The Long Bay Symphony Master Class
By Carolyn Pitman
Narek Hakhnazaryan
A cello master class with guest artist, Narek Hakhnazaryan, will be held on Jan. 30 in the Choir Room at Trinity Episcopal Church at 3000 N. Kings Hwy. from 4:30– 6:30 p.m. This opportunity for young cellists from the Long Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra to perform and receive instruction is sponsored by the Toby Evans and Long Bay Symphony Guild Scholarship Fund. The event is free and open to the public.
Narek Hakhnazaryan will be the featured soloist for The Long Bay Symphony’s concert “Classical Masters” to be held on January 31st at 4 p.m. at the Myrtle Beach High School Music and Arts Center. Mr. Hakhnazaryan will be performing Cello Concerto in C by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan won First Prize in the 2008 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, bringing him two important debuts in the Young Concert Artist Series: in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, sponsored by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, and at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre in Washington, DC.
Born into a family of musicians in 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia, Mr. Hakhnazaryan’s father is a violinist and his mother is a pianist. His early studies were at the Sayat-Nova School of Music in Yerevan. At the age of 12, young Narek began studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexey Seleznyov. Working with Lawrence Lesser, Mr. Hakhnazarayan is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music, the only musician to be selected this year for this prestigious program. He plays a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume cello, circa 1860, on loan to him from the Ravinia Festival.
