Candlelight Concert: Soler's World – Sonatas & Fandango of Antonio Soler
In person: $35 advance, $40 at the door | Online: $15
Hayk Arsenyan, a NYC-based concert pianist and scholar of Iberian early music, offers a series of masterclasses, lectures, solo piano performances of Soler’s controversial Fandango and piano sonatas in an hour-long program, and book presentations of his newly released book in Spanish El Mundo De Soler ("Soler’s World") published by the Boileau Editorial de Musica in Barcelona (May 2022).
About Hayk Arsenyan
New York-based pianist Hayk Arsenyan has appeared in numerous recitals throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas; in venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Salle Cortot (Paris), Cadillac-Shanghai Concert Hall (China), Kumin Hall (Tokyo), Petranka Mozarteum (Prague), Auditorio Delibes (Valladolid), Dar-Al-Assad Opera House (Damascus), Sala Cervantes (Havana), MoBU (Sao Paolo), Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), and the Philippines National Museum (Bacolod); and televised recitals at the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, the Phillips Collection Series in Washington, DC, and at the Nixon Presidential Museum in Los Angeles.
At the age of 11, Mr. Arsenyan made his debut at the Armenian Philharmonic performing his own Requiem for the piano and orchestra. At the age of 17, he made his European debut as a soloist with the Radio France National Philharmonic Orchestra and was awarded a platinum medal by the City of Paris. In 2007, Mr. Arsenyan debuted at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall performing with Pinchas Zukerman and the Manhattan Chamber Sinfonia.
A long-time professor at NYU Tisch School, Dr. Arsenyan has presented guest lectures and masterclasses at universities and conservatories around the globe, such as University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, the Hong Kong University, Waseda University in Tokyo, Manhattan School of Music in NY, University of Texas in Austin, and National Conservatory in Damascus. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa and a Master's degree from the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow. In 2007, he received a full-tuition Yevgeny Kissin award for Professional Studies at Manhattan School of Music in New York. Mr. Arsenyan also studied the piano at École Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.