The 2026 Festival

After winning First Prize at the 2018 Menuhin Competition and the Khachaturian International Competition, “a phenomenal young violinist” (Göttinger Tageblatt, Germany), Diana Adamyan gained growing international recognition as one of the most outstanding violinists of her generation.

Diana has performed all over the world, including performances with the hrSinfonieorchester at the Opening of the Rheingau Musikfestival, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Seiji Ozawa Chamber Music Academy (Rolle), and the Matsumoto International Music Festival (Matsumoto), Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Niederbayerische Philharmonie, and the Staatsorchester Darmstadt.

Among her recent engagements are collaborations with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and Alain Altinoglu, at the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Hamburger Symphoniker and Han-Na Chang, at the Leiszhalle, and Sylvian Cambrelling at the Elbphilharmonie, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern Saarbrücken and Giancarlo Guerrero, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin and Ruth Reinhardt at the Philharmonie Berlin, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz with Markus Poschner at the Prinzregententheater in Munich and Brucknerhaus Linz, Aspen Music Festival with Lionel Bringuier, Boston Pops Orchestra at the Boston Symphony Hall with Keith Lockhart, as well as recitals in Tokyo, France and the recent debut at the Boston Celebrity Series.

Having a strong desire for chamber music, nurtured by Seiji Ozawa, Kazuki Yamada, Sadao Harada, and Nobuko Imai, Diana often joins chamber music projects and performs chamber music on festivals. The recipient of a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Diana Adamyan is under the patronage of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (New York), and YerazArt Foundation (Boston). She performs on a violin by Nicolò Gagliano (1760), a generous loan by the Henri Moerel Foundation.

Born in 2000 in Armenia into a family of musicians, Diana studied with Prof. Petros Haykazyan until 2017. She continued to master her art with Prof. Ana Chumachenco, and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in 2023. She was selected to study with Pinchas Zukerman at the NAC Summer Music School, and with Leonidas Kavakos, in association with the DakApp Foundation.

Currently living in Basel, Switzerland, heading towards her musical journey and dream career, Diana Adamyan experiments with re-creating her musical vision and colors through her paintings.