Marianna Shirinyan

Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan (b. 1978) trained as a pianist at Komitas State Conservatory of Music in Yerevan, Armenia, and at the Lübeck Academy of Music, Germany.

Teaching

Marianna has been a professor of piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo since 2015. At the same time she has been loosely affiliated with RDAM, and has been appointed visiting professor as of the academic year 2021-2022.

“My main motivation is to help students to achieve high professional quality, musical sincerity and openness, and the basis for this is the student’s curiosity and musical knowledge. It is my task to equip each student with the best possible tools, and that requires me to make efforts to perceive and find their personal and professional strengths. In addition, the recruitment of talented students from both Denmark and abroad is important to create a diverse study environment. A sense of healthy competition can also be encouraging and motivating for students. In addition, it is also important for me to prepare them for life after the Academy” – Marianna Shirinyan

Artistic practice

Marianna is one of the most creative and sought-after pianists in Europe today. Her lively and virtuoso music means she is in great demand, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Shirinyan plays with great sensitivity, understanding, technical brilliance and a beautiful tone, which allows her to embrace a wide repertoire.

Marianna has established herself as one of the leading pianists of her generation, and has performed as a soloist with the leading Scandinavian orchestras, including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Umeå Symphony Orchestra, the Odense and Aarhus symphony orchestras and the South Denmark Philharmonic.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she is a frequent guest at major international festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Bergen International Festival and MDR Musiksommer, and she has worked with such conductors as Zoltán Kocsis, Hans Graf, Jun Märkl, Antonello Manacorda, Thomas Søndergård, Krzysztof Urbański and Joshua Weilerstein, amongst others.

Marianna is Artistic Director of Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival and Co-Artistic Director of Valdres Summer Symphony in Norway.

From 2013 to 2014 Marianna was house artist with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, and from 2014 to 2016 with DiamantEnsemblet. Since 2013 she has also been a ‘Steinway Artist’.

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