FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT with Protégés Diana Adamyan & Zitong Wang

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Diana Adamyan Violin, Past Protégé

Diana Adamyan is quickly gaining an international reputation as one of her generation’s most outstanding violinists. After winning the First Prize at the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the world’s most prestigious prize for young violinists, she went on to receive First Prize in the 2020 Khachaturian Violin Competition.

In summer 2022, Ms. Adamyan made her debut at the Aspen Festival performing Dvorak with Lionel Bringuier, and with the Boston Pops Orchestra performing Mendelssohn at Boston Symphony Hall. This season, she returns to the Göttinger Symphonieorchester to perform Beethoven, and the Niederbayerische Philharmonie in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She will also make her debut performing Sibelius with the Staatsorchester Darmstadt, and performing Beethoven with the Bruckner Orchester Linz in Munich’s Prinzregententheater, and will return once more to the Göttinger Symphonie in Dvorak. Recent and upcoming engagements also include recitals in Tokyo and France, and her debut with the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester at the Philharmonie in Berlin.

Since winning First Prize at the Menuhin Competition, Ms. Adamyan has received numerous proposals to participate in the concerts around the world, from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, to the Seiji Ozawa Academy in Switzerland, and the Matsumoto International Music Festival in Japan. Following an invitation from Maestro Pinchas Zukerman to participate under his guidance in summer masterclasses of the Ottawa National Arts Center, Ms. Adamyan was invited to appear as a soloist in Gala Concert of NAC, alongside Mr. Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Jessica Linnebach, and other renowned musicians. Later, she also appeared alongside Mr. Zukerman playing the Bach Double Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Born in 2000 in Yerevan, Armenia, into a family of musicians, Ms. Adamyan currently studies at the Munich University of Performing Arts with world-renowned teacher, Professor Ana Chumachenco, whose distinguished students have included Lisa Batiashvili, Julia Fischer, and Veronika Eberle. Previously, she studied at the Tchaikovsky School of Music (Yerevan) with Professor Petros Haykazyan and at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory with Professor Eduard Tadevosyan.

Ms. Adamyan is the recipient of a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and under the patronage of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and “YerazArt” organization in Boston. She performed on a violin crafted by Urs Mächler for the Menuhin Competition, and now performs on an instrument made by Nicolò Gagliano in 1760, generously on loan from the Henri Moerel Foundation.

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Zitong Wang Piano, Past Protégé

Zitong Wang’s authenticity, bravura, and sensitivity have enchanted audiences over the years, particularly so at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, where she claimed the Bronze Medal and the Krystian Zimerman Award for the Best Performance of a Sonata.

In her most recent season, she has taken the stage at prestigious venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk, and the Shanghai Symphony Hall, among others, where her performances won ardent reception.

In 2026, her engagements include appearances at at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Kyoto Concert Hall, and Seoul Arts Center for the Chopin Competition Laureates Tour. Her China recital tour, starting in April, brings her back to Beijing, where she made her solo debut at age thirteen.

Born into a family of piano educators, Wang is pursuing her graduate studies with Dang Thai Son at the New England Conservatory. At an early age, she studied with Hua Chang and Yuan Sheng at the Central Conservatory of Music. Entering the Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship, she was mentored by Meng-Chieh Liu and the late Eleanor Sokoloff. Almost becoming a harpsichordist, she studied historical performance practice as a secondary major with Leon Schelhase and took a philosophy course at the University of Pennsylvania. This affinity led to an invitation from Trevor Pinnock to perform on original harpsichords from the antique Karen Flint Collection.

She has shared the stage with major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the New Jersey Symphony, NEC Philharmonia Orchestra (Boston), the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio. She has collaborated with conductors including Jahja Ling, Xian Zhang, Antoni Wit, Andrzej Boreyko, Anthony Hermus, Lina González-Granados, Hugh Wolff, Daniel Smith, Darrell Ang, and Yang Yang.

Not just a soloist par excellence, she is also an active chamber musician, performing with artists including David Shifrin, Roberto Díaz, Soovin Kim, and Gloria Chien, as well as ensembles such as the Isidore Quartet and Curtis Ensemble 20/21. She was selected as a Protégé Project Artist at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, where her performances received wide recognition. She also interprets contemporary music, working closely with composers such as Unsuk Chin, Bright Sheng, David Ludwig, and Alvin Singleton.

Prior to the Chopin Competition, she won Sixth Prize and the Special Prize for the Performance of Contemporary Works at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. She also received First Prize in the 33rd Ferrol International Piano Competition and the “Nelson Freire Prize” for the Best Performance of a Work by Chopin (2022).

She has been featured on Deutsche Grammophon Stage+, Medici TV, Amadeus TV, WRTI, WHYY-TV, and All Classical Radio. Her performances from the Chopin Competition are featured on an album released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute as part of its Blue Series of competition recordings in 2026.

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