Jared Blajian

Cellist Jared Blajian has performed as soloist as well as a chamber and orchestral musician on some of the most prominent stages in the world including Carnegie Hall and Severance Hall in Cleveland. He is committed to engaging audiences, communicating passion and joy, and changing lives through music. Blajian has taught at the Pascale Music Institute in Pasadena, CA, in community engagement through the Cleveland Institute, the Sitka Cello Seminar, the Heifetz Institute, and the Perlman Music Program. A dedicated chamber musician, Blajian has studied with members of the Cleveland, Guarneri, and Juilliard quartets along with members of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. At the Cleveland Institute, he was a member of the Intensive String Quartet Seminar, run by members of the Cavani Quartet, and the Advanced Piano Trio Program, led by cellist, Sharon Robinson. He has attended festivals including Music@Menlo, the International Musician's Seminar at Prussia Cove, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Perlman Music Program, and the Heifetz Institute — where he was selected to participate in both a “Heifetz on Tour” and the inaugural “Heifetz-Ensemble-in-Residence” program. Blajian received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Dr. Melissa Kraut and received his Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California as a student of cellist Ralph Kirshbaum. He is currently on the faculty at the Thurnauer School of Music.