HAMLET AMBARZUMJAN
Pianist
Pianist
Hamlet Ambarzumjan is a concert pianist, chamber musician, and prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions.
Since 2025, he has been a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), and since 2023, of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Gottlieb Wallisch, with whom he also completed his bachelor’s studies. Prior to that, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich under Prof. Silke Avenhaus, where he was awarded a Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship).
In 2019, Ambarzumjan received the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize of the City of Munich as well as a Piano Duo Scholarship from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Stendal. In the same year, he was an academy fellow of the cultural project TONALi in Hamburg.
His debut with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 took place in 2022 at the Herkulessaal in Munich and at the Stadttheater Amberg. Following this, he was invited by conductor Péter Csaba to the renowned Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander festival, where he performed both as a soloist and chamber musician.
As a soloist, he has appeared with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock as part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as with the Da Capo Kammerphilharmonie München, the Sinfonieorchester Zorneding-Baldham e.V., and the Siemens-Orchester München e.V..
He has also been featured on radio and television, including on the Abendschau of Bavarian Television (BR) and in broadcasts on BR-Klassik.
Together with his brother, clarinetist Adam Ambarzumjan, he forms the Duo Hamlet & Adam. Their initiative “Neustart Konzerte” was awarded a federal scholarship from the German government and the GVL in 2021, and has been supported by numerous cultural institutions and public foundations.
Born in Wolgast, Hamlet Ambarzumjan began playing the piano at the age of six. Early on, he was supported by the Bavarian Music Council’s program for gifted young musicians and studied with Martina Hussmann. He received further artistic inspiration from Prof. Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Prof. Bianca Bodalia, Prof. Eldar Nebolsin, Herbert Schuch, Prof. Bernd Glemser, and Prof. Hortense Cartier-Bresson.