Dora Serviarian Kuhn

Armenian pianist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroArmenian pianist
PlacesArmenia
isMusician Pianist
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Female
BirthBeirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Family
Spouse:Robert Lawrence Kuhn
The details

Biography

Dora Serviarian-Kuhn is regarded as a leading interpreter of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto, having played it throughout the world more than any other living pianist. Serviarian-Kuhn has appeared with orchestras in the United States, Asia, and Latin America.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Serviarian-Kuhn received her B.A. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music and her M.A. in Piano from the University of Southern California. She created and is executive producer of Khachaturian, a feature-length documentary film on the life and music of Aram Khachaturian, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2003 Hollywood Film Festival.

Dora Serviarian-Kuhn's performances include the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Russia at the Khachaturian Centennial Celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de México UNAM (OFUNAM).

She is married to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a banker and the creator and host of the PBS television series Closer to Truth.

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