Armenian-American Anoush Pogossian is in her junior year at Columbia University and The Juilliard School, where she studies with Alan Kay and is also pursuing a B.A. in Psychology. A 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Anoush was recently selected as a finalist in Juilliard’s 2022 Clarinet Concerto Competition, and also Grand Prize winner of The Music Center’s 2020 “Spotlight” Awards in her hometown, Los Angeles. Anoush was a 2022 Norfolk Chamber Music Fellow, and has also participated in festivals including the YellowBarn Young Artists Program and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA. Raised in a family of professional musicians, she and her family collaborate often, and, during the pandemic, premiered several works written for them in a series of online concerts supporting organizations including Music for Food and The Midnight Mission in LA. Through her studies at Columbia, she is particularly interested in neuropsychological mechanisms of learning and perception.
Anoush’s previous teachers include Michael Yoshimi and Michele Zukovsky.
