FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION APRIL 2012 CONCERTS 16.03.2012
MARIANNA
SHIRINYAN, PIANO. These concerts will be on Wednesday April 11th and Saturday April 14 th., 2012. The program on Saturday will feature pieces by Franz Schubert, Alban Berg and Frédéric Chopin while the Wednesday program will have music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Komitas Vardapet, Carl Nielsen and Franz Liszt.
MARIANNA SHIRINYAN was born in 1978 in Yerevan, Armenia. She started her music studies at the Tchaikovsky music school in Yerevan when she was seven. She went on to study in Hamburg and completed her studies with top grades at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in 1997.
Marianna has received considerable acclaim in many competitions. In 1994 she was placed first in the Youth Chamber Music Competition in Paderborn. In 2001 Marianna received both the top prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Possehl Music Award. The next year she won the 1st prize of the International Lion’s Competition. She was the highest prize winner at the “Premio Vittorio Gui” chamber music competition in Florence.
“We are lucky to have her in Denmark” presenters, audience and critics exclaim. Since she won 5 prizes at the prestigious ARD competition in 2006 Marianna has been establishing herself as an international concert pianist and chamber musician as well as teaching in the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She has performed with philharmonic orchestras, on radio and television and in regular chamber music festivals. The Danish Music Critics’ Association awarded Marianna their annual prize in 2009. The next year Marianna was awarded the special P2 Artists Prize by Danish Radio. During this year Marianna will be recording all the Mozart concertos with the Odense Symphony Orchestra for Bridge Records.
Listen to Marianna on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Z2ACh1Tmo and on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTsq0dpjOb0
For more information about the concert program please see www.centroculturalsaolourenco.com
Concerts at the Centro Cultural begin at 7.30pm sharp. Doors open at 6.30pm and wine and lemonade is served from 7.00pm. During the interval wine and canapés are served. Entry is €25 for guests and non-members. For concert
bookings please call Marie at 289395475 or
send an e-mail to ccsl@iol.pt
The AMIGOS is an
international group of around 110 members who support the musical activities at the Centro Cultural by underwriting the concerts.
For more information please visit the AMIGO’s website www.amigos-de-musica.org
MAY 2012 CONCERTS. THE GAUDI QUARTET. These concerts will be on Tuesday May 22nd. and Saturday May 26th., 2012.
ABOUT THE AMIGOS AND THE CENTRO CULTURAL SÃO LOURENÇO
The Centro Cultural São Lourenço is located next to the historic Church of São Lourenço, near Almancil, and its exhibitions by well-known artists and sculptors is open to private viewing. It is now in its Thirtieth Year. The AMIGOS celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2010.