ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Tahlia Petrosian Curator and Viola

Violist Tahlia Petrosian enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, director of KLASSIK underground, creative producer and member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Tahlia has performed in Wigmore Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the Semperoper Dresden, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, at Tanglewood Music Centre, and directly on 5th Avenue in New York. Her chamber music partners have included Leif Ove Andsnes, Joshua Bell, Gautier Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.

Having studied with Tabea Zimmermann and Wilfried Strehle in Berlin, Tahlia has received awards from the Australia Council, the Australian Music Foundation in London, the Paul Hindemith Gesellschaft in Berlin, the DAAD and the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund in New York. She has been a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2012 and also performs with the Australian World Orchestra. Tahlia has taught at the Guildhall School of Music in London and at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

In 2016, Tahlia created KLASSIK underground, which has been profiled in publications from New York’s Travel + Leisure magazine to the Financial Review and The Japan Times. The concert series drew nationwide media attention when Anne-Sophie Mutter performed a special

KLASSIK underground benefit concert in Leipzig in a gesture of tolerance and openness at the height of the European migrant crisis.

Tahlia is much sought after as a consultant and creative producer for leading orchestras and arts organisations. In 2019, Tahlia took on the role of Creative Producer at leading music agency HarrisonParrott in London, where she worked with HP Chairman Jasper Parrott to develop special projects for institutions including Tate Modern and the BBC, and was the producer for the highly successful ’50 Years in a Day’ concerts at Southbank Centre for the 50th anniversary of HarrisonParrott. Tahlia also directed the national music programs of the Norwegian arts organisation, ‘Talent Norge’, in 2019.

In 2021, Tahlia created the new online concert format, ‘Resonate’, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, the Karajan Institute and Symmetrica Creative Technology. Also in 2021, Tahlia conceptualised and produced three concert films based on Dante’s Divina Commedia, featuring musicians of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. These films were presented in German cinema and in Australia by the Italian Cultural Institute.

Tahlia has been a guest speaker at the Karajan Conference Salzburg, the ARTS+ Conference Frankfurt, the Avant Première Music + Media Market Vienna and the national Deutscher Orchestertag in Berlin. At the 2022 Edinburgh International