Wallingford Symphony performs Sunday, 2:00

Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan will be the featured performer when the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra presents a program of classical masterworks on Sunday, February 26, at 2 p.m. in the Paul Mellon Art Center at Choate Rosemary Hall.

Ms. Poghosan will play Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto on a program that includes the orchestra’s renditions of Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Georges Enesco and the Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” by AntoninDvorak, all conducted by Philip Ventre, musical director of the WSO.

The soloist, Ms. Poghosan, was born in Armenia and studied music at Romanos Melikan College and KomitasState University. After moving to the United States, she earned degrees at Califoirnia State University and the Manhattan School of Music where she is currently a member of the faculty. An active performer on both the east and west coasts, she has played in recitals at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, The Trinity Church Concerts at One Series, the Beverly Hills Sundays at Two series, and the Bach Lunch Recitals in California. She has appeared with numerous symphony orchestras and helped organize the “Requiem and Resurrection” concert commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York where her performance of Aram Khachaturian’s Piano Sonata earned audience and critical acclaim. She has recorded Khachaturian’s piano works and ballet transcriptions on the NAXOS label. Last year she had debut performances in Vienna, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Toronto, where she gave the Canadian premiere of Alan Hovhannes’s Piano Concerto “Lousadzak.”

Ticket information for the concert is available on the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra website or at Gallagher’s Travel Shoppe, 369 Center Street Street.