Mikael Ayrapetyan
Mikael Ayrapetyan
Mikael Ayrapetyan is a pianist, composer and producer. He is also the founder and artistic director of the music project Secrets of Armenia, which aims to increase international awareness of Armenian classical music, and actively organises concerts featuring Armenian music in venues around the world, for which he is producer, artistic director and pianist. Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. His recording of Eduard Bagdasarian’s piano and violin music [GP664] earned a five-star rating from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanian’s 24 Preludes [GP760] was praised as a “discovery” by both Classica and Piano News.
piano
Yulia Ayrapetyan
Yulia Ayrapetyan is a US-based pianist, producer and teacher. She has performed across the United States, Europe, Russia, Armenia and China. She actively supports and participates in recordings and concerts for her husband Mikael Ayrapetyan’s project, Secrets of Armenia. Yulia Ayrapetyan has actively studied various musical and pedagogical systems, and in 2012 created and implemented her pedagogical methodology for children, based on accessibility, ease of perception and individual approach.
cello
Demian Fokin
Cellist Demian Fokin began studying music at the age of five under the guidance of his parents. At the age of 17 he entered the Youth State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, where he made his debut as a soloist with the orchestra conducted by Román Revueltas Retes. Fokin leads an active creative life, having performed across Europe in such prestigious venues as the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music, the Great Hall of the Gnessin Academy, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, Théâtre Mogador in Paris and DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen.
violin
Vladimir Sergeev
Vladimir Sergeev started to learn the violin at the age of six, and when he was 17, he was awarded First Prize in a regional competition for young violinists, and in 2000 entered the Academic Music College of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a student of People’s Artist of Georgia M.L. Yashvili, with whom he also studied with at the Moscow Conservatory. Sergeev focuses on the popularisation of Armenian classical music worldwide. Together with Mikael Ayrapetyan he has performed in the most prestigious halls in Russia, and has recorded Armenian classical repertoire. Sergeev has performed across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
