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PERFORMERS:
Oleg Prykhnenko (piano)
Olga Golubeva (organ)
Levon Karapetian (piano)
Tatiana Alkuati (harp)
Michel Tirabosco (Pan flute)
Vasily Belyavin (oboe)
Anastasia Shcheglova (soprano)
Alexander Zhuikov (baritone)
Oleg Krikun (tenor)

Angelina Bychkova (soprano)
Violetta Lukyanenko (soprano)
Anna Kiknadze (mezzo-soprano)

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich

PROGRAMME:
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto in D Major (1^st movement)

Alexandre Guilmant
Organ Symphony (1^st movement)

Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 (1^st movement)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute and Harp Concerto in C Major, KV 299

Pablo de Saraste
Concert fantasy on themes from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen for Pan flute and orchestra

Antonio Pasculli
Concert fantasy on themes from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La favorite for oboe and orchestra

Léo Delibes
“Flower Duet” from the opera Lakmé

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Papageno and Papagena’s duet from the opera Die Zauberflöte

Giuseppe Verdi
Alfredo and Violetta’s duet (Brindisi) from the opera La traviata

About the performers

Levon Karapetyan (piano)
Levon Karapetyan was born in 1989 in Yerevan in a musical family. From 2004-2007 Levon Karapetyan studied at the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatoire in the class of Sergey Qechek. In 2014-2015 he undertook a postgraduate study at the Strasbourg Music Academy (classes of Professor Amy Lin and Professor Laurent Cabasso). In 2014-2015 Levon took master-classes with renowned pianists Boris Berman and Bernard d'Ascoli. His first CD was released in the USA in 2010. Since 2011 Levon has been a member of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Foundation.
Prizes include a 2004 diploma at the Vladimir Horowitz Republican Competition. In 2005 he was a prize-winner at the Alexander Spendiaryan Republican Competition. In 2013 he won the Youth Award of the President of the Republic of Armenia. Has played concerts in Armenia and internationally.

Age category 6+