Spartak Margaryan was born in Hamburg in 1994. He spent the first ten years of his life growing up in Germany and Sweden. He started playing the piano at the age of eleven and graduated from the prestigious Alexander Spendaryan State Music School for highly gifted children in Yerevan (Armenia) in the piano class of Marina Vardanyan. Prof. Vagharshak Harutunyan and Prof. Suren Zakaryan also had a strong influence on the development of his musical education.
During this time Spartak Margaryan was not only engaged in playing the piano, but also in composing. Some of his works were performed at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall and received much attention from audiences and critics.
Participations and sensational prizes at international competitions followed: 2007 and 2008 Grand Prix at the International “Flame” Piano Competition in Paris, 2008 First Prize at the International Piano Competition Solphi Al Wadi in Damascus/Syria and 2009 Second Prize at the 18th International Piano Competition N. Rubinstein in Paris.
From 2012 to 2013 Spartak Margaryan studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Prof. Konrad Elser. Since 2014, Spartak Margaryan has been perfecting his training in Prof. Anna Vinnitskaya’s master class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.
“Spartak Margaryan is a fantastic artist with a strongly defined personality; he makes even a repertoire piece sound like a discovery,” wrote Prof. Anna Vinnitskaya about the young artist.
In addition to his studies, the young pianist expanded his skills in several master classes, including master classes with Prof. Elisso Virsaladze and Konstantin Lifschitz. In addition, from 2008 to 2010 he successfully participated in the Germany concert tour as part of the “Kammerton” initiative. In 2019, he was Hamburg’s rising star at the unveiling of the new Steinway & Sons Limited Edition at the Elbphilharmonie.
In 2015 he received a grant from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and in 2018 a grant from the Swiss DOMS Foundation and the Claussen-Simon Foundation.
Spartak Margaryan performs as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles on many stages in Armenia, Italy, Poland, Russia, France and Germany.
Konstantin Lifschitz wrote enthusiastically about this recording by Spartak Margaryan:
„I listened to Spartak Margaryan’s version of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations with great joy and eagerness. This is a highly refined and extremely stable construction by one of the most promising musicians of our time. My colleague’s recording is the result of intense study of the varied and complex score and deserves every attention for that alone, not to mention its long Arcadian arcs.”
Spartak Margaryan, who develops his playing from the best traditions of the Russian and European piano schools, characterizes his pianistic ideal as follows:
„For me, despite everything, a giant of pianism remains Rosaline Turek. It is proof that it is possible to transcend the fundamental laws of physics, that it is possible to stop time and manipulate things we don’t even know about: the paradox.“