The Prima Trio, which features violinist Farhad Hudiyev, clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan, and pianist Anastasia Dedik, was formed in 2004 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The Prima Trio’s performances throughout the United States including appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Oakton Chamber Music Series in Washington D.C., and in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Illinois and Indiana states. In June 2006 the ensemble participated in the Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival (Hampden-Sydney, Virginia). As grand-prize winners of the prestigious 2007 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, their future engagements include appearances at the Emilia Romagna Music Festival in Modena, Italy, in August 2008, and concerts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan in October 2007. The Prima Trio was featured on WCLV Radio in the “Around Noon” show with Dew Perry, as well as on classical station WKCU. Highlights of the 2007-2008 season also include performances at the Oberlin College Presidential Inauguration Concert in November 2, 2007, performance in Cleveland Chamber Music Society in February 26, 2008 and concerts in Germany and Italy.

FARHAD HUDIYEV, violin

Farhad Hudiyev (violin) is originally from Ashgabad, Turkmenistan, where he studied violin and composition with Vera Abaeva at the Special Music School. He distinguished himself at the age of 10 as the youngest performer ever selected to play with the National Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan, and at 12 he won a scholarship to attend the New Names Festival in Suzdal, Russia, which was sponsored by the Moscow Conservatory. He was named the most promising young musician at the festival, and earned the top award, the Golden Apple. Mr. Hudiyev has performed in Ashgabad, Suzdal, Moscow, and Odessa (Ukraine) as both a soloist and as a member of the violin ensemble of Turkmenistan. He came to the United States in 2001 under a full scholarship with the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied with Paul Sonner and Michael Albaugh. Currently in his forth year of study with Professor of Violin Milan Vitek at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mr. Hudiyev won an honorable mention in the 2004 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer awards, held in May 2004 at Lincoln Center in New York, for his symphonic work Turkmenistan. In June 2006, he won third prize and a $1,000 scholarship at the 30th Annual Glenn Miller Competition, held in Clarinda, Iowa, the legendary musician’s birthplace. His other awards include the Neil Rabaut Composition Prize from the Interlochen Arts Academy.

BORIS ALLAKHVERDYAN, clarinet

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan of Armenian descent, Boris Allakhverdyan started taking clarinet lessons from his father at age 9, shortly after his family moved to Russia. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music Degree with honors in 2006. Boris is currently completing the Artist Diploma program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Richard Hawkins, Rafael Bagdasarian and Valery Allakhverdyan.

A first-prize winner of the Hellam Competition, the Tuesday Musical Competition and the Oberlin Concerto Competition, Mr. Allakhverdyan appeared as a soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra and the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra. He participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy (under the direction of Pierre Boulez), the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Yale Summer School of Music), the Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival and the International Music Festival (Offenbach, Germany). Since March 2007 he has held the second clarinet position with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra (Youngstown, Ohio). Mr. Allakhverdyan has performed as a soloist and with orchestras in Russia, Germany, Denmark, Venezuela, Switzerland and the United States of America.

ANASTASIA DEDIK, piano

Russian pianist Anastasia Dedik began her piano studies with her mother at age 5. In 1999, she graduated from the pre-conservatory division of the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the instruction of Asya Rubina and was accepted to the Conservatory without exams. She studied with Professors Elena Shishko and Valery Vishnevsky and received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in 2004. In 2006, on a full scholarship, Ms. Dedik earned the Artist Diploma at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying with Professor Sedmara Z. Rutstein. Ms. Dedik is continuing her education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, under the tutelage of Matti Raekallio.  Anastasia Dedik has performed as soloist and featured pianist with orchestras in Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Holland, and the United States. 

Her 2007-08 concert season includes three performances at Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), a performance at the Bechstein Salon in New York for broadcast on ABC, a recital and master class at the University of South Dakota (Sioux Falls), and solo recitals in Italy, Germany, and Russia.

Ms. Dedik’s début solo album was released in February, 2008 (GPM Records, Recco, Italy).

A first-prize winner of the 2005 Russian International Piano Competition (San Jose, California), the 2006 Lee Biennial Piano Competition (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), the 2006 Rovero d’Oro International Piano Competition (San Bartolomeo, Italy), the Buono and Bradshaw International Piano Competition (New York, 2007) and the Asti International Piano Competition (Asti, Italy). 

Ms. Dedik was invited to take part and perform at the Petrouchka Ball, a traditional Russian ball held annually in New York City. It is a major fundraising event for Russian orphans, which last year featured such famous artists as Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maria Butyrskaya and others.