HAMLET AMBARZUMJAN

Pianist

"Strong poetic imagination paired with a fine sense of agogics and timing, a naturally breathing phrasing, and the ability to create wide narrative arcs – these are rare qualities that recall the great romantic pianists of the past."
– Jury statement for the Leonard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize for Music 2019

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Hamlet Ambarzumjan is a concert pianist, chamber musician, and prizewinner of international piano competitions.

At the German Music Competition 2026, he was awarded a scholarship from the German Music Council (Concert Promotion Program) as well as the Special Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. He is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. He is currently studying at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Gottlieb Wallisch. Previously, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Silke Avenhaus, where he was supported by the Deutschlandstipendium.

In 2019, he was awarded the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize of the City of Munich and received a piano duo scholarship from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation. In the same year, he was an academy participant of the TONALi cultural project in Hamburg.

As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the North German Philharmonic Rostock as part of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and the Munich Chamber Philharmonic. Radio and television appearances have taken him to BR Television, BR-Klassik, and SWR, among others. An invitation from conductor Péter Csaba led him to the Festival Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, where he performed both as a soloist and chamber musician.

Together with his brother, the clarinetist Adam Ambarzumjan, he forms the Duo Hamlet & Adam. Their concert series “Neustart Konzerte” was supported in 2021 by a grant from the German Federal Government and GVL.

Born in 1999 in Wolgast, he received his first musical training from Martina Hussmann and was supported at an early age by the Bavarian Music Council’s program for young talents. He has received important artistic inspiration from, among others, Prof. Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Prof. Bianca Bodalia, Prof. Eldar Nebolsin, Herbert Schuch, Prof. Bernd Glemser, and Prof. Hortense Cartier-Bresson.

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