Sona Igityan

Born into a family of artists, Sona Igityan started studying the piano when she was seven years old, at one of the best music schools in Yerevan, her hometown. She was lucky enough to become a student of an exceptional teacher, Venus Haroutunian. Thanks to her first teacher, Sona acquired a particularly deep and smooth sound as well as a supple piano technique. Three years later, she gave a remarkable performance of Bach’s piano concerto in G minor with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia.

Sona was selected for broadcasting on National Radio at the age of twelve and won the prize for the best performance at the New Names Festival in Yerevan at the age of seventeen. Sona was advised by renowned teachers such as Willy Sarkisyan in Armenia, Elisabeth Athanassova, Michel Kiener, Jean-Jacques Balet, and Paul Coker in Switzerland, and Paco Moya in Spain.

She obtained her soloist and chamber music diplomas at Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan in 1996 and at Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2007. At the age of 14, she began her concert career and, since then, has performed as a soloist and also as a chamber musician in different cities in Armenia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.

In Switzerland, she regularly plays in musical events such as Musique en été in the Old Town of Geneva, the Piano Festival Concertus Saisonnus, Festival du Jura, Fête de la Musique de Genève, 20heures de Musique in Romont, Geneva La Primaire gallery, PianoFest Moudon in Vaud.

Sona Igityan’s repertoire includes different periods and styles, from baroque to contemporary music. Having a sound preference for modern music, she often ensures the performance of pieces by contemporary composers such as Ashot Zohrabian, Edouard Sadoyan, Karl Haydmayer, and Shauna Beesly. Although Sona is interested in various forms of artistic expression, such as theater, cinema, and literature, music is above all a kind of religion and tells the absolute truth.