Nikolay Madoyan

Nikolay Madoyan (Armenian: Նիկոլայ Մադոյան; born June 1, in Yerevan[1]) is an Armenian virtuoso violinist. Madoyan's continuous performance of 59 world classics of different styles and epochs has been entered in the Guinness World Records book as an “Officially Amazing” achievement.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Nikolay Madoyan
Background information
BornJune 1, 1973
Yerevan, Armenia
Occupation(s)Violinist
Years active1990–present
LabelsKontrapunkt

Cowbell Music

Ambitus Musikproduktion
Websitehttps://nikolaymadoyan.com/

He studied with Hrachya Bogdanyan, Zakhar Bron, Miriam Solovieff and Isaac Stern.[9] and has been awarded the title of the Merited Artist of Armenia for supreme mastery and excellence in the promotion of arts.

Early life and education

Nikolay Madoyan was admitted to the Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan, where he studied under the patronage of professor Hrachya Bogdanyan. Impressed by the 13-year-old talent, Russian violin professor Zakhar Bron invited Madoyan to continue his studies at the Novosibirsk Glinka Conservatory. In the following years Madoyan won the 1st Prize at the All-Russian Competition for Young Violinists and became the laureate and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at the International H. Wieniawski and K. Lipinski Competition for Young Violinists in Poland.[10]

Together with Prof. Bron's wunderkind class, at the invitation of the Lübeck Music Academy, Madoyan moved to live and study in Germany where he made a debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. Nikolay Madoyan appeared in the “Five Young Russian Top Talents” series along with V. Repin, M. Vengerov, N. Luganski and E. Kissin, playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto at the famous Concertgebouw Amsterdam and other European venues.

In 1991, Madoyan won the 1st Prize at the International Kullenkampf Competition of Violinists in Cologne, Germany. Moreover, he became the laureate at the Tokyo International Competition of Violinists and was awarded the Special Prize for the Best Performer of the Japanese Work.

Madoyan took master classes from outstanding violinists Isaac Stern and Miriam Solovieff and for years he would perform together with Isaac Stern in France and other countries.

Nikolay Madoyan holds Ph.D. degree in Violin Performance from Berlin University of the Arts and was bestowed the title of the “Honorary Professor” at the Yerevan State Conservatory.[11]

Career

After graduating from the Lübeck Academy, Nikolay Madoyan launched series of concert tours in Germany with the London Mozart Players chamber orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert. Then he had concert in the United Kingdom with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, where among other works he played the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto conducted by Arnold Katz.. Madoyan's performances with the Netherlands and Rotterdam Symphonic Orchestras and Cologne Chamber Orchestra were in the highlight of the local media.[12] Madoyan was the founder of the “Madoyan-Westenholz-Denitzen” trio, which successfully toured around Europe, featuring works by Shostakovich, Schubert, Beethoven and Ravel.

A collaboration of Nikolay Madoyan and the pianist Elizabeth Westenholz resulted in CDs, released by Kontrapunkt and Cowbell, featuring violin sonatas by Mendelson, Grieg, Schubert, Prokofiev, Strauss and Franck. In European newspapers and magazines reviews were written about Madoyan's CD records, among them The Strad and Gramophone reviews, which specifically highlighted successful collaboration and the releases of Prokofiev's, Grieg's, and Schubert's Violin Sonatas as one of the best.[13]

Madoyan is well known for his virtuoso performance of technically challenging and very large music pieces. Madoyan performed all six Paganini's Violin Concertos, playing them by memory in one concert.

Nikolay Madoyan's innovative method of muscle balancing technique during play helped him to deliver a continuous performance of the complex classical and folk compositions lasting more than 33 hours with five-minute breaks every hour, so becoming The Guinness World Records breaker.

