ABOUT | Anoush Pogossian

Through all of her work, clarinetist Anoush Pogossian aims to facilitate meaningful explorations of music and its potential, pushing and interrogating its limits. Whether that may be through the world premiere of a colleague's piece, or teaching ukulele in a second-grade general music class, Anoush strongly believes in the promise of art and collaboration to empower people of all ages and backgrounds-- on and (especially) off the stage.

A fervent advocate of new music, Anoush regularly collaborates with composers to perform, and often premiere, their works. She has recently worked closely with leading composers including Jörg Widmann, Reena Esmail, Jessie Montgomery, Brett Dean, Hilda Paredes, Ian Krouse, Timo Andres, to name a few, as well as several peer composers at Juilliard and various festivals, in chamber and solo settings. Recent performances at chamber music festivals including Yellow Barn, Skaneateles, Norfolk, Sebago-Long Lake, and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. Upcoming chamber music performances this fall include collaborations with Kim Kashkashian, Shai Wosner, Natasha Brofsky, Hsin-Yun Huang, and members of the Brentano and Katarina String Quartets.

Anoush was recently featured on a WQXR Young Artist Showcase as recipient of the 2025 Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach for “Komitas and Friends: Armenian Folk Music, Then and Now,” a cultural exchange project to commission, record, and perform five pieces for clarinet each based on a different Armenian folk song. A 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Anoush is also a proud recipient of scholarships from the Armenian General Benevolent Union, Armenian Educational Foundation, and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship. She was selected as a finalist in Juilliard’s 2022 Clarinet Concerto Competition during her sophomore year, and, in 2020, was awarded the Grand Prize of the 2020 Music Center’s “Spotlight” Awards in her hometown, Los Angeles.

A fellow in Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect for the 2025-2027 seasons, Anoush is also pursuing her Artist Diploma at Juilliard under the tutelage of Anthony McGill and Alan R. Kay. She recently received her Masters Degree at The Juilliard School with Alan R. Kay, and also holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology with honors from Columbia University through the Columbia/Juilliard dual-degree program. Through Juilliard’s Office of Community Engagement, Anoush worked with public school music classrooms across NYC as a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow, and was the clarinet teaching fellow in the Music Advancement Program. Additionally, she was a member of the AGAPE Quartet, a group in the Juilliard Gluck Community Performance Program dedicated to performing their own arrangements of a wide array of genres in and beyond the concert hall.

Previously, Anoush studied with Michael Yoshimi at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, where she was a member of the Ed and Mari Edelman Honors Chamber Music Institute, as well as with Michele Zukovsky. In her spare time, she loves to go on long walks, experiment with coffee, and play/sing Lieder very slowly (and poorly) at the piano.