Narine Yengibaryan

Narine Yengibaryan was born in 1965 in Yerevan. She received her initial musical education from 1971 to 1983 at the Yerevan P.I. Tchaikovsky Secondary Music School, in the class of musician-pedagogue Yelena Sahakyants.

Later, she received and continued her higher education at the piano department of the Komitas State Conservatory in the class of one of the famous pianist-pedagogues of the time, Prof. Rozaliya Tandilyan, first as a student, and from 1991 to 1993 as a postgraduate student at the professional piano department. Later, she taught as an assistant professor at the same department until 2003.

Her subsequent teaching activities were related to the orchestral department of the conservatory. Since her school days, Narine has had an active concert activity in the form of individual performances, collaborations with various orchestras, participation in international competitions, and charity concerts, including a performance of J.S. Bach’s F-moll Piano Concerto with the Sayat-Nova Music School Orchestra (1998), a performance of F. Chopin’s piano works at the concert organized within the framework of the UNDP «Gender and Politics» program in the South Caucasus (2005), a solo concert with the performance of piano works by Schumann, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin in Yerevan (2006), concert performance of W.A. Mozart’s Sonnet for two pianos D-Dur together with the famous pianist Sedrak Yerkanyan (2009, Yerevan), Concert performances of J.S. Bach’s BWV 1060 and 1062 concertos for two pianos with the «Tagharan» ensemble (2014), within the framework of the J. Brahms International Competition, a concert performance of works by J. Brahms, A. Khachaturian, G. Hovunts’ violin-piano duet (2015, Pörtschach am Wörther See — Austria), a concert performance of J.S. Bach’s D-moll concerto together with the State Chamber Orchestra of Armenia — conductor Vahan Mardirossian (2018, Yerevan).

In 2018, Narine accompanied the concert performances of young Armenian musicians Arzas Voskanyan (violin) and Mikael Voskanyan (cello) as part of the «Bridges of Friendship» event organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lithuania-Armenia friendship (Lithuania, Kaunas).  This was followed by two lectures in the same city, «Vardapet Komitas» and «Prof. Y. Zargaryan’s Methodology of Piano Art» (2019), which attracted great interest among the Lithuanian musical community, as well as the honorary presidency of the jury of the parallel «The first international contest festival». April 2021 – Concert performance of M. Kokzhayev’s “Concertino A La Blues” with the State Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (conductor, Prof. R. Asatryan) as part of the “Works of Contemporary Armenian Composers” concert.

Narine Yengibaryan’s participation in charitable programs related to the concert series initiated by Yerevan State Conservatory Professor A. Budaghyan for the promotion and dissemination of classical music in remote regions of Armenia (2006-2009), the series of charity concerts initiated by the Belgian NAF charity organization supporting children suffering from kidney failure in Armenia in the Kingdom of Belgium in 2010, etc. is a matter of great pride. 

In November 2022, at the National Center of Chamber Music, Narine gave a solo concert dedicated to the works of Frédéric Chopin, performing four Ballades, Waltzes, the Grand Polonaise, and the Fantaisie-Impromptu. In April 2023, she took part in the “Meeting” concert series alongside Mikhail Kazinik, Boris Kazinik, and Irina Patsevina, with performances held in Yerevan and Dilijan.

In May 2024, Narine appeared as the leading pianist in two concerts with Mikhail Kazinik at the Aram Khachaturyan Concert Hall — “Wonderful Adventures of Music” (for children) and “Secret Symbols of Culture”. Her contribution continues to enrich the world of music and culture.  

Currently, Narine continues her active pedagogical activity at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory’s Department of Symphonic Conducting as a concertmaster and, since September 2020, as a lecturer at the Department of General Piano.