Yury Surenovich Ayrapetyan (Yuri Ayrapetian) |

Yury Ayrapetian

Yuri Hayrapetyan is one of the prominent representatives of the modern performing culture of Armenia. Many of their artistic achievements were achieved by the national republics with the help of the oldest Russian conservatories, and Hayrapetyan’s path in this sense is quite typical. After studying in Yerevan with R. Andriasyan, he was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1956 in the class of Y. V. Flier. Over the next years (until 1960), the Armenian pianist improved under the guidance of Ya. V. Flier in graduate school. During this time, he achieved notable success, becoming the winner of the competition at the V World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw (second prize) and the International Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels (1960, eighth prize).

Since then, Hayrapetyan has been actively involved in concert activities. In his diverse repertoire, the compositions of Beethoven and Liszt (including the Sonata in B minor) occupy a particularly significant place. Among his major works are also sonatas by Mozart, Chopin, Medtner, Prokofiev, Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. In symphony evenings, he performs concertos by Mozart (No. 23), Beethoven (No. 4), Liszt (No. 1), Tchaikovsky (No. 1), Grieg, Rachmaninoff (No. 2, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini), A. Khachaturian. Hayrapetyan constantly includes music by composers of today’s Armenia in his programs. In addition to the works of A. Khachaturian, here you can name “Six Pictures” by A. Babajanyan, preludes by E. Oganesyan. Sonata by E. Aristakesyan (first performance), miniatures by R. Andriasyan. Yuri Hayrapetyan’s performances attract the attention of listeners both in Moscow and in many other cities of the country. “He is a brightly temperamental pianist with very good virtuosic abilities,” writes V. V. Gornostaeva in Soviet Music.

Hayrapetyan has been teaching at the Yerevan Conservatory since 1960 (professor since 1979). In 1979 he received the academic title of professor. Since 1994 he has been a professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. From 1985 to the present, Hayrapetyan has been giving master classes in Russian cities, near and far abroad countries (France, Yugoslavia, South Korea, Kazakhstan).

Yuri Hayrapetyan has repeatedly performed with orchestras conducted by outstanding conductors of our time (K. Kondrashin, G. Rozhdestvensky, N. Rakhlin, V. Gergiev, F. Mansurov, Niyazi and others), as well as in the author’s concerts of A. I. Khachaturian under the direction of the author . The pianist performs both solo programs and piano concertos in the cities of the former USSR (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Minsk, Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas, Vilnius) and many foreign countries (USA, England, France, Germany). , Holland, Iran, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Sri Lanka, Portugal, Canada, South Korea and others).

Grigoriev L., Platek Ya., 1990