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Armenian pianist Sergei Babayan was the first pianist from the former USSR to compete and study in the West after the system’s collapse. Babayan is a Laureate of the Busoni and Queen Elisabeth Competitions. With a vast repertoire — 51 concertos currently under his belt — and passion for new music, Babayan has performed his diverse and inventive programming with many major orchestras including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Nationale de Lille and The Cleveland Orchestra. Babayan is also on faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The Scotsman may have said it best: “Babayan is no mere pianist. He is a master-musician for whom the piano is his voice, his orchestra.”