As part of the launch of her third solo album, Présence lointaine, the pianist Sofya Melikyan will give a concert with the complete repertoire of this new musical project on Thursday 2 November at 8 p.m. on the stage of the Theatre of the Instituto Francés in Madrid.
The concert will be preceded by a brief talk-presentation between Juan Manuel Viana, music journalist and broadcaster on Radio Clásica and Canal March, and the performer Sofya Melikyan.
After two very different albums -one dedicated to Granados and Mompou and the other to contemporary international female composers- September saw the release of the pianist’s latest work, a fascinating recording inspired by the illustrious Spanish pianist and composer Ricardo Viñes. Friend of Picasso, Rusiñol, Bonnard, Gide, Valéry and Cocteau, interpreter of Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud, Granados and Falla, dedicatee of numerous compositions, responsible for a huge number of premieres and outstanding figure of the Parisian intellectual scene between the 19th and 20th centuries, Viñes was the leading pianist of the avant-garde of the time. With this disc, Sofya Melikyan vindicates his figure and explores this repertoire of Franco-Spanish music, demonstrating once again that she is a virtuoso performer whose great technical finesse and sensitivity guide her interpretations.
Born in Yerevan, she began her training there at the Tchaikovsky School of Music with Anahit Shajbazyan. She continued her studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Joaquín Soriano, obtaining the Premio Extraordinario de Honor Fin de Carrera, and with Brigitte Engerer in Paris. She completed postgraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Solomon Mikowsky. The programme of the concert can be consulted at this link, and can be booked here.
