Mariam Nazarian

Mariam Nazarian made her Carnegie Hall debut at age 16 as the youngest pianist in Carnegie’s history to have performed J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. As producer and associate director of the Scheide Fund (Princeton) and, recently, founder of Nazarian Music & Media, she has produced numerous benefit concerts featuring the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner; the Vienna, Zurich, and English Chamber Orchestras; Festival Strings Lucerne; Bach-Collegium Stuttgart; and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Nazarian has co-produced guest speaker appearances with Harvard University’s Office for the Arts and has served as programming advisor to the Arts Council of Princeton. Her recent film-related work includes development for a dance marathon-themed feature produced by Benjamin Millepied, Philip Kaufman’s MESHUGAH, as well as role coaching for Elijah Wood in GRAND PIANO. Nazarian is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music (NYC) and Harvard University.