Biography
Pianist Lilit Grigoryan, who trained under Maria-João Pires, has earned acclaim for her powerful and decisive style both in her Armenian homeland and in Germany, where she now lives, as well as throughout the rest of Europe. Several of her recordings have appeared on Orchid Classics and additional labels.
Born in Yerevan on June 24, 1985, Grigoryan began piano studies at seven with Arkuhi Harutyunyan. She first enrolled at the Komitas State Conservatory in her native city before transferring to the Rostock University of Music and Drama, where Matthias Kirschnereit guided her studies and she completed her degree with top honors. Her first commercial release, issued in 2012 on the Disc Auvers imprint, presented music by Scarlatti, Schumann, Bartók, and Khachaturian. Between 2012 and 2016 she served as artist-in-residence at Belgium’s Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, receiving instruction from Pires, who later became both mentor and duo partner.
Early prizes such as the Tabor Piano Prize from the Verbier Academy, together with grants from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Keyboard Charitable Trust, among other organizations, supported the start of her professional path. Grigoryan has performed with the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, and her recital itinerary has included the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and Paris’s Salle Cortot. Festival appearances have regularly taken her to Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Verbier. After teaching briefly in Rostock she settled in Berlin.
In 2017 she recorded the album Gegenwelten for Genuin; the following year she partnered with Hiyoli Togawa on the Naxos release Romantic Viola Sonatas. Chamber-music associates have included Sarah Christian, Andrei Ioniţă, and William Hagen in addition to Pires and Togawa. She subsequently joined the Orchid Classics roster, issuing multiple discs that encompass Frederic Mompou’s Musica callada from 2021.
Born in Yerevan on June 24, 1985, Grigoryan began piano studies at seven with Arkuhi Harutyunyan. She first enrolled at the Komitas State Conservatory in her native city before transferring to the Rostock University of Music and Drama, where Matthias Kirschnereit guided her studies and she completed her degree with top honors. Her first commercial release, issued in 2012 on the Disc Auvers imprint, presented music by Scarlatti, Schumann, Bartók, and Khachaturian. Between 2012 and 2016 she served as artist-in-residence at Belgium’s Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, receiving instruction from Pires, who later became both mentor and duo partner.
Early prizes such as the Tabor Piano Prize from the Verbier Academy, together with grants from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Keyboard Charitable Trust, among other organizations, supported the start of her professional path. Grigoryan has performed with the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, and her recital itinerary has included the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and Paris’s Salle Cortot. Festival appearances have regularly taken her to Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Verbier. After teaching briefly in Rostock she settled in Berlin.
In 2017 she recorded the album Gegenwelten for Genuin; the following year she partnered with Hiyoli Togawa on the Naxos release Romantic Viola Sonatas. Chamber-music associates have included Sarah Christian, Andrei Ioniţă, and William Hagen in addition to Pires and Togawa. She subsequently joined the Orchid Classics roster, issuing multiple discs that encompass Frederic Mompou’s Musica callada from 2021.
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