Ruben Kosemyan Canadian Violinist
& Recording Artist
About Ruben
More than 160 Recordings & 90 Transcriptions. The modern Violin Soloist with old school playing manner. Recording Artist with many world famous CD Labels.
He traveled for performances, concerts tours and giving masterclasses at least 200,000 km. Started Violin from 4 with His Father.
His first performance with the orchestra at the age of 8, take a place in Armenian Philharmonic Hall, with Mozart and Mendelssohn violin concertos. At the age of 11 performed in the Kremlin.
Since 1998, he has been teaching violin and chamber ensemble at the Yerevan State Conservatory. The professional connection with Tibor Varga, Ruggiero Ricci, Igor Oistrach, Ruben Aharonyan, Jean Ter-Merkerian and relationships with Heifetz pupils, Adam Han-Gorsky, Rudolf Koelman, Elisabeth Matesky, Carol Sindell and Thomas Christian, made became an experienced artist performing worldwide.
Ruben lives in Canada since 2010 and made His debut in Glenn Gould Studio and Corner Hall.
Canadian concert violinist Ruben Kosemyan born in Armenia and at the age of four began studying violin under the guidance of his father Alexander Kosemyan (Violist with the State Komitas quartet) and Tatyana Hayrapetyan in Special Music School after Tchaikovsky.
In 1987 he moved to Moscow to continue his musical education at the Moscow State Conservatory with professor Maya Glezarova.
Ruben has attended master-classes under the guidance of Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrach, Tibor Varga, Ruben Aharonyan (First violin of State Borodin quartet), Jean Ter-Merguerian, Ivan Monigetti and Dominique de Williencourt.
In 1997 Ruben was granted the prestigious Vladimir Spivakov scholarship.
In 1998 he began teaching violin and chamber ensemble classes at the Yerevan State Conservatory, and in 2000 Ruben was selected as head of the department of classical music at the "House of Music and Culture", Kish Island.
He has appeared with concerts in Armenia, Germany, France, Iran, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Malaysia, Georgia, Columbia and Russia and has performed the Brahms double concerto, violin concertos of Khachaturian, Saryan, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, Mozart, Bruch, Bach, Hairapetyan and many others.
Since 2005 Ruben has concentrated on playing more modern music, especially the Armenian classical and modern composers of which he has made a series of recordings.
In 2005 Ruben Kosemyan founded the Piano Trio. In October 31/2007, he was awarded a gold medal, "UNESCO Aram Khachaturian Centenary" by the "Composers Union" of R. A.
In 2009 Ruben was invited to join the "Khachaturian" State quartet as first violin, where he worked until 2010. Ruben is the author of "Violin Technique As A Mean Of Music Expression".
Since 2010, Ruben has been living in Canada where he's organized a group of professional musicians for live performances and recordings of classical and modern music.
He made his Canadian debut with "Sinfonia Toronto".
In 2015 received Canadian Citizenship.
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Violins
The violinst Ruben Kosemyan played masterpieces of violin makers from different eras. Each has its own tone and unique sound
Recordings
Ruben Kosemyan: recording artist, and his recordings are available for listening from a huge catalog. Here we have attempted to identify and link the currently available recordings both for purchase as digital CDs and as a listening to individual tracks. Please note that some CDs will only be available in certain local stores, while tracks must be available worldwide
Book
The book is devoted to various aspects of playing the violin and working on technical problems.
Many practical examples and solutions based on stage musical materials are given
Sheet Music
Ruben Kosemyan transposed numerous famous works for his own use in his concert programs and recordings. These are some of the currently-available collections of his writing, available as published sheet music or digital downloads