3:00pm Sunday April 14, 2024
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto
Artun Miskciyan, piano; Julia Mirzoev, violin, Braden McConnell, cello.
program includes:
Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 1
Glinka: Trio Pathétique
Miskciyan: Selections of Works for Solo Piano
Arensky: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32
Artun Miskciyan, began playing the piano at the age of six in Istanbul. In April 2010, he participated in the Pera International Piano Competition and received the “Best Baroque Interpreter Prize”. Same year, he also participated in the National Chopin Piano Competition in Ankara, where he received the “Polish Embassy Special Prize”. He moved to Canada with his family in 2011 and continued his piano studies at the RCM. Engagements include Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 with the Camerata Belliniana as a winner of the AmiCa Fest Concerto Competition in Italy, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra for the fundraising of SISTEMA Toronto. Since graduation, he has given many recitals at various concert venues, including the Zorlu Performance Centre in Istanbul, Turkey. He has released numerous recordings on Spotify and Apple Music. He made his Koerner Hall debut in 2022, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 with Sinfonia Toronto under the baton of Maestro Nurhan Arman.
Violinist Julia Mirzoev received her M.M. degree at the Yale School of Music, studying with Ani Kavafian, where she received the Broadus Erle graduating prize. Julia has been featured on CBC’s “Top 30 Classical Musicians Under 30”, CBC radio 94.1, and classical 96.3 FM. Her awards include top prizes at the Irving M. Klein international competition, the OSM competition, and grand prize at the Canadian Music Competition. Julia has also performed as a soloist with the Montreal Chamber Music Festival’s orchestra, Scarborough Philharmonic, Sinfonia Toronto, the Canadian Sinfonietta, the University of Toronto Symphony, Orchestra Toronto, and the Toronto Symphony. A passionate chamber musician, Julia has been a winner of the Yale Chamber Music competition, and has participated in the Sarasota, Manchester, and Toronto festivals, and the Perlman Music Program. As a founding member of the Myriade String quartet, Julia has been a quarter finalist at the Trondheim and Wigmore Hall string quartet competitions. Recently, Julia received an Artist Diploma at the McGill Schulich School of Music studying with Andrew Wan, where she was awarded the Golden Violin prize. Ms. Mirzoev is managed by “Boulev’Art Artists Management”.
Braden McConnell is a graduate student at McGill University, studying cello with Brian Manker. Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, Braden began playing the cello at the age of four. While studying with Susan Moses at the Indiana University String Academy, Braden toured Brazil and Argentina with the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi and performed at Carnegie Hall with Gilles Apap. Braden earned first prize at the David Popper International Cello Competition in Várpalota Hungary. He has also won first prizes in the McGill University Concerto Competition, the Sigma Alpha Iota Competition and the Cleveland Cello Society Competition. A National Merit Scholar, Braden received a triple degree in Cello, Mathematics, and Economics from the University of Michigan, where he studied cello with Richard Aaron.