Sunset ChamberFest is thrilled to welcome violinist Movses Pogossian performing Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet on July 18. He teaches at UCLA and is artistic director of Dilijan, which for 15 seasons, has been one of LA’s most distinguished chamber music series. He discusses his recent acclaimed Tigran Mansurian recording project for ECM Records (featuring Sunset’s Director Mike Kaufman), his musical training and heroes, as well as his association with Shostakovich’s music.

After the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival was cancelled in 2020, cellists were really disappointed. For us, this is really the best thing that happens in LA every four years. So I chose to have a mini-cello festival as part of Sunset ChamberFest in 2021, dedicating the first two programmes to the Piatigorsky Festival and its founder, Ralph Kirshbaum.