Anoush Pogossian
As a performer and educator, Armenian American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is committed to exploration and empowerment through music. An avid chamber and solo musician based in New York City, she especially loves working with composers and using contemporary music as a way of fostering meaningful collaboration and dialