JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

In 2001, Rima Chacaturian earned a diploma and a special prize for the best performance of Latvian composer's work in the International Young Pianists Competition Jurmala - 2001. In 2002, she won the first prize the international competition - festival "Music Without Limits’’ in Druskininkai. In 2003, became laureate in national J. S. Bach Piano Competition in Vilnius. In 2008, she participated in the international "Nordic Piano Competition” in Malmo (Sweden) and won the First Prize (a Blüthner Model 6 grand piano) and a special prize for the best performance of O. Messiaen work. In 2009, she won I prize in IX Lithuanian Composers’s Chamber Music Competition.
Rima Chacaturian participated in various festivals in Lithuania and Europe –“Summer with piano music” in Druskininkai, “Interpretations of young generation”, “Christopher Summer Festival”. In 2009 she participated in “Birmingham International Piano Academy” in England and in “Academie musicale de Villecroze“ in France.

Rima Chacaturian has played with Jurmala’s and Kaunas chamber orchestras. She had concerts in Germany, Sweden, England, France. Rima Chacaturian participated in masterclasses with famous professors – D.Merlet, P.Donohoe, J.Lowenthal, N. Seriogina, V.Nosina and others.

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche