Narine Valesyan was born in Armenia in May 2012. She has been taking piano lessons since she was six years old. She initially studied at the “Sayat-Nova” Music School in Yerevan. In 2021, she moved to Hanover with her family and began taking piano lessons with Prof. Dr. Elena Levit. After passing the entrance exam, Narine took lessons from April 2022 through March 2025 at the VIFF, the preparatory class of the Institute for the Early Education of Musically Gifted Children (IFF). At the 2023 “Jugend musiziert” state competition, she was awarded first prize and 25 points in the “Piano Solo” category. At the Hamburg Instrumental Competition, she received a first prize with honors in the piano solo category. A grant from the “Jugend musiziert” Lower Saxony Foundation, part of the “Note um Note” program of the Sparda-Bank Hannover Foundation, supported Narine in her preparation for the 2024 “Jugend musiziert” competition. That same year, she was awarded first prize and 25 points in the “Duo—Piano and a String Instrument” category at the 2024 “Jugend musiziert” competition.
As part of the Hamburg Instrumental Competition, Narine received the “Young Pianists” Special Prize for participating in a master class with Jacques Ammon (Leipzig University of Music and Theater), which took place in 2023 at the Pianohaus Trübger. At the 2026 national “Jugend musiziert” competition, Narine Valesyan was awarded first prize and a special prize from the Carl Bechstein Foundation in the form of a scholarship.
(As of June 2026)
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