Tsovinar Suflyan
Biography Tsovinar Suflyan
Tsovinar Suflyan
Born in Yerevan in 1989, the Armenian pianist Tsovinar Suflyan began playing the piano at the age of five and eventually completed professional studies at the Yerevan State Conservatory with Prof. Sergey Sarajian. A scholarship from the Fondation Elmas (Delémont, Switzerland) enabled her to continue her studies with Prof. Konstantin Lifschitz in Lucerne from 2012, where she completed a master's degree in performance and pedagogy. In addition to her studies, she attends international master classes, including with Hamish Milne, Ashley Vose, Vladimir Kraynev and Philip Cassard.
In addition to her work as a piano teacher, Tsovinar Suflyan performs as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician in various countries in Europe, South America as well as in Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Iran. These include multiple invitations to music festivals such as “Moscow meets Friends” (Kremlin Palace of Arms, Moscow), the Ethel Smyth Festival “On the Road” or the “International Festival of Arts” (National Gallery, Yerevan). She founded the “Duo Sonori” with the Swiss trumpeter Urs Itin in 2017 and shortly afterwards won the “Philip Jones Brass Prize”. She has received further prizes as a soloist from, among others, the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation for talented musicians, the “International Contest of Young Pianists” (Tbilisi, Georgia) and the “Concours d’exécution musicale pour jeunes pianistes Stephan Elmas” (Yerevan, Armenia).
Since 2017, Tsovinar Suflyan has been a pianist at the Richard Wagner Museum Lucerne, where she regularly performs in private and public settings on Wagner's original Erard grand piano from 1858. In the summer of 2020 she was hired for exclusive recordings and professional video production.
In the summer of 2023, Tsovinar recorded her debut CD with sound engineer Andreas Werner. The album with works by 3 Armenian composers – Komitas Vardapet, Aram Khachaturyan and Arno Babadshanyan will be released in early 2024 under the Prospero Classcial label.
