Manoug Parikian
{{Short description|British concert violinist and violin professor}}
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Manoug Parikian (15 September 1920 – 24 December 1987) was a British concert violinist and violin professor.
Early life
Career
Parikian made his solo début in 1947 and led several orchestras: the Liverpool Philharmonic (1947–1948),Mitchell (2004), p. 487 London's Philharmonia Orchestra (1949–1957), the Yorkshire Sinfonia 1976–1978. He was musical director of the Manchester Camerata from 1980–1984.{{cite news | author=Anon | title=Obituaries : PASSINGS : Manoug Parikian; Violinist | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-25-mn-20823-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | date=1987-12-25 | access-date=2011-12-05}} He also led the English Opera Group Orchestra between 1949 and 1951, and participated in various Aldeburgh Festival concerts as a chamber musician as well as in opera productions.
He was an admired teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. He also championed contemporary composers, many of whom wrote works for him: examples include Thea Musgrave's Colloquy (1960),{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title =Thea Musgrave: Colloquy | publisher =Music Sales | url =http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&WorkId_3041=11621 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 13 August 2014 }} Gordon Crosse's Violin Concerto No. 2,Walsh, Stephen. "Gordon Crosse's Violin Concerto No. 2" in Tempo New Series, No. 92 (Spring, 1970): pp. 34-36 Alexander Goehr's Violin Concerto (1961–1962){{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title =Concerto - Alexander Goehr| publisher =Schott International| url =http://www.schott-international.com/shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=/essh/hire_material/show,152074.html| doi = | accessdate = 13 August 2014 }} 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,{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title =BTC1038 CADENZAS TO MOZART'S ADAGIO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA IN E, K261| work =Britten Thematic Catalogue | date = 25 June 1951| publisher =Britten Pears Foundation| url =http://93.93.131.5/works/BTC1038| format = | doi = | accessdate = 13 August 2014 }} and was assisted by Parikian when revising the solo part of his own violin concerto, originally composed in 1938–1939.
Personal life
In 1957, he married the musician turned antiquarian bookseller Diana Carbutt, who was divorced from the conductor Neville Marriner, with whom she had one son, the clarinettist Andrew Marriner, and one daughter, the writer Susie Harries. They had two sons together, Stepan (Step) and Levon (Lev).{{cite news|last1=Poole-Wilson|first1=Nicholas|title=Diana Parikian: Noted antiquarian bookseller|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/diana-parikian-noted-antiquarian-bookseller-7697627.html|accessdate=2 October 2016|work=The Independent|date=30 April 2012}}
Parikian died in Oxford in 1987, aged 67. On the day of his death (Christmas Eve) BBC2 featured a performance of his, in the Antonio Stradivari Gala Celebration. His death was announced after the broadcast.
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- {{cite book | last= Mitchell| first= Donald |editor=Reed, Philip |editor2=Cooke, Mervyne |year=2004 | title= Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume III, 1946–1951 | location=London | publisher=Faber and Faber | isbn=057122282X }}
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