CATHERINE
MANOUKIAN
SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Manoukian’s professional
career began at the age of twelve when she won the grand prize
at the 1994 Canadian Music Competition. She was born in Toronto,
began violin studies with her father, and made her first stage
appearance at the age of four. From 1994 to 2000, Catherine
studied with the late, world-renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy
DeLay in New York.
Catherine’s orchestral debut was with the
Vancouver Symphony in 1994, playing Paganini's first violin
concerto. In subsequent years, she has soloed with many major
North American and international orchestras, including, among
others, the CBC Vancouver Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic,
the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic,
the Tokyo Symphony, the Osaka Century Orchestra, and the Armenian
Philharmonic Orchestra, all received to great critical acclaim.
She has collaborated with such conductors as Mario Bernardi,
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Keith Lockhart, Roy Goodman, Peter Oundjian,
Marek Pijarowski, Tomomi Nishimoto, Seikyo Kim, and Eduard
Topchjan. As a recitalist, she has appeared on major stages
of such cities as New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles,
Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, and Osaka, and has appeared as a chamber
musician at the Aspen, Caramoor, and Newport International
Festivals.
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