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VC Artist and Violinist Diana Adamyan is quickly gaining an international reputation as one of her generation’s most outstanding violinists. After winning the First Prize at the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the world’s most prestigious prize for young violinists, she went on to receive First Prize in the 2020 Khachaturian Violin Competition.

In Summer 2022, Diana made her debut at the Aspen Festival performing Dvořák with Lionel Bringuier, and with the Boston Pops Orchestra performing Mendelssohn at Boston Symphony Hall. In the 2022/23 season, she returned to the Göttinger Symphonieorchester to perform Beethoven, and the Niederbayerische Philharmonie with Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She also made her debut performing Sibelius with the Staatsorchester Darmstadt, and performed Beethoven with the Bruckner Orchester Linz in Munich’s Prinzregententheater, and returned once more to the Göttinger Symphonie with Dvořák. She has performed recitals in Tokyo and France and debuted with the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester at the Philharmonie in Berlin.

Since winning First Prize at the Menuhin Competition, Diana has received numerous proposals to participate in concerts around the world, from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London to the Seiji Ozawa Academy in Switzerland, and the Matsumoto International Music Festival in Japan. Following an invitation from Maestro Pinchas Zukerman to participate under his guidance in summer masterclasses of the Ottawa National Arts Center, Diana was invited to appear as a soloist in the Gala Concert of NAC, alongside Mr. Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Jessica Linnebach, and other renowned musicians. Later, she also appeared alongside Mr. Zukerman playing the Bach Double Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Painting by VC Artist Diana Adamyan

Born in 2000 in Yerevan, Armenia, into a family of musicians, Diana studied at the Tchaikovsky School of Music (Yerevan) with Professor Petros Haykazyan and at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory with Professor Eduard Tadevosyan. She continued her studies at the Munich University of Performing Arts with world-renowned teacher Professor Ana Chumachenco, whose distinguished students have included Lisa Batiashvili, Julia Fischer, and Veronika Eberle. Diana was also selected to study with Pinchas Zukerman as a participant at the NAC Summer Music School and with Leonidas Kavakos, in association with the DakApp Foundation.

In 2022, Diana was awarded a scholarship by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In the same year, she also came under the patronage of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the "YerazArt" organization in Boston. She performed on a violin crafted by Urs Mächler for the Menuhin Competition, and now performs on an instrument made by Nicolò Gagliano in 1760, generously on loan from the Henri Moerel Foundation.

Painting by VC Artist Diana Adamyan