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| | Vardan Mamikonian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | After completing studies in Armenia, Mamikonian continued at the Moscow Conservatory for two years and then moved on to the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he became a pupil of Valery Kastelsky, himself the last pupil of the legendary teacher Heinrich Neuhaus. |
 | | Although Mamikonian has received great acclaim from the public and media for his performances of the repertoire of Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, he does not want to be categorized as a specialist in that repertoire and is equally attracted to the works of Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven. |
 | | Mamikonian has also brought many works of the 20th Century to the public's attention, most notably the compositions of the Armenian composer Arno Babajanian, as well as the French composer Henri Duttileux, with whom he has worked closely. |
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