Harutyun Melikian, a second grade student at Stephan Jrbashyan Music School, took the second place prize at the 5th International Piano Competition María Herrero, which took place in Granada, Spain on July 20-24.
As reports Armenpress.am, Melikian, participating in the competition with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, performed Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Rondo”, Edvard Grieg’s “Butterfly”, Isaac Berkovich’s “Variations on a Theme by Paganini”, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz”, and Arno Babajanian’s ”Humoresque”.
67 participants from 26 countries took part in the competition.