Nikolay Madoyan has been bestowed with the title of the “Honorary Professor” of the Yerevan State Conservatory. In 2003 Madoyan received the President Prize of The Republic of Armenia for the best performance of the fifteen violin miniatures created by the 17–20 centuries outstanding composers.[14]

Performances

Madoyan's repertoire includes an extensive range of violin works. He has performed with a number of world's best symphony orchestras and conductors such as Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Richard Hickox, Kurt Mazur, Frans Brüggen, Claudio Abbado, Arnold Katz, Dmitri Kitayenko, Valery Gergiev,[15] Leopold Hager, Richard Dufallo, Karen Durgaryan, Kees Bakels, Nikolai Alekseyev, Vasily Sinaisky, Erich Vechter, George A. Albrecht, Janos Furst and many more.[16]

The list of the concert halls he performed at includes Teatro di San Carlo, Tivoli Concert Hall,[17] Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Festival Hall, Verdi Theater in Milan,[18] Berlin Kammermusiksaal, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Edinburgh Queen's Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Hamburg Musikhalle, Stuttgart Beethoven Hall, Duesseldorf Robert-Schumann-Saal, Vienna Kammermusiksaal, Reims Concert Hall, Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgrade Philharmonia, Tokyo NHK Hall, Beijing Big Concert Hall, Montreal Place des Arts, Zurich Tonhalle, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall,[19] Kuhmo Concert Hall, Big Concert Hall of Moscow Conservatory[20] and many more.

Prizes and awards

Prizes
  • 1988 – Laureate and Special Prize winner of Spectators and Journalists at the IV International H. Wieniawski and K. Lipinski Competition of Young Violinists
  • 1988 – 1st prize in the All Russian Violin Competition (Novosibirsk, Russia)
  • 1991 – 1st prize in the International Kulenkampf Competition of Violinists (Cologne, Germany)
  • 1992 – Laureate and Special Prize winner for Best Performer of the Japanese Work at Tokyo International Competition of Violinists (Tokyo, Japan)[10]
  • 2003 – President Prize of the Republic of Armenia For the high performance of 15 violin miniatures of outstanding composers of 17–20 centuries[21]

Awards
  • 1995 – Medal of the Coat of Arms of the City of Yerevan
  • 2004 – Merited Artist of Armenia
  • 2004 – Gold Medal of the Ministry of Culture, Armenia
  • 2017 – Guinness World Record – The Longest Violin Performance, “Officially Amazing” – 33 hours, 2 minutes and 41 seconds, England[22]

Discography
  • 1990: Die Meisterschüler von Zakhar Bron. (N. Madoyan, D. Garett, M. Vengerov, V. Repin). Label Ambitus Musikproduktion[23]
  • 1994: Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas / Five Melodies. Label Kontrapunkt[24]
  • 1995: Grieg: Violin Sonatas. Label Kontrapunkt[25]
  • 1997: Mendelssohn-Bartoldy: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano. Label Kontrapunkt[26]
  • 1998: Schubert: Works for Violin and Piano. Label Kontrapunkt[27]
  • 2000: Cesar Franck: Sonata F Major / Richard Strauss: Sonata E Flat Major. Label Kontrapunkt[28]
  • 2007: Favourite Encores. Label CowBell Music[29]
  • 2008 - 2018: Recordings have been released and published by ONErpm that include Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, Paganini’s 24 Caprices, Armenian Miniatures, Paganini’s Sonatas for Violin and Guitar, Vivaldi 's Four Seasons and others: [30]

Reviews

Kultur aus Köln wrote about Madoyan's performances with the Netherlands and Rotterdam Symphonic Orchestras and Cologne Chamber Orchestra:

The event of the evening and the driving force of the concert, however, was Nikolay Madoyan. Modest in his appearance and performance style he gave a masterly interpretation of Mozart’s beautiful concerto in A major. Rising above the technical difficulties, Madoyan’s tone was cultivated and his interpretation carefully thought out – a performance of genius!

— Kultur aus Köln

The UK-based monthly The Strad wrote: "Madoyan has the mellifluousness of tone and the well-honed cantabile quality to bring off youthful pleasantries.

Nikolay Madoyan is an outstanding talent, he is an excellent violinist, a rare poet and a rightful master who sets the bar for other violinists. His playing can be compared to a delightful diamond that sparkles with indescribable colors.

— Isaac Stern,

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