About the Artist
Born in Tehran, Iran, Yashar Nazarian's family migrated to Canada when he was 10 years old. Being of Armenian and Azerbaijani heritage, he learned to improvise folk music at an early age.
Mr. Nazarian has studied piano performance at McGill University and Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. He made his orchestral debut at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio at the age of 22, performing Tchaikowsky's Piano Concerto no. 1.
Yashar Nazarian's previous Professors include, Christina Petrowska Quilico, Antonin Kubalek, Eugene Plawutsky as well as Larysa Kuzmenko. His most recent recitals were in Taiwan's Hsinchu Hall, Pollock Hall (Montreal), The Arts and Letters Club and the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto.
In 1999, Yashar Nazarian was awarded the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creativity.
In 1999, Yashar Nazarian was awarded the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creativity.
Nocturne #1 (painting, composition, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Own Compositions
March (painting, composition, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Blind Entertainer (painting, composition, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Amazing Grace (arrangement, painting, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Memories (composition, painting, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Last Supper (animation/painting set to Rachmaninoff performance)
Ey Iran-Iranian Anthem (painting, arrangement, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Needless Virtuosity (set to Bach-Siloti Prelude in B minor) painting, performance by Yashar Nazarian
New Paintings
Rachmaninoff Lilacs (animation, poem, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Waltz #1 (animation, composition, performance by Yashar Nazarian)
Waltz #2 (painting, composition, performance by Yashar Nazarian)