Pianist Karine Poghosyan to Perform Schubert and Liszt at Puffin Cultural Forum, 1/24

The Armenian-American pianist Kariné Poghosyan will be paying tribute to Schubert and Liszt on Sunday, January 24 at 4pm when she performs a concert for the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Ms. Poghosyan's program will explore the intriguing connection between the two composers showcasing selected Piano Transcriptions of Schubert songs by Franz Liszt. Also featured will be Schubert's Four Impromptus, Op. 90 and the Wanderer Fantasy. Liszt will also be represented with performances of his Transcendental Étude No. 10 and the Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 12.

The Puffin Cultural Forum, a project at of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. is the gallery and performance space located at 20 Puffin Way in Teaneck, New Jersey. The Puffin Foundation deeply believes in the crucial role that the arts play in shaping consciousness, and the role of artists as agents of social change. The Foundation's governing motto is "... to continue the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people."

The Puffin Cultural Forum serves as a community outreach arm for the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. The organization is a resource for the public schools, offering arts workshops, guided gallery tours, and theater presentations concerning important issues of our time. It strives to bring thoughtful, socially-relevant, and provocative arts programming to all of northern New Jersey's diverse areas in its surrounding communities in the form of art exhibitions, music, dance, theater, author interviews, workshops, film series, lectures and dialogues.

A $10 donation is suggested. For reservations go to tix@puffinfoundation.org. The Puffin Cultural Forum is located at 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, New Jersey. Visit puffinculturalforum.org or call 201.836.3499 for information and travel directions.

The Armenian pianist Kariné Poghosyan has been praised for her ability to get to the heart of the works she performs. She made her orchestral debut at fourteen playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23, and has since gone on to win numerous awards as well as performing in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls. Recently, she helped organize the "Requiem and Resurrection" concert in commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York. During the 2014-15 season, Ms. Poghosyan made her Washington D.C. debut, in addition to her Toronto, Canada debut where she gave the Canadian premiere of Alan Hovhanes's Piano Concerto "Lousadzak." Other performance highlights included solo recitals in Montgomery, New York, and Richmond, Virginia, as well as performing Khachaturian's Piano Concerto with the Greater Newburgh (NY) Symphony under the baton of Woomyung Choe. Ms. Poghosyan's musical studies began in her native Yerevan in Armenia at the School of the Arts No. 1, continuing at Romanos Melikian College and the Komitas State Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat, and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude, from California State University in Northridge under Françoise Regnat, and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at Manhattan School of Music under Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in a record-breaking two years with a thesis on Aram Khachaturian's works for piano. She is currently based in New York, where she teaches at Manhattan School of Music.

Ms. Poghosyan recently returned from a tour to Vienna, Austria and Yerevan, Armenia, where she performed to rave reviews the music of Aram Khachaturian featured on her CD, "Khachaturian Original Piano Works and Ballet Transcriptions," at the Armenian Embassy (Vienna) and at the Khachaturian House Museum (Armenia). This CD, "Khachaturian Original Piano Works and Ballet Transcriptions," was released on the NAXOS label this past April and has been accepted in the first round submission for a Grammy nomination.

PROGRAM:

PIANIST KARINÉ POGHOSYAN TO PERFORM

Works by Schubert and Liszt

SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2016, AT 4PM

Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, New Jersey

SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, Op. 90

SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy

LISZT Piano Transcriptions of Schubert Songs

LISZT Transcendental Étude No. 10

LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12

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