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Isaiah Aram Minasian | |
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 Minasian at Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany, 2021 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 28 February 1986 Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Origin | British/Armenian |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Violin, viola, cello |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Isaiah Aram Minasian (born 28 February 1986), is a British violinist, cellist and orchestrator.
Minasian born in to a musical family. His mother Maria Salari was a proficient violinist and cellist, his grandfather was a classical pianist. Minasian began playing violin on the training of his mother at a very early age. In year 2010, he moved to Paris and entered the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Paris in the masterclasses of Ami Flammer and Frederic Laroque, and concurrently attended courses of chamber music with Itamar Golan, Emmanuelle Bertrand and Philippe Bernold. [1] Afterwards he continued his studies on music at Sorbonne school of Music and Musicology, [2] where he was awarded to continue his studies at Juilliard School of music and dance, in New York City.
The year 2011 to 2014, he played with Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Myung-whun Chung. [3] Minasian was also the third assistant conductor of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France over two years. Meantime he was the master concert of Sorbonne Symphonic Orchestra in Paris.
In 2014, Minasian considered pursuing a doctorate level fellowship scholarship in Musical Arts (Violin, D.M.A.) at the Juilliard School, but passed it up in April 2015. He judged one of the highest priority instrumentalist's competitions in France "Le meilleur joueur de l'instrument à cordes" in April 2016.
After passing an inactive period in live appearances, Minasian began his performances in July 2016 with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam and Paris. He got the first honorary Offenbach Music Award for his solo violin and cello playing. Minasian had private performance with accompaniment Aleksey Igudesman to top Russian and Turkish government officials and got honorary award from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, in August 2016. The days after, he was chosen to be Moscow Symphonic Orchestra' soloist in the Victory Day celebration in Moscow.[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
He won the first prize of the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition at Helsinki and the first prize in the Concours d'excellence Confédération Musicale de France as well.[ citation needed ]
Minasian got the honorary award "Ordre national de la Chevalier d'honneur" from Minister of Culture and Art after his performance at Commemoration of Paganini at Paris. Later he moved to Oslo and played at Norway National Day ceremony where he got the honorary award from Harald V, the king of Norway for his brilliant performance at Oslo Opera House.[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
He was the first recipient of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competitions of violin soloists in Paris in 2014. First prize winner at the South Korea Symphony Orchestra Standard Life-OSM 2007 Competition, he was named Révélation Radio-BBC 2013–2014 in classical music, received the Lisker Music Foundation Award in 2011, and was chosen as Personality of the Week in La Presse, the Montreal newspaper in 2013, Isaiah was ranked amongst "CBC Radio's 30 Hot French classical musicians under 30".[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
He occasionally played as guest soloist at Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and the National Symphony Orchestra (in London).[ citation needed ]
Minasian is an experienced professional orchestrator; well-known composers and film production companies hire him to arrange melodies for orchestras or movie music pieces. He fleshes out basic melodies to deep orchestral melodies for best known orchestras around the world such as Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London.[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
He plays on a "Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa" violin from Treviso dated 1763 and one labelled as "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis" dated 1726 (£1.000,000). along with a "G.B. Guadagnini" violin loaned to him by Museo del Violino in 2019.[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
Minasian is currently composer-in-residence at the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, South Korea. He is selected as the musical ambassadors of peace and headed to Vancouver, Canada, to select talented musicians through auditions in UBC school of music.[ This paragraph needs citation(s) ]
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