Anahit Chaushyan

Anahit was born into the fourth generation in a family of professional musicians and started musical training from the age of five. Anahit studied at the Tchaikovsky Music School under Irina Grigorian and at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory under Professor Villy Sargsyan. While studying in Armenia, she had given numerous recitals there; many of her early performances included compositions by contemporary Armenian composers.

Anahit graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles under Evgeny Mogilevsky and from the Royal Academy of Music (Dip RAM) in London under Pascal Nemirovski, winning several prizes in both institutions. She is a recipient of the Diploma d’Onore at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Anahit is a Laureate of the Emmanuel Durlet International Piano Competition in Antwerp, Belgium.

Her studies were complemented by master classes from the likes of Paul Badura-Skoda, Michele Campanella, Lazar Berman, Lev Naumov, and Stephen Hough. In London, she held recitals and chamber music performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Anahit has also performed at the Santori Hall in Tokyo, the Grande Salle du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, and the Gavot Hall in Paris.

Anahit has made numerous concert appearances with the London Soloists Orchestra and has regular performance engagements with the Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra. She is the founder of the Fugata Quintet, UK, an ensemble with an unconventional instrumentation inspired by Astor Piazzolla’s original compositions and which plays music of all periods. She has also adjudicated at various international piano competitions and given masterclasses in Armenia. Anahit is currently a professor of piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School.