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

VITA DE / EN

The award-winning pianist Hamlet Ambarzumjan was born in Wolgast and began his piano lessons at the age of six. Trained by Martina Hussmann, he was soon supported by the talent promotion program of the Bavarian Music Council. This led to numerous successes and prizes at the national level as well as in international piano competitions. He received important musical impulses from, among others, Prof. Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Prof. Bianca Bodalia, Prof. Eldar Nebolsin, Herbert Schuch, Prof. Bernd Glemser, and Prof. Hortense Cartier-Bresson.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Da Capo Chamber Philharmonic Munich, the Zorneding Baldham Symphony Orchestra, the Siemens Orchestra Munich, and the North German Philharmonic Rostock as part of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Hamlet Ambarzumjan has also appeared on radio and television, for example, in an interview on the "Abendschau" on BR television and in a radio feature on BR Klassik.

In the duo Hamlet & Adam, he regularly performs with his brother, the clarinetist Adam Ambarzumjan. In 2021, the brothers' initiative "Neustart Konzerte" was awarded a scholarship from the Federal Government and GVL and was supported by numerous cultural offices and institutions.

Since 2017, he has studied at the Munich University of Music with Prof. Silke Avenhaus and was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium. In 2019, he received the Cultural Award of the City of Munich, the "Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize," and a piano duo scholarship from the "Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation Stendal." He was also an academy participant in the cultural project TONALi 2019 in Hamburg. Since 2021, he has continued his bachelor’s studies at the University of the Arts Berlin with Prof. Gottlieb Wallisch.

In 2022, he made his debut in the Herkulessaal in Munich and at the Stadttheater Amberg with Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto. That same year, conductor Péter Csaba invited him to the renowned "Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander" festival, where he performed as both a soloist and chamber musician at several concerts in Santander and the surrounding area.

Since 2023, he has been a scholarship holder of the Oscar Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg.

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