Biography
Soon after her dazzling débuts with the Caramoor International Music Festival as Gluck's Orfeo and as soloist at the Washington’s Kennedy Center with Bobby McFerrin, Victoria Avetisyan was honored with Caramoor's Young Vocal Artist of the Year award.
A native of Yerevan, Armenia, Avetisyan completed her academic training at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia, graduating in 1996 with the master's degree in vocal performance. She began her singing career as a principal artist at the National Opera Theater of Armenia, where she sang numerous roles including Paranzem and Shoushan in Choukhajian's operas Arshak II and Karine; the mother’s role in Armen Tigranian's beloved opera Anoush; Azucena and Emilia in Verdi's Il Trovatore and Otello, respectively, and Rossini's Cenerentola and Rosina.
In 1999 Ms. Avetisyan was selected to join Boston University's internationally recognized Opera Institute where she received her Artist’s Diploma following two years of intensive studies with Sharon Daniels.
Ms. Avetisyan returned to Caramoor to sing Fedora in the highly touted world premiere of Donizetti's Élisabeth. The versatile mezzo made her company début with the Boston Lyric Opera as Princess Sophia Korchagin in the Boston premiere of Tod Machover's Resurrection, followed by her Boston Symphony Hall début as soloist in Verdi's Requiem.
In the 2007-2008 season Ms. Avetisyan, began with a solo performances in Zoltan Kodaly’s Te Deum,and Croation Mass by Igor Kuljerik (US premiere) with Eugene Symphony Orchetra
Soon after her dazzling débuts with the Caramoor International Music Festival as Gluck's Orfeo and as soloist at the Washington’s Kennedy Center with Bobby McFerrin, Victoria Avetisyan was honored with Caramoor's Young Vocal Artist of the Year award.
A native of Yerevan, Armenia, Avetisyan completed her academic training at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia, graduating in 1996 with the master's degree in vocal performance. She began her singing career as a principal artist at the National Opera Theater of Armenia, where she sang numerous roles including Paranzem and Shoushan in Choukhajian's operas Arshak II and Karine; the mother’s role in Armen Tigranian's beloved opera Anoush; Azucena and Emilia in Verdi's Il Trovatore and Otello, respectively, and Rossini's Cenerentola and Rosina.
In 1999 Ms. Avetisyan was selected to join Boston University's internationally recognized Opera Institute where she received her Artist’s Diploma following two years of intensive studies with Sharon Daniels.
Ms. Avetisyan returned to Caramoor to sing Fedora in the highly touted world premiere of Donizetti's Élisabeth. The versatile mezzo made her company début with the Boston Lyric Opera as Princess Sophia Korchagin in the Boston premiere of Tod Machover's Resurrection, followed by her Boston Symphony Hall début as soloist in Verdi's Requiem.
In the 2007-
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In September 2008,she was soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, and in November, Ms. Avetisyan was presented the Key to the City of Worcester by the Honorable Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes.
Other recent engagements have included recital and concert performances as guest soloist on both coasts: debut appearance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No.9 and Handel’s Messiah; as soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Eugene Concert Choir; Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Masterworks Chorale.
Ms. Avetisyan’s other operatic roles include: Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen; Fenema in Verdi's Nabucco; Armelinde in Viardot's La Cendrillon Zita in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi; Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Ursula in Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz.
A recipient of numerous distinctions, Victoria Avetisyan is the winner of the Andrew & Anne Pinto Award at Connecticut's Opera Guild Scholarship Competition. She has also earned the Gerda Lissner Foundation Award and the second prize in the Liederkranz Vocal Competition. Other awards include the 2003 Festival Marjorie Carr Adams Young Vocal Artist Award, Second Prize winner of the 2002 Queens Opera Vocal Competition and was a regional (New England) finalist at The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Her radio and television appearances include Armenian National Television.,Armenian National radio, WGBH classical Radio.
In September 2008,she was soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, and in November, Ms. Avetisyan was presented the Key to the City of Worcester by the Honorable Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes.
Other recent engagements have included recital and concert performances as guest soloist on both coasts: debut appearance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No.9 and Handel’s Messiah; as soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Eugene Concert Choir; Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Masterworks Chorale.
Ms. Avetisyan’s other operatic roles include: Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen; Fenema in Verdi's Nabucco; Armelinde in Viardot's La Cendrillon Zita in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi; Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Ursula in Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz.
A recipient of numerous distinctions, Victoria Avetisyan is the winner of the Andrew & Anne Pinto Award at Connecticut's Opera Guild Scholarship Competition. She has also earned the Gerda Lissner Foundation Award and the second prize in the Liederkranz Vocal Competition. Other awards include the 2003 Festival Marjorie Carr Adams Young Vocal Artist Award, Second Prize winner of the 2002 Queens Opera Vocal Competition and was a regional (New England) finalist at The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Her radio and television appearances include Armenian National Television.,Armenian National radio, WGBH classical Radio.