Manoug Parikian

Manoug Parikian (15 September 1920 – 24 December 1987) was a British concert violinist and violin professor of Armenian descent.

Parikian was born in Mersin, Turkey. He studied in London, made his solo début in 1947 and led several orchestras - the Liverpool Philharmonic, London's Philharmonia Orchestra from 1949 to 1957, the Yorkshire Sinfonia from 1976 to 1978 - and was musical director of the Manchester Camerata from 1980 to 1984.^[1]

He was an admired teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.^[1] He also championed contemporary composers, many of whom wrote works for him: examples include Thea Musgrave's Colloquy (1960),^[2] Gordon Crosse's Violin Concerto No. 2,^[3] Alexander Goehr's Violin Concerto (1961–62)^[4] and Hugh Wood's Violin Concerto. Benjamin Britten also composed for Parikian a cadenza to Mozart's Adagio for Violin and Orchestra K261 in 1951.^[5]

Parikian died in Oxford in 1987, aged 67.

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