Dora Serviarian Kuhn
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Dora Serviarian-Kuhn (born Beirut, Lebanon) is internationally regarded as a leading interpreter of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto, having played it throughout the world more than any other living pianist. Ms. Serviarian-Kuhn has appeared with orchestras in the United States, Asia, Central Asia, and Latin America. She has performed with the major orchestras in China, including the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, the China Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, and the China Ballet Orchestra.
Gramophone Magazine’s Ivan March reviewed her CD as "Easily the finest account of Khachaturian's Piano Concerto… this new version on ASV is the one to have… what primarily makes this performance memorable is Serviarian-Kuhn's sense of fantasy, so that her various cadential passages, for all their brilliance, are charismatically quixotic rather than just bravura displays."
The Penguin Guide states that Dora Serviarian-Kuhn “provides a clear first recommendation for a modern version… easily the finest account to have appeared on disc since the pioneering versions of Moura Lympany and William Kapell.”
Born in Beirut, Lebanon of Armenian parentage and commencing her performing career at age four, Ms. Serviarian-Kuhn received her B.A. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music and her M.A. in Piano from the University of Southern California. A visually innovative approach to classical music video featuring Ms. Serviarian-Kuhn performing the third movement of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto is broadcast on Classic Arts Showcase, has been aired on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts, and is posted on YouTube. She created and is executive producer of Khachaturian, a feature-length documentary film on the life and music of Aram Khachaturian, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2003 Hollywood Film Festival and is distributed on DVD by Video Artists International (VAI).
Dora Serviarian-Kuhn’s performances include the Philharmonia of Russia at the Khachaturian Centennial Celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing (where she performed both the Khachaturian and the Grieg Piano Concertos on the same program), and the Boston Pops Orchestra,
She records for Sanctuary Classics / ASV. Her recording of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto was selected by ASV for its twenty-first anniversary Platinum Series.
Her husband is Robert Lawrence Kuhn, international investment banker, China expert, and creator/host of the PBS / public television series Closer To Truth. They have three children: Aaron (film editor); Adam (film studio finance), and Daniella (actress)
