Join Raffi and violinist Yuri Segawa for an exciting musical journey exploring the legacy of extraordinary composers Stravinsky, Komitas, Ysaye, Rachmaninoff and Baghdasarian. There will be music for violin and piano and for piano solo as well. The concert will take place on October 16, 2011 @3PM at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

October 16, 2011 - Recital with violinist Yuri Segawa, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

November 14-30, 2011 - Tour of Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Toyohashi)

Recording of a debut solo album “Bold & Beautiful” for IMC Music in Tokyo

Adjudication for International Chopin Competition in Asia

Master Classes and Recitals

March 28, 2012 - Guest Soloist in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with Carroll University Wind Symphony       South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI

April 1, 2012 - Guest Soloist in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with Carroll University Wind Symphony         Shattuck Music Center, Waukesha, WI

April 3, 2012 - Guest Soloist in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with Carroll University Wind Symphony             finale event for International Music Festival hosted by World Projects, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, IL

April 21 and 22, 2012 - Rachmaninoff Concerto No.2 with Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra                 @1800 Theater-Sentry, Stevens Point, WI

May 13, 2012 - Solo Recital on WPR, “Live from the Chazen”, Madison, WI

July 9, 2012 - Recital in Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic Taliesin Theater, Spring Green, WI

As a Yamaha Performing Artist, Raffi was given a beautiful Yamaha Concert Grand CFIIIS for a long-term use, courtesy of the Yamaha Artist Services in New York and Yamaha Corporation of America.