Interview with Alexander Chaushian

Chaushian, Alexander

Interviewee: Chaushian, Alexander

Year of Production: 2015

Playing Time: 00:04:23

Catalogue Number: DAK015-04

Prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow and the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Munich, internationally acclaimed soloist Alexander Chaushian, is one of the foremost cellists of his generation, regularly performing at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Suntory Hall and the Carnegie Hall.

A graduate from the The Yehudi Menuhin School, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Mr. Chaushian has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the OSR - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

His chamber music partnerships have included concerts with Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Yuja Wang, Julia Fischer, Levon Chilingirian, Yuri Bashmet, Diemut Poppen, Francois-frederic Guy, Emmanuel Pahud and the pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, with whom he has made several critically acclaimed recordings for BIS Records. He is the cellist of the Tchaikovsky Trio alongside Pavel Vernikov and Konstantin Bogino.

Alexander Chaushian is a Cello Professor at the Royal College of Music and the artistic director at the Orpheus and Bacchus Festival in Bordeaux, The Pharos Arts Foundation Festival in Cyprus and the Yerevan international Music Festival in Armenia.