Nareh Arghamanyan

Nareh Arghamanyan (Նարե Արղամանյան; born in Vanadzor, Armenia, 1989) is an Armenian pianist.

Her first major recognition came at the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in Salt Lake City in 2000 where, at the age of 11, she was the 2nd Prize winner, predicted by critics to have “a major international career” and praised for her virtuosity and sense of artistry.

Recitals in 2003 brought Ms. Arghamanyan to New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington DC, and in 2002, highlight engagements included those with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, in Moscow, and with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia in Yerevan and Berlin.

She has made several recordings, including two for Pentatone, one with Liszt's two piano concertos, and another of piano pieces by Rachmaninov.

She also recorded Rachmaninov's second piano sonata and Liszt's B minor piano sonata for Analekta.

In 2004, she became the youngest student to be admitted to the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and studied with Heinz Medjimorec.

In 2004 she was a soloist with the Mont Blanc Symphony France in the Grieg Piano Concerto.

In 2005 she won the Josef Dichler Piano Competition in Vienna, and the following year was awarded a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.

In 2006 she appeared in the Chamber Music San Francisco Music Series under the auspices of the Guzik Foundation.

Arghamanyan has been the 1st Prize recipient at the 2007 Piano Campus International Competition in Pontoise, France and took the second Prize at the 2007 Jose Roca International Competition in Valencia, Spain.

She is best known for winning the 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition.

Arghamanyan began her piano studies at the age of five.

At the age of eight, she entered the Tchaikovsky Music School for Talented Children in Yerevan, where she studied with Alexander Gurgenov.

In 2008, Arghamanyan won the Montreal International Music Competition.

In 2009 and 2010, Arghamanyan performed in several cities throughout the United States, including Miami, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Juan, San Francisco, and Fresno.

She also performed at the Frick Collection in New York City.

Arghamanyan has performed with the Mont Blanc Symphony France, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic, and the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia.

Arghamanyan attended the Marlboro Festival in 2010 and 2011, as well as the Tanglewood music festival, Domaine Forget Quebec, the Festival International de Lanaudière and at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Arghamanyan also performed with the Orchestre Metropolitan under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Vienna Symphony the Bregenz Festival 2011 under Xian Zhang, as well as the Vancouver Symphony with James Gaffigan.