Hovhannes Nersesyan

Biography

Currently studies at the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory under G. Akopyan (2011 to present). In 2013 he won third prize in the Maria Bieshu International Competition for young musicians in Chisinau. In 2014 he came in third at the 1st International Opera Without Borders Competition for Young Opera Singers in Krasnodar. In 2015 he won the 9th International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition in Tikhvin. Since 2014 he has been a soloist for the Spendiarov Armenian State Theatre of Opera and Ballet. In Yerevan he has appeared in a concert performance of Ruben Altunyan’s ballet-oratorio The Book of Lamentations (2012), at the Verdiana Festival, and a concert performance of Tosca among other engagements. He participated in the Palaces of Saint Petersburg International Music Festival and in the gala concert Distinguished Voices of Armenia in the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia (2014).