Naregatsi Chamber Music Society & Alexander Chaushian

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“National Gallery” International Music Festival

On Friday May 11^th, the members of “Naregatsi Chamber Music Society” participated at “National Gallery”, the third international Music Festival.

The members played compositions from Vivaldi & Schubert with famous Cellist Alexander Chaushian (Great Britain).

A few days after the concert, A. Chaushian gave master classes with the musicians of NCMS.

Alexander Chaushian

Alexander Chaushian started to play the cello at the age of seven, studying with his grandfather Alexander Chaushian Sr and Zare Sargsian.

From 1992 to 1995, he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Melissa Phelps and from 1995 to 1999 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a student of Oleg Kogan.

In 2003 he pursued advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with the late Boris Pergamenschikow and later with David Geringas, graduating with distinction in 2005.

Alexander Caushian won First Prize in 1990 Premio Mozart Competition in Verona, Italy and in 1992, First Prize in the International Music Competition in Holland.

In 1997, he was awarded the Orchestra of New England Soloist Prize, as well as the first Summis Auspiciis Prize of Young Concert Artists in New York. In 2002 was awarded third prize in the 12^th International Chaikovsky Competition in Moscow. As a Soloist with Orchestra, Alexander Caushian has performed in many countries worldwide, including appearances with Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz, as well as with the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal National Orchestra of Belgium, Les Solistes European de Luxembourg in a gala concert conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

From 2002 until the present he has acted as the artistic director of the Orpheus & Bacchus Festival in Bordeaux, France and of the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus. Alexander Chaushian has collaborayed with many distinguished musicians such as Levon Chilingirian, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Ani and Ida Kavafian, David Geringas and Phillippe Cassard. He has also performed together with Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer at the Kronberg Chamber Music Festival.