ARMEN-LEVON MANASERYAN – Pianist
Artistic Programs
Alongside his career as a concert pianist, Armen-Levon Manaseryan creates original concert programmes that bring piano performance and visual art together. His work explores the visualisation of programmatic music, transforming its stories, images and emotions into an experience that can be both heard and seen.
Through his unique projects, Manaseryan develops new ways of presenting the classical repertoire, creating concerts in which music, visual art and imagination become part of a single artistic experience.
His projects are conceived for concert halls, festivals, museums, galleries and other cultural spaces, offering audiences a distinctive approach to experiencing classical music. Color Of Sound, Visible Music and the new Peer Gynt project form an ongoing artistic journey dedicated to making music visible.
The newest chapter in Manaseryanʼs visualisation of programmatic music, following Color Of Sound and Visible Music. Inspired by Griegʼs Peer Gynt Suites and Henrik Ibsenʼs original play, the project brings together piano performance, visual interpretation and storytelling, exploring the characters, landscapes and dramatic world of Peer Gynt.
Although a new project, Peer Gynt has already appeared on major stages in Poland, Germany, Belgium, Armenia, and other countries.
Following Color Of Sound, Visible Music further develops Manaseryanʼs exploration of making programmatic music visible. For each of Tchaikovskyʼs twelve pieces/months, Manaseryan created an original visual interpretation, bringing the changing seasons, characters, and atmospheres of the music to life alongside the piano performance.
Visible Music has already been presented in Germany, France, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, and other countries, receiving an enthusiastic response from audiences and establishing the project as a distinctive concert format combining music, visual art and live performance.
Color Of Sound is Armen-Levon Manaseryanʼs first project exploring the visualisation of programmatic piano music. Inspired by Mussorgskyʼs Pictures At an Exhibition, Manaseryan created original visual interpretations of the work, bringing them into dialogue with his live piano performance.
First presented in Germany, the project has since been performed in Portugal, France, Armenia, Malta, Belgium, Spain, and other countries, receiving an enthusiastic response from audiences.
Color Of Sound established the artistic concept that continues today through Visible Music and the new Peer Gynt project.
Each programme can be presented as a distinctive standalone concert or developed within the artistic concept of a festival, concert series or cultural institution.
Armenian Piano Music
Armenian Heritage is a recital series through which Armen-Levon Manaseryan presents the extraordinary richness of Armenian piano music̶ from ancient melodies and traditional musical roots to the distinctive voices of contemporary Armenian composers.
His programmes have explored the piano music of Komitas, Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babajanyan, Eduard Abramian, Edward Mirzoyan, Adam Khudoyan, Eduard Baghdasaryan, Gevorg Hovhannisyan, Hayg Boyadjian, Vache Sharafyan and others, including complete piano repertoires and composer-focused programmes.
The connection with the living Armenian music scene is equally important: several contemporary Armenian composers have dedicated piano works to Manaseryan or written new compositions especially for him.
The series offers audiences a chance to discover Armenian music not as a historical curiosity, but as a vivid and powerful living tradition ̶ rich in colour, rhythm, spirituality, drama and extraordinary expressive range.
Wherever Manaseryan presents Armenian piano music internationally, audiences respond with genuine curiosity and enthusiasm. After concerts, listeners frequently ask where they can find and explore the piano scores themselves ̶ a response that reflects the strong communicative power of this repertoire. A musical journey through Armeniaʼs heritage, told through the piano.
