Tanya Gabrielian was born in 1983 in Southern California. She began her piano studies at the age of three and later became a scholarship student in the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since 2000, Tanya has lived in London, where she is now working on her Masters on a full-scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent international successes include first prizes in both the 2004 Scottish International Piano Competition and 2003 Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition. Tanya has performed with a number of orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Alexander Lazarev, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New London Sinfonia, and she joined PACO on their tour of the United Kingdom in the summer of 2004. During her studies in the United States, she was the winner of over twenty competitions and performed across the country, including New York (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Boston, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Tanya has been featured on Public Radio International on the show From the Top: A Showcase of America's Finest Young Classical Musicians, as well as on live radio broadcasts in Germany.
Tanya has studied with Christopher Elton, John McCarthy, Hamish Milne, Martin Roscoe, and Alexander Satz. Through various master classes and music festivals, Tanya has worked with such artists as Boris Berman, Lazar Berman, Maria Curcio, Peter Frankl, Emanuel Krasovsky, John O¹Conor, and John Perry.
Recent performances include a recital in St. Martins-in-the-Field, a recording for Zen-On Publishers (Japan), the Park Lane Group Young Artists Concert Series in the Purcell Room at London¹s South Bank Centre, of which the Times described Tanya as ³Ša pianist of powerful physical and imaginative muscle,² and concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Armenian Chamber Orchestra.
Upcoming engagements include concertos in the United Kingdom and in the United States, a series of four concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and a tour of Germany with her trio.