2025-26 Season

California State University, Fresno • Concert Hall

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Sergei Babayan

Sunday, April 26, 2026 • 3:00PM

With his “unequaled touch, perfectly harmonious phrasing and breathtaking virtuosity” (Le Figaro, Paris), Armenian-born Sergei Babayan commands an enormously wide and eclectic repertoire that spans from Rameau to Ligeti and includes over 50 concerti for piano and orchestra. His engagements and tours have brought him to preeminent international concert venues such as Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Herkulessaal in Munich, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, and Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, and include regular appearances on two pianos with the great Martha Argerich.

Co-sponsored with the Fresno State Armenian Studies Program.

Concert Program

Transcriptions of Songs by
SCHUBERT
SCHUMANN
LISZT
PONCE
RACHMANINOFF
KREISLER
MOMPOU
KOMITAS
SIBELIUS
ARLEN
GURIDI
DESYATNIKOV
GRIEG
HINDEMITH
REYNOLDS
POULENC
TRENET
GERSHWIN