Medea Abrahamyan

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Medea Abrahamyan

Birth name Medea Abrahamyan

Born March 8, 1932

Yerevan, Transcaucasian SFSR

Died March 3, 2021 (aged 88)

Yerevan, Armenia

Occupation(s) cellist

Instruments cellio

Medea Abrahamyan (Armenian: Մեդեա Աբրահամյան; 8 March 1932 – 3 March

2021) was an Armenian cellist, People’s Artist of Armenian SSR (1980) and Professor
of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1983).

Contents

 1Biography
 2Awards
 3Bibliography
 4References
 5External links

Biography[edit]
Medea Abrahamyan was born in 1932 in Yerevan. She received her musical education
at the ten-year Tchaikovsky Music School of Yerevan and later at Yerevan Komitas
State Conservatory. In 1956, she graduated from Tchaikovsky Moscow State
Conservatory and was one of the students of world-famous cellist Mstislav
Rostropovich. She is a recipient of awards at the Vihaan International Festival of Arts
(2nd Prize, 1955), the First Youth Festival of Armenia (1st Prize, 1957) and the Moscow
All-Union Competition for Cellists (1st Prize, 1961).
Medea Abrahamyan’s art has been admired and warmly received by people in
numerous countries around the world,
including France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Iceland, Korea, the United
States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Syria, Lebanon, the republics of the former USSR
and more. Alongside her performances of the works of classical and contemporary
composers, the works of Armenian composers for the cello form a major part of the
extensive list of performances by Medea Abrahamyan. Moreover, she has been the one
who has performed most of these works for the first time, and those works have been
created with her direct participation and have been dedicated to her. [1]
Alongside her concerts, Medea Abrahamyan has also lectured at