Ruben Kosemyan

Ruben Kosemyan is a Canadian violinist soloist born in Armenia.
Studies
At the age of four he began studying violin under the guidance of his father Alexander Kosemyan (Violist with the State Komitas quartet) and Tatyana Hayrapetyan in Special Music School after Tchaikovsky. At age of 9 he played Mendelssohn and Mozart violin concertos with orchestra. A year later Ruben played in "Palace of Congresses" of Moscow city. In 1987 he moved to Moscow to continue his musical education at the Moscow State Conservatory with professor Maya Glezarova.
Kosemyan has attended master-classes under the guidance of Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrach, Tibor Varga, Ruben Aharonyan (First violin of State Borodin quartet), Jean Ter-Merguerian, Ivan Monighetti, Eduard Tatevosyan, Dominique de Williencourt, Ruggiero Ricci and J. Heifetz's student Adam Han-Gorski. In 1997 he was granted the prestigious Vladimir Spivakov scholarship.
Career
In 1998 Kosemyan began teaching violin and chamber ensemble classes at the Yerevan State Conservatory, and in 2000 he was selected as head of the department of classical music at the "House of Music and Culture", Kish Island.
Kosemyan has appeared with concerts in Armenia, Germany, France, Iran, USA, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Malaysia, Russia and Georgia performing the Brahms double concerto, violin concertos of Khachaturian, Saryan, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, Mozart, Bruch, Bach, Hairapetyan and many others.
In 2005 Kosemyan founded the Piano Trio. In October 31/2007, he was awarded a gold medal, "UNESCO Aram Khachaturian Centenary" by the "Composers Union" of Armenia.
In 2009 Ruben was invited to join the "Khachaturian" State quartet as first violin, where he worked until 2010. Since 2010, Kosemyan has been living in Canada where he's organized a group of professional musicians for live performances and recordings of classical, romantic and some modern music.
He made his Canadian debut with Canadian conductor Nurhan Arman and "Sinfonia Toronto" in world known Glenn Gould Studio, later in Koerner Hall (Toronto).
In 2013, Ruben was invited to record music for a Canadian documentary "Lost Rivers".
In 2015 he received Canadian Citizenship.
Ruben Kosemyan continues to perform as a soloist with the orchestras on the multiple stages throughout Canada and abroad.
Ruben Kosemyan's new CD "Aram & Karen Khachaturian. Music for Violin and Piano" was released in November 2018.
In 2020, in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, the first collection of transcriptions for violin and piano by Ruben Kosemyan was published by "Music Planet" Publishing House. The release was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster Komitas, and includes the transcriptions of works by Komitas, as well as F. Liszt, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Rachmaninoff. Collection and piano part was edited by pianist Natalya Mnatsakanyan.
The next album of Ruben Kosemyan, entitled "W.A. Mozart. Violin Sonatas & Rondos" was released in 2020 by the well-known "Da Vinci Publishing" label.
The CD was recorded with pianists Natalya Mnatsakanyan and Margarita Grigoryan.
The new Cd with Ruben's recordings has appeared in 2021, released by "La Mà de Guido" label.
This time it includes works by M. Castenuovo-Tedesco, E. Bloch, C. Debussy, M. Ravel and E. Hayrapetyan.
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