Background
Marianna Shirinyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia on September 25, 1978.
Marianna Shirinyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia on September 25, 1978.
She commenced her musical studies at the age of seven when she attended the Tchaikovsky music school in her home town, under the guidance of Margarita Hakobian. Finally, she completed her studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Konrad Elser in 2007, finishing with top grades.
In 1997, she went on to study with Igor Javrian at the Komitas Music College in Yerevan, and two years later with Mathias Weber in Hamburg. Shirinyan"s artistic advisers in recent years have been Elisabeth Leonskaya and Leif Ove Andsnes.