Maya Oganyan, eighteen years old, was born in Moscow and began studying the
piano at the age of four with M° Alexander Maykapar, professor at the “Gnessin”
Music Academy in Moscow. In 2015 she entered the “Benedetto Marcello”
Conservatory in Venice, where she studied under the guidance of M° Massimo
Somenzi and M° Olaf John Laneri.
Maya is the winner of numerous national and international competitions, including
the “Schumann Prize 2023” of the “Rospigliosi Competition”, also winning the Public
Prize, the First Prize in the “Young Female Talents of Music” Competition of
Soroptimist Italia, “Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition”, “Orbetello Piano
Competition”, “La Palma D’Oro”, also winning the “Premio Pettini” “for the best
talent highlighted among all the First Prizes of all the sections”. At just 17 years old,
she is the youngest finalist and winner of the 2nd Prize in the history of the
competition, of the Jury Prize and Special Prize “for the best female talent” at the
prestigious “Verona International Piano Competition”, in which she participated as
the youngest candidate. She is admitted for the summer of 2024 to the prestigious
Verbier Soloists Academy, where she will attend masterclasses of internationally
renowned musicians including Sir Andras Schiff, Rena Shereshevskaya, Kirill
Gerstein.
She performs abroad and throughout Italy and has already played for important
festivals, including the “Unione Musicale” in Turin, ”Società del Quartetto” in Milan,
“Trame Sonore Chamber Music Festival” in Mantua, ”Amici della Musica” in
Mestre, “Ascoli Piceno Festival”, “Cremona International Music Festival”, “Patmos
Chamber Music Festival”. She regularly collaborates with leading musicians, such as
Alessandro Carbonare, Anush Nikogosyan, Silvia Careddu, Christophe Coin, the
Adorno Quartet, and as a soloist with orchestras, including the Orchestra Filarmonica
della Fenice, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the “Arena di Verona” Orchestra,
the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra.
On June 3, 2021 she performed for the first time in a concert as a soloist
accompanied by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Eduard
Topchjan in the “Aram Khachaturian” hall in Yerevan, performing Concerto no. 3 by
Beethoven, in honor of Maestro Riccardo Muti, present in the room, and of the
Ravenna Festival. Following the concert she received positive criticism, including the
comment by Pablo L. Rodriguez in “El Pais”: “…The most interesting thing of that
evening was the performance of the Russian pianist trained in Italy, Maya Oganyan,
15 years old, which offered a version full of musical personality and sonic
exquisiteness of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. A distinction that she also
maintained in her choice of encore. Far from concluding her performance with a
virtuosic piece to delight the audience, the young pianist opted for the Mozart tribute
entitled The Messanger, by Valentin Silvestrov. An echo of the past, seen from the
present and played by a pianist with an interesting future.”
The program is repeated at the Toniolo Theater in Mestre accompanied by the
Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, at the Teatro Verdi in Florence with the Armenian
Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone. In 2023 she returns to
play in Yerevan performing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos with pianist Eva
Gevorgyan.
With the Armenian Philharmonic Maya also performs the Concerto n. 23 by Mozart
and plays in duo with the violinist Sonig Tchakerian in the Cappella Paolina of the
Quirinale in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella and President Armen
Sarkissian.
Nowadays she continues her studies under the guidance of M° Roberto Prosseda at
the Prato Academy and regularly attends the advanced specialization course with M°
Lilya Zilberstein at the Accademia Chigiana.
She is a student of the Fondazione Accademia di Musica.
