Clarinet player, pianist performing at Trinity Lutheran
Alin Melik-Adamyan and Boris Allakhverdyan.
Alin Melik-Adamyan and Boris Allakhverdyan will perform in concert on April 3
– The North San Luis Obispo County Concert Association is offering a 3 p.m.concert on April 3, 2022 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Paso Robles. The featured musicians are Boris Allakhverdyan, principal clarinet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Alin Melik-Adamyan, a prize-winning collaborative pianist, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician.
Allakhverdyan was appointed Principal Clarinet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2016. He previously served as Principal Clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Associate Principal Clarinet of the Kansas City Symphony. Allakhverdyan is a founding member of the Prima Trio, the Grand Prize and Gold Medal winner of the prestigious 2007 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Allakhverdyan has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle, Bakersfield, and Springfield symphony orchestras. He has participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, the Mecklenburg- Vorpommen Festival in Germany, and the Emilia Romagna Music Festival in Italy. Allakhverdyan is a winner of the Rimsky- Korsakov International Woodwind Competition, the Rozanov International Clarinet Competition, the Hellam Concerto Competition, and the Tuesday Musical and the Oberlin Concerto competitions.
An active educator, Allakhverdyan served on faculty at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, Interlochen Clarinet Institute in Michigan, and Philadelphia International Music Festival. He has given master classes at Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oregon University, University Missouri-Kansas City, Truman State University, Latin American Clarinet Academy in Caracas, Venezuela and Shenzhen International Music Festival in Shenzhen, China. As a chamber musician, Boris Allakhverdyan has performed throughout the United States and Europe on such series as Chicago Chamber Music Society, La Jolla Athenaeum, Dumbarton Oaks, the Dayton Art Institute, CityMusic Columbus, Da Camera Society, Fontana Chamber Arts, and Cleveland Chamber Music Society, to name a few.
Pianist Melik-Adamyan is a prize-winning collaborative artist, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Praised for a “sensitivity unique in the piano world” (The Musical Gourmet), Alin has won numerous competitions and scholarships, including the YMF/ASCAP Leiber & Stoller Scholarship, first prize at the Los Angeles Liszt International Competition, and first prize at the William Grant Still Young Artists Competition, among many others. She has also appeared as a soloist with various orchestras throughout California.
An avid collaborative pianist, Melik-Adamyan has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in their 2020/21 season, with LA Phil Concertmaster Martin Chalifour, cellist Coleman Itzkoff as the Amicus Duo, cellist Taeguk Mun, and many others. Her collaborative work has also given her the opportunity to work with world-renowned musicians, including Ralph Kirshbaum, Pamela Frank, Jeffrey Kahane, and the late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen. Most recently, Alin had the honor of working with Steven Spielberg and John Williams as the live pianist and hand double in Spielberg’s upcoming film The Fabelmans (2022).
A native of Los Angeles, Melik-Adamyan began her piano studies at the age of four. She studied with Carl Matthes for 12 years and entered the USC Thornton School of Music in 2008 to study with Kevin Fitz-Gerald. She earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Piano Performance, and, in May 2018, completed a Doctorate in Keyboard Collaborative Arts as an Outstanding Graduate. She is currently a full-time staff pianist at El Camino College in Torrance, California.
Formed in 1948, the North SLO County Concert Association is a non-profit 501(c)(3) association, whose mission is to “foster an appreciation of the musical arts by presenting a concert series of a minimum of four professional concerts by national and international artists not, otherwise available in our community.”
The single ticket price is $25 at the door or click here for information about season passes.
Comments
