Samuel Alumian

Samvel Alumyan was a Soviet-Armenian classical pianist, winner of the George Enescu International Piano Competition in 1967. He was a student of Yakov Flier at the Moscow Conservatory, later becoming his assistant. He was a frequent collaborator of violinist Leonid Kogan, with whom he toured and recorded. During his years teaching at the Moscow Conservatory, one of his students was pianist Ksenia Knorre, daughter of Vera Gornostayeva, and mother of pianist Lukas Geniušas.