Kiron Atom Tellian was admitted to the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna when he was eight years old, where he currently studies with Vladimir Kharin.
Tellian has won many prizes and first prizes at national and international competitions for piano, chamber music and composition in Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Slovakia, Russia, England, the USA, and Japan, and played many concerts and recitals in Austria and abroad.
Recent first prizes at: 11th Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition in 2017, 15th Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition Košice (Slovakia) in 2017; three first prizes at the Fifth Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition October 2017 in New York City, USA; Grand Prize (first Prize over all categories) and special prices at the 3rd International Feurich Competition in June 2018; Grand Prix and special prizes at the 10th Savshinsky International Music Competition in 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia; Rudolf Heydner Competition in 2019 in Vienna.
Recent masterclasses with Prof. Pascal Godart at the Académies d’été du Grand Paris in 2017, with Ingolf Wunder at Steinway in Austria, and with Prof. Daejin Kim in Sochi (Russia) 2019.
You can hear Tellian’s First Round performance during Session 2 on Friday, July 31.