Emma Tahmizian
Emma Tahmizian ( born December 13, 1957 in Plovdiv ) is a Bulgarian- American pianist.
Life
She grew up as the youngest daughter in an Armenian family. Their ancestors had fled during the First World War to Bulgaria and settled in Plovdiv. Her first piano lessons she got there at the Special School of Music at Penka Petkova. At age 8 she already won the first prize at the National Festival for instrumentalists of Bulgaria and represented her country at the age of eleven a Festival of Contemporary Music in Moscow. In 1975, she began studying piano at the State Conservatory in Sofia with Julia and Konstantin Ganev Ganev. In parallel, they successfully took part in master classes and international piano competitions.
An extensive concert activities, inter alia, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic led them to many countries in Europe, Asia and America.
In 1984 she moved to participation in the International Van Cliburn Piano Competition over to the U.S. and continued her studies at the Juilliard School in New York with Adele Marcus continued.
In addition to numerous concerts as a soloist with orchestras and in various chamber music ensembles, she taught at Lawrence University, Wisconsin, and master classes as the " Bowdoin Summer Festival ".
The New York composer Sebastian Currier dedicated her several works, including his First Piano Concerto, which she brought in April 2007 for the premiere.
Recordings
- Piano Sonatas, Op 31 No 3 and Op 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Balkanton Records, Sofia 1984
- Theo's Sketchbook of Sebastian Currier, New World Records 1992
- Sonata Opus 94 for Flute and Piano, inter alia, by Sergei Prokofiev, with Laura Gilbert, Koch International, Munich 1993