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Jean-Paul Gasparian

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Celebrating the 2020 Thierry Schertz Prize! Jean-Paul Gasparyan, winner of the Thierry Schertz Prize at the 2020 Gstaad Festival, has recorded Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Babadzhanyan’s “The Hero’s Ballad”! The Ballad of the Hero”! He has released three discs of solo piano concertos by Rachmaninoff and Chopin on the French EVIDENCE label, but this is his first concerto recording! The Gstaad Music Festival is held in Gstaad, Switzerland (a mountain village famous for the “Goldendepas Line”, a panoramic railroad line that crosses Switzerland), and is known for attracting talented young musicians from all over the world. The “Thierry Schertz Prize” was established as a tribute to Thierry Schertz, one of the founders of the festival.One of the participants will be given the opportunity to record and release a CD on the Claves label, with an additional prize of a CD release, and h