About Diana

  • “The way she shapes the lyrical moments of the romantic virtuoso piece, with enormous intensity and confident phrasing, captivates the audience’s attention… Diana Adamyan seems to be playing primarily for herself – and it is a great privilege for the audience to be able to listen in.”

    Tagesspiegel

  • “Diana Adamyan is a name you will hear again...”

    Seen and Heard International

  • "Diana Adamyan…thrilled the audience with a depth of tonal expression and command that one could only admire. She celebrated the Adagio movement with all the intimacy and passion of an operatic aria"

    Hamburger Abendblatt

  • “following Diana Adamyan’s career promises to be a joy.”

    Seen and Heard International

  • Gentle and sensitive, she brilliantly mastered even the difficult top notes, which fell crystal clear like stars from the sky. With modesty and restraint, she gave in to the request for an encore, played with incredible virtuosity… The audience waited in vain for more but she seemed to have gone. She will not, however, be forgotten.”

    Volksblatt

  • “A phenomenal young violinist… From the very first note of the Sibelius concerto, Adamyan played her way into the hearts of her audience with fervent passion.

    Göttinger Tageblatt

  • “One of the new generation’s most promising and gifted young concert soloists.”

    The Violin Channel

  • “It would have been impossible to imagine a better soloist for Beethoven’s only violin concerto than the 24-year-old Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan. She has already won prestigious prizes in her international career and is one of the leading artists in her field.

    Volksblatt

Diana Adamyan is quickly gaining an international reputation as one of her generation’s most outstanding violinists, winning First Prize at the both 2018 Menuhin Competition and the 2020 Khachaturian International Competition.

Diana has performed all over the world, including performances with the hr-Sinfonieorchester at the Opening Concert of the Rheingau Musikfestival, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Seiji Ozawa Chamber Music Academy (Rolle), and the Matsumoto International Music Festival (Matsumoto), Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Niederbayerische Philharmonie, and the Staatsorchester Darmstadt.

Among her recent engagements are collaborations with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and Alain Altinoglu, at the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Hamburger Symphoniker and Han-Na Chang, at the Leiszhalle, and Sylvain Cambrelling at the Elbphilharmonie, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern Saarbrücken and Giancarlo Guerrero, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin and Ruth Reinhardt at the Philharmonie Berlin, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz with Markus Poschner at the Prinzregententheater in Munich and Brucknerhaus Linz, Aspen Music Festival with Lionel Bringuier, Boston Pops Orchestra at the Boston Symphony Hall with Keith Lockhart, as well as recitals in Tokyo, France and the recent debut at the Boston Celebrity Series.

Diana is currently a Classeek Ambassador Programme Artist.

Born in 2000 in Yerevan into a family of musicians, Diana completed her studies in 2017 with Prof. Petros Haykazyan, in 2018 with Prof. Eduard Tadevosyan and in 2023 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Prof. Ana Chumachenco. Diana was also selected to study with Pinchas Zukerman as a participant at the NAC Summer Music School, as well as with Leonidas Kavakos, in association with the DakApp Foundation. Currently living in Basel, Diana continues her studies at the Musik-Akademie Basel with Leonidas Kavakos.

Having a strong desire for chamber music, nurtured by Seiji Ozawa, Kazuki Yamada, Sadao Harada, and Nobuko Imai, Diana often joins chamber music projects and performs chamber music on festivals.

The recipient of a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Diana is under the patronage of the Armenian General Benevolent Union and YerazArt foundation in Boston. She performs on an instrument made by Nicolò Gagliano in 1760, generously on loan from the Henri Moerel Foundation.

Alongside her journey in classical music, Diana turns to painting as a second language of expression, capturing the colors she sees in sound and the emotions that flow through every note she plays.

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