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wide-ranging recorded repertoire includes works
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph
Haydn, Franz Peter Schubert, Beethoven, Antonín
Leopold Dvořák, Béla Viktor János Bartok, Sergei
Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sir John Kenneth Tavener,
Arvo Pärt, Sir Andrzej Panufnik, Amédée-Ernest
Chausson, Achille-Claude Debussy, Joseph-Mau-
rice Ravel, Edvard Hagerup Grieg and Gomidas/
Aslamazian.
As a soloist, Levon Chilingirian has performed
the Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Johann Se-
bastian Bach concerti with great success. He has
also played the Tippett Triple Concerto with six
different orchestras with a subsequent recording
partnering with the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra under Richard Hickox. Recently he
became the musical director of a very talented
Swedish string ensemble, The Camerata Roman.
Directing from the leader’s chair, Chilingirian is
exploring a varied repertoire of string quartets
suitable for slightly larger groups, as well as unu-
sual classical and contemporary string ensemble
compositions.
Levon Chilingirian was invited to give the String
Master Class for the BBCTV’sYoungMusician of
the Year and has appeared as soloist with the BBC
Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bournemouth,
Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber and
Russian National Orchestra. He has received the
Cobbett Medal, the Royal Philharmonic Society’s
chamber music award and, in January 2000, an
OBE in the Queen’s Honours List for his services
to music.
Diemut Poppen / viola
Diemut Poppen is one of the finest viola players
of her generation. Born to a musical family, Pop-
pen studied in Germany, USAand Paris with some
of the greatest viola players of her time, including
Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Bruno Giuran-
na and Peter Schidlof. Diemut Poppen has been
awarded several scholarships and prizes, among
them the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
and the renowned European Music Prize.
As a soloist, Diemut Poppen has performed in
major music centres all over the world includ-
ing the Carnegie Hall in New York, Barbican in
London, Philharmonie in Berlin and Mozarteum
in Salzburg and has worked with musicians like
Claudio Abbado, Leonidas Kavakos and Viktor
Tretyakov. Poppen was for 15 years the princi-
pal viola and a founding member of the Cham-
ber Orchestra of Europe. Presently, she is pro-
fessor of viola and chamber music in Detmold,
Germany and at the renowned Escuela di Reina
Sofia in Madrid, giving, at the same time sev-
eral international master-classes. She is artistic
director of the Thuringische Sommerakademie
for Chamber Music and of the Detmolder Som-
merakademie. She has also acted as artistic di-
rector of the chamber music seria Osnabrucker
Kammermusiktage in Osnabruck, Germany, for
several years.
Several composers have written new pieces for
Diemut Poppen, including solo works, as well
as concertos, sonatas and chamber music. She
has performed the viola concertos of Mikhail
Pletnev, Vassily Lobanov and the work
Styxx
by
G.Kancheli for viola, symphony orchestra and
choir. Diemut Poppen has recorded for Deutsche
Grammophon, Cappricio, Live Classics, EMI, Tu-
Diemut Poppen
