Isaiah Aram Minasian

Minasian was born in 1986 Brighton, United Kingdom to a musical family. His mother Maria Salari, is a violinist ,cellist and his grandfather was a pianist. Minasian began playing violin at the age of five on the training of his mother and afterward continued educating with well-known violinist Arsalan Kamkar, in Iran.[1] He participated in some classical performances with Tehran Symphony Orchestra conducting by Shahrdad Rohani,[2] a well-known Iranian conductor. In year 2010, he moved to Paris and entered the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Paris in the masterclasses of Ami Flammer and Frederic Laroque, and concurrently attended courses of chamber music with Itamar Golan, Emmanuelle Bertrand and Philippe Bernold.[3] Afterwards he continued his studies on music at Sorbonne school of Music and Musicology,[4] where he was founded as a talented pupil and awarded to continue his studies at Juilliard school of music and dance, in New York.

The year 2011 to 2014, he played at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducting by Myung-whun Chung.[5] In there, Minasian was also the third assistant conductor over two years. From the year 2012 to 2014, he was the master soloist of Sorbonne Symphonic Orchestra.

In 2014, Minasian considered pursuing a doctorate level fellowship scholarship in Musical Arts (Violin, D.M.A.) at the Juilliard School, New York, United States but passed it up in April 2015. He judged one the biggest instrumentalist's competitions in France "Le meilleur joueur de l'instrument à cordes" in April 2016.

After passing an inactive period in live appearance, Minasian began his gold performances in July 2016 with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam and Paris. He got the first honorary Offenbach Music Award for his impressing solo Violin and Cello playing. Minasian had private performance with accompaniment Aleksey Igudesman to top Russian and Turkish government officials and got honorary award from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia in August 2016. The days after, he was chosen to be Moscow Symphonic Orchestra' soloist in the Victory Day celebration in Moscow.

He won the 1st award Jean Sibelius Violin Competition at Helsinki and the 1st award Concours d'excellence Confédération Musicale de France as well.

Minasian got the honorary award "Ordre national de la Chevalier d'honneur" from Minister of Culture and Art after his impressive performance at Commemoration of Paganini at paris. Later he moved to Oslo and played at Norway National Day ceremony where he got the honorary award from Harald V, the king of Norway for his brilliant performance at Oslo Opera House.

He was the very first recipient of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competitions of violin soloists in Paris in 2014. First Prize winner at the South Korea Symphony Orchestra Standard Life-OSM 2007 Competition, he was named Révélation Radio-BBC 2013-2014 in classical music, received the Lisker Music Foundation Award in 2011, and was chosen as Personality of the Week in La Presse newspaper in 2013, Isaiah was ranked amongst "CBC Radio's 30 Hot French classical musicians under 30".

He had an inactive period in live performances following memory loss after severe brain surgery treatment for meningitis in June 2015. Occasionally played as guest soloist at Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and London national orchestra.

Minasian is an experienced professional orchestrator; very known composers and film production companies hire him to arrange melodies for orchestras or movie music pieces. He flesh out basic melodies to deep orchestral melodies for best known orchestras around the world such as Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London.

"He is the most hearing musicians of the day which could be found in Beethoven character" Myung Chung quoted. Myung found him his most talented assistants " Missing him was one of my biggest troubles in my professional life" he expressed. Minasian acclaimed by many great musicians of the time and could take awards in numbers of international competitions. "Music is only touching when it tells a story and Minasian is the true story teller when he takes his bow on his violin" Jean Deplace quoted.

His talents and expertness in playing stringed musical Instruments is clear to anyone who listen to his performances.

He plays on a "Pietro Antonio dalla Costa" violin from Treviso made in 1763. His deep lyrical feeling and captivating virtuosity, bring out each facet of the pieces into the most beautiful, stirring, exciting and difficult words in the repertoires.

• 2008 B.A in Fine arts Tehran University of Art, Iran
• 2010 M.A in Plastic Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy
• 2013, DNSPM of Music and Musicology. L'Universite Paris-Sorbonne(Paris IV), Paris, France
• 2014, withdrawn student of Doctorate in Musical Arts(Violin, D.M.A.) at The Juilliard School, New York, United States

• 2007, won the 2nd prize at the 9th Beijing Music Festival BMF in Beijing, China.
• 2007, First Prize winner at the South Korea Symphony Orchestra Standard Life-OSM.
• 2008, won the 2nd prize at the International Foundation "Parnassus" in Paris, France.
• 2011, won the 1st prize Norwegian Soloists MMES Oslo, Norway.
• 2011, won the 3rd prize in Cello playing at Lisker Music Foundation, London, UK.
• 2011-2014: violinist at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
• 2012-2014: master soloist of Sorbonne Symphonic Orchestra.
• 2013, won the full scholarship for violin soloist of Juilliard Music School.
• 2014, won the 3rd prize at Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competitions of violin soloists in Paris, France.
• 2014, received the honorary award of cello playing from Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 2014, won the 1st award for cello ensemble playing at BBC Young Musician Contest (BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four), Edinburgh, UK.
• 2014, received award of top 20 cellists at International Rostropovich Cello Competition (in memorial of Pablo Casals) Paris, France.
• 2014, Semi-finalist of violinists at Concours Jeunes-Artistes de Radio-France(France Musique) Paris, France.
• 2014, recipient of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competitions of violin soloists in Paris, France.
• 2015, selected as laureate of the 2015-2016 Classe d'Excellence de violoncelle Gautier Capuçon from the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.
• 2015, received the 2015 Men's Musical Club of Paris Career Development Awar, France.
• 2016, judging the biggest instrumentalist's competitions in France "Le meilleur joueur de l'instrument à cordes".
• 2016, received first "Offenbach Music Award" for Violin and Cello, Paris, France.
• 2016, got honorary award from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
• 2016, won the 1st award Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Helsinki. Finland
• 2016, won the 1st award Concours d'excellence Confédération Musicale de France, Paris.
• 2016, set the World Record as fastest violinist for performing in 66 seconds, averaging 13 notes per second.
• 2017, got the honorary award "Ordre national de la Chevalier d'honneur" from Minister of Culture and Art, Paris, France.
• 2017, Played as the main soloist at Norway National Day ceremony and got the honorary award from Harald V, the king of Norway for his brilliant performance. Oslo Opera House, Norway
• 2018, got honorary award "best orchestration Russian traditional music " from Russia Minister of Culture and Art, Moscow, Russia
• 2018, won 50 best British Musicians award by BBC Music Magazine. London, Uk

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