Samvel Alumyan

Samvel Alumyan was a Soviet and Armenian pianist and teacher. He was born on May 3, 1941, in Yerevan, in a family of engineers.

In 1948 he entered the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan, where he studied in the class of S. A. Apoyan and later with A. V. Aykazyan. From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the piano class of Yakov Flier, and in 1966 he completed postgraduate studies under Flier's supervision.

From 1966 to 1968 Alumyan worked at the Yerevan Conservatory. In 1968, at Yakov Flier's invitation, he moved to Moscow and began teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1973 he led his own class while also working as Flier's assistant. He trained more than 30 students and contributed to the development of such pianists as Mikhail Pletnev and Nikolai Kogan.

As a performer, he appeared as a soloist and ensemble musician, and from 1967 he toured abroad. He was the initiator of the concert series Piano Fantasies.

Alumyan was a prize-winner at international piano competitions, including the Bedrich Smetana Prague Spring Competition in Prague in 1963, where he received third prize, and the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest in 1967, where he won first prize. He died in 1987 in Bucharest and was buried at the Armenian Cemetery in Moscow.

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