Astrig Siranossian

Born in Lyon on December 19, 1988 into a family of music lovers of Armenian origin, Astrig Siranossian began her musical studies at the Romans-sur-Isère music school, where her father Alexandre Siranossian was director. While her sister Chouchane Siranossian chose the violin, she took up the cello at an early age, entering the Lyon Conservatoire at the age of eight, then the Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur, where she graduated with honors at the age of eighteen. She continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel (Switzerland) in Ivan Monighetti's class, obtaining two masters degrees. Having already performed in public many times and won several prizes, including the Antonio Janigros Competition (2012) and a first prize at the Penderecki Competition (2013), Astrig Siranossian enters the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Waterloo and pursues her career internationally. In the same year, she recorded a Poulenc - Fauré - Komitas program with pianist Théo Fouchenneret, which won the Musica Prize, and three years later, cello concertos by Khatchatourian and Penderecki, conducted by Adam Klocek. These achievements for the Claves label were followed by her first solo album for Alpha Classics, the recital Dear Mademoiselle - A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger (2020), a tribute to the composer and teacher. Following her participation in pianist Diana Ciocarlie's collective album Bubbles, the cellist joins forces with Kuwaiti conductor Nabil Shehata for the Saint-Saëns program : Cello Concerto - Bacchanale - Symphonie No. 1 (2021). In 2022, her third album for Alpha Classics, Duo Solo, features J. S. Bach's Suite for Solo Cello, BWV 1007 interspersed with traditional Armenian tunes, Zoltán Kodály's Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915) and György Ligeti's Sonata for Solo Cello (1953). Since 2016, Astrig Siranossian has been artistic director of the "Musicales" festival in Romans-sur-Isère.

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