Classical music, Gypsy jazz and more!
Patil Zakarian is a laureate of the Gulf International Chopin Piano Competition, the Kuwait International Chopin Piano Competition (2010), and F. Liszt Grand Prix, a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland to attend a master course in Warsaw under the tutelage of Janusz Olejniczak, and a recital marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Chopin.
She is an awardee of the Golden Key Composition Competition in New York (2012) for her piano composition with an invitation to perform it in Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. Her music has been performed in the UK, France, Netherlands, Kuwait, Poland, Bulgaria, and broadcast during radio programmes. In 2017, one of her piano works, Bloozjan, was released in the CD of Dutch jazz-pianist Marcel Worms.
Apart from performance and compositional work, Patil Zakarian is a skilled piano teacher, lauded by parents and students alike for her engaging teaching style, efficiency and enthusiasm.