Repertoire Vaĭnberg: Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1953)Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 (1944)About the ArtistsAram Arakelyan is senior lecturer in music in collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and has been a member of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department since its inception in fall 2016. He has performed extensively with choirs and large ensembles and has worked with such renowned conductors as Carl St. Clair, Helmut Rilling, Barlow Bradford, and Jerry Junkin. Arakelyan's tenure with the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Singers under the direction of Jo-Michael Scheibe yielded numerous performances of a wide range of standard and contemporary repertoire, both at home and abroad. Other choral ensembles Arakelyan has performed include the Utah Chamber Artists and IU's NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. A versatile musician, he has performed in variety of different genres and settings, including the American Contemporary Ballet, high holy days with the Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, and a fun-filled Wah-Hoo Revue! at the Sun Valley Opera House in Idaho. He has partnered such artists as tenor Hui Jin, violist Patricia McCarty, hornist Dale Clevenger, flutists Marco Granados and Alberto Almarza, and tubists Sergio Carolino and Eugene Pokorny, and regularly shares the stage with his Jacobs colleagues. He has also performed at the Festival International de Flauta Latino in Monterrey, Mexico, the Schubert Club Series in St. Paul, Minnesota, and many other venues. Arakelyan previously held collaborative piano staff positions at the Colburn School and the Meadowmount School of Music. He has served as a member of the collaborative staff at the Primrose International Viola Competition (2014) and the International Horn Symposium (2015, 2022). He has also been on faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy. Arakelyan earned a B.M. in Piano Performance from The University of Utah, an M.M. in Collaborative Piano from The University of Texas at Austin, and a D.M.A. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern California. He received his education under the mentorship of Susan Duehlmeier, Anne Epperson, Norman Krieger, and Alan L. Smith. Hailed by critics as a "superior poet" (Vancouver Sun) and praised for his "heart and indomitable will" (Gramophone), Grigory Kalinovsky has performed at some of the world's major venues, from all three stages of Carnegie Hall in New York to Laeiszhalle (Musikhalle) Großer Saal in Hamburg. His recording with pianist Tatiana Goncharova featuring Shostakovich's Violin Sonata and 24 Preludes was released by Centaur Records to great critical acclaim and hailed by the composer's son, conductor Maxim Shostakovich, as "a must-have for any Shostakovich music connoisseur." The duo's recording of the complete set of sonatas for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg was released on Naxos label in 2017. A devoted educator, Kalinovsky has been on the faculty at the IU Jacobs School of Music since 2013. His book ViolinMind, on theory and technique of playing using different tuning systems, written in collaboration with famed cello professor Hans Jørgen Jensen, was published by OvationPress in 2019. Kalinovsky has presented master classes at many major music schools and festivals in the United States and abroad, including the New England Conservatory, Colburn School, University of Maryland, San Francisco Conservatory, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and Jerusalem Music Center in Israel, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Germany, Beijing Central Conservatory in China, and Seoul National University and Korea National University of Arts in South Korea. He has recently recorded several hours of violin technique pedagogy videos for Tonebase Violin. His students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including the Spohr International Violin Competition, Tibor Varga Junior Competition, Menuhin Young Artists Competition in England, and Andrea Postacchini Young Violinists Competition in Italy, among others. Kalinovsky started his music education with Tatiana Liberova in his native St. Petersburg, Russia. After coming to New York, he continued his studies with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music, where he later served as a faculty member for 15 years until his move to Indiana University.Serge Kalinovsky is currently a freshman at the Colburn School, studying with Clive Greensmith. Hailing from Bloomington, he was a long-time student of Susan Moses at the IU String Academy and also studied with Richard Aaron and Brandon Vamos. Kalinovsky was a merit scholarship student at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy (2021-24). In past summers, Kalinovsky has participated in Morningside Bridge Program at NEC, Pinchas Zukerman's Young Artists Program in Canada, IU Summer String Academy, Heifetz International Music Institute, Chamber Music Northwest Young Artists Institute, and Music@Menlo Young Performers Program. His orchestral solos include the first movement of Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago. As part of the Heifetz Ensemble in Residence (HEIR) program, he performed in several concerts in Virginia, including playing the Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 with famed violinist and pedagogue Ani Kavafian. Kalinovsky was a second prize winner of the 2020 Association of the Louisville Orchestra Young Artist Competition, winner of the 2020 MTNA statewide competition, first prize winner of the 2020 Indianapolis Symphony Maurer Young Musicians Contest, and first prize winner of the 2021 Philadelphia International Music Festival Competition. In 2023 he became a winner of the DePaul Concerto Festival, the winner of the Senior Division of the Orchestra Indiana Patricia Tretick Young Artist Competition, third prize winner at the Ronald Sachs International Competition, and runner-up at the International Young Artist Concerto Competition. Kalinovsky is also an avid chamber music player. In the 2021-22 season, he was a member of the Peresson Quartet, which won the grand prize at St. Paul String Quartet Competition and third Prize at Fischoff Competition, Junior Division in Spring 2022. In the 2022-23 season, he was a member of the Goya Piano Trio, which won first prizes at the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition, Barnett Chamber Music Competition, and Chicago National Chamber Music Competition. In addition to music, Serge is an avid chess player.