Success for HfMT pianists

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Gevorg Matinyan, bachelor student in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, has won 2nd prize at the 10th Maria Herrero International Piano Competition in Granada, Spain.

Vita:

Gevorg Matinyan, born in 2002 in Yerevan, is an Armenian pianist. He started playing the piano at the age of seven at the "Sayat-Nova" music school. He continued his musical career at the specialized music school named. P.Chaykovski. From the age of eleven, he was accompanied in piano studies by Villi Sargsyan, a distinguished Armenian artist, and Areg Sargsyan, a teacher. Since 2012, he has given over ten solo concerts in Armenia, Germany and the USA and participated in the "New Names" International Festival of Young Musician-Performers (Yerevan, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017). He has also performed with the Gyumri State Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra in Yerevan and the Kuban Symphony Orchestra in Krasnodar, Russia. At the age of ten, he was awarded a prize at the 13th Munich Piano Podium of Youth International Competition, as well as the "Junior Prize". In 2013 and 2017 he won 2nd prize at the A. Babajanyan International Competition-Festival for Young Pianists in Yerevan, Armenia. He won a diploma and a special prize "Promising young performer" at the XII International F. Chopin Piano Competition in Narva, Estonia. This was followed in 2019 by The Sixth International Junior Performance Competition "Where art is born" in Krasnodar, Russia, where he won first prize and Grand Prix. At the age of 16, he passed the entrance exam at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with the highest score and is currently studying Bachelor Instrumental Music with a major in piano with Professor Hubert Rutkowski.