ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN

Born in 1977 Alexander Chaushian started to play the cello at the age of seven. From 1992 to 1995 he studied with Melissa Phelps and from 1995-1999 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a student of Oleg Kogan. From 1999 – 2001 he has participated in the Kempf Trio and in 2003 he received a fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in London and began pursuing advanced studies with the late Boris Pergamenschikow and, afterwards, with David Geringas at the Berlin Music Academy.

He won First Prizes in the 1990 Premio Mozart Competition in Salzburg, and the International Music Competition in München. In 2001 he was the joint recipient of the Pierre Fournier Award and in 2002 was awarded third prize in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Alexander Chaushian has performed as a soloist with several orchestras which include the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, The London Mozart Players, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, The Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields, Les Solistes Européens de Luxembourg conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, The Boston Pops Orchestra, and The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

He has collaborated with Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Philippe Cassard, Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kemer.