Sofya Melikyan

Sofya Melikyan is an Armenian pianist, born in Yerevan in 1978. Pupil of pianist Joaquín Soriano from 1994, she has won some of the most important Spanish piano competitions (Ibiza, Linares). In September 2006 she won the fifth prize in Valencia's José Iturbi competition.

She has been active playing as a soloist with Armenian and Spanish orchestras, and has also kept ties with chamber music - she plays in chamber ensembles such as the "Conjunto Silvestri" piano quartet.