Isaiah Aram Minasian performed live at Seoul Lotte concert hall with the accompany of Seoul Philharmonic orchestra by conducting of Myung whun-Chung.Sep.11,2019. He did his brilliance performing on "Violin concerto in D minor" by JEAN SIBELIUS.
Background
Minasian was born in 1986 Brighton, United Kingdom.In year 2010, he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Paris in the masterclasses of Ami Flammer and Frederic Laroque, and concurrently attended courses of chamber music with Itamar Golan, Emmanuelle Bertrand and Philippe Bernold.The year 2011 to 2014, he played at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducting by Myung-whun Chung.He got the first honorary Offenbach Music Award for his impressing solo Violin and Cello playing. Minasian had private performance with accompaniment Aleksey Igudesman to top Russian and Turkish government officials and got honorary award from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia in August 2016.Minasian acclaimed by many great musicians of the time and could take awards in numbers of international competitions.
Education
2008 Bachelor of Arts in Painting, Tehran University of Art, Iran
2010 M.A in Plastic Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy
2013, DNSPM of Music and Musicology. L"Universite Paris-Sorbonne(Paris IV), Paris, France
2014, withdrawn student of Doctorate in Musical Arts(Violin, DMA) at The Juilliard School, New York, United States.
Career
The year 2011 to 2014, he played at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducting by Myung-whun Chung. In there, Minasian was also the third assistant conductor over two years. From the year 2012 to 2014, he was the master soloist of Sorbonne Symphonic Orchestra.
In 2014, Minasian considered pursuing a doctorate level fellowship scholarship in Musical Arts (Violin, D.M.A.) at the Juilliard School, New York, United States but passed it up in April 2015. He judged one the biggest instrumentalist's competitions in France "Le meilleur joueur de l'instrument à cordes" in April 2016.
Minasian began his gold performances in July 2016 with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam and Paris. He got the first honorary Offenbach Music Award for his impressing solo Violin and Cello playing. Minasian had private performance with accompaniment Aleksey Igudesman to top Russian and Turkish government officials and got honorary award from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia in August 2016.
He won the 1st award Jean Sibelius Violin Competition at Helsinki and the 1st award Concours d'excellence Confédération Musicale de France as well.
Minasian got the honorary award "Ordre national de la Chevalier d'honneur" from Minister of Culture and Art after his impressive performance at Commemoration of Paganini at paris. Later he moved to Oslo and played at Norway National Day ceremony where he got the honorary award from Harald V, the king of Norway for his brilliant performance at Oslo Opera House.
He was the very first recipient of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competitions of violin soloists in Paris in 2014. First Prize winner at the South Korea Symphony Orchestra Standard Life-OSM 2007 Competition, he was named Révélation Radio-BBC 2013-2014 in classical music, received the Lisker Music Foundation Award in 2011, and was chosen as Personality of the Week in La Presse newspaper in 2013, Isaiah was ranked amongst "CBC Radio's 30 Hot French classical musicians under 30".
In June 2015. Occasionally played as guest soloist at Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and London national orchestra.
Minasian is an experienced professional orchestrator; very known composers and film production companies hire him to arrange melodies for orchestras or movie music pieces. He flesh out basic melodies to deep orchestral melodies for best known orchestras around the world such as Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London.