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Mariam Kharatyan

Associate Professor
Department of Classical Music and Music Education
Phone
+47 38142446
Mobile phone
+4740640243
Office K3022 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Areas of responsibility

Armenian pianist Mariam Kharatyan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She has her musical background as a classical pianist and completed her Master's degree at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia. From 2012 she moved to Norway and completed the Master program of Western-European Music at the University of Agder. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in Institutt for Klassisk Musikk og Musikkpedagogikk at the University of Agder.

Kharatyan has been a soloist with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Norway, Torun Symphony Orchestra with Anna Duczmal-Mroz, Poland and String Orchestra of Sarajevo Music Academy with Tijana Vignevic, Bosnia Hercegovina. She is a prize winner in several international piano competitions such as “Giovanni Musicisti” (1st Prize, 2013) in Treviso, Italy, Grieg International Piano Competition in Bergen (Semifinalist, 2016), and in the “Renaissance” International contest-festival in Gyumri, Armenia, in 2010. 

Kharatyan had masterclasses with Leif Ove Andsnes, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Marianna Shirinyan, and Jan Jiracek Von Arnim, among others. She has performed in Kilden Teater og Konserthus in Kristiansand, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Leshowitz Recital Hall in Montclair, New Jersey, Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, also in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Belarus, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Lithuania.

From 2015-2019 she has worked on the project Armenian Fingerprints: interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music, admitted in Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. In 2019 she has released two albums - Khachaturian, Chamber Music with Simax Classics, and Komitas, Shoror with Grappa Musikkforlag. 

Research

Selected publications

Armenian Fingerprints - interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music

Aram Khachaturian - Chamber Music

Komitas - Shoror

Publications

  • Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe & Kharatyan, Mariam (2024). Rethinking Music Performance Education Through the Lens of Today’s Society, Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research. Open Book Publishers. ISSN 9781805112730. p. 251–270. doi: 10.11647/OBP.0398.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2024). Score-Based Learning and Improvisation in Classical Music Performance, Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research. Open Book Publishers. ISSN 9781805112730. p. 181–194. doi: 10.11647/OBP.0398.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Aspects of Interpretation with Multicultural Performers . In Rykowski, Mikolaj (Eds.), Music E-ducation in XXI- st century. New challenges and perspectives. Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania, Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu. ISSN 978-83-65727-59-6. p. 209–220.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Aspekty interpretacyjne muzyki w środowisku wykonawców wielokulturowych. In Murawskiej, Ewy; Schau, Jørn; Rykowskiego, Mikołaja & Kłysz-Sokalskiej, Natalii (Ed.), E-dukacja muzyczna w XXI wieku Nowe wyzwania i perspektywy. Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania, Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu. ISSN 978-83-65727-62-6. p. 277–292.

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  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2024). EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2024 SOUND ACTS ENSEMBLE // A Performance of free Sounds.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2024). CreaTeME//MAURICE RAVEL TROIS POÉMES DE MALLARMÉ CHANSON MADÉCASSES IMPROVISATION WITH LIVE ELECTRONICS.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2024). RE-CREATION//CreaTeME .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Armenian and Norwegian Fingerprints - Recital .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Improvisation in Classical Music - Listening, Reacting and Responding Together.
  • Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe & Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Interdisciplinary Artistic Project: Songs of the Soul.
  • Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe & Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Erasmus + Project REACT: Artistic-Research Based Learning: Toolkit (Output3) .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). ARAM CHATSCHATURJAN (1903 – 1978) Klavierkonzert Des-Dur op. 38 GMD Mihkel Kütson, Dirigent Niederrheinische Sinfoniker Mariam Kharatyan, klavier.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Lær å Lytte Podcast, Armenian Fingerprints with Mariam Kharatyan . [Internet]. Spotify.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Musical Journey to Armenia – Armensk musikk og kultur.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Piano Recital, REACT, University of Nicosia, Kypros.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). CHANTS DE L'ÂME - SONGS OF THE SOUL Journeys to France, Andalucia and Middel East .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam & Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe (2023). REACT - Virtual Academy of Music Performance, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Alan Hovhaness, Lousadzak/Coming of Light piano concerto and Improvisation .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Lousadzak/Coming of Light - Hovhaness' piano concerto and Response-Improvisations.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). Piano and Chamber Music Masterclasses at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in Armenia, Erasmus+ Mobility Program.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2023). On Crossroads of Tradition and Innovation.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Artistic research: on specifics of the Norwegian model of artistic research and "Armenian fingerprints" project.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). Meet the Artist, interviewed by Frances Wilson, The Cross-Eyed Pianist. [Internet]. meettheartist.online.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). How to use the Sostenuto pedal | Middle pedal.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). Evolution of the middle pedal | Sostenuto pedal .
  • Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe; Kharatyan, Mariam; Correia, Jorge; Dalagna, Gilvano; Foletto, Clarissa & Economidou-Stavrou, Natassa (2022). Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions: Perspectives from Norway.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). Score-Based Learning and Improvisation in Classical Music Performance.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). ARMENIAN CROSSROADS KOMITAS, HOVHANESS, KHACHATURIAN Klaverkonsert i Oslo .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). Bridging musical and artistic knowledge in performance practice.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2022). Through and Beyond the Notes: New Interpretational Possibilities in Music Performance.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam & Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe (2021). Frederick Delius Music Project, Three Preludes (1923).
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Recital in Troldhaugen - Alan Hovhaness, Edvard Grieg, Aram Khachaturian .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). EVOCATIONS - VOLT FESTIVAL Grieg, Komitas and Khachaturian.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Masterclasses at the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Konsert i I. J. Paderewski musikk akademi i Poznan, Polen.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Crossroads, New Interpretational Possibilities Through Artistic Research.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Composer - Performer - Listener: Bridging the Time and Space.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). The aspects of interplay on European notation system, music education and interpretation.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2021). Presentation of the article "Aspects of Interpretation with Multicultural Performers".
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2020). Towards developing preparation skills and positive mindset prior to performance.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2020). Artistic research in music and the aspects of interpretation with multicultural performers.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2020). Klaverkonsert i Buen Kulturhus, Norway. E. Grieg, Komitas, A. Khachaturian.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2020). Klaverkonsert i Arendal Kulturhus, Norway. E. Grieg, Komitas, A. Khachaturian, V. Kristensen.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2020). Armenian Fingerprints .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Konsert i Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig, Tyskland.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Konsert i M. K. Ciurlionio Namai, Vilnius, Lituaen .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Armenian Fingerprints. Release concert of albums Komitas, Shoror, and Aram Khachaturian, Chamber Music in Oslo, Norway.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Aram Khachaturian, Piano Concerto with KSO .
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Aram Khachaturian, Chamber Music SIMAX CLASSICS.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Komitas, Shoror GRAPPA Musikkforlag.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2018). Komitas. Concert with Vigen Balasanyan in Domkirke, Kristiansand, Norway.
  • Kharatyan, Mariam (2019). Armenian Fingerprints - interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music Doktorgradsavhandling . Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.

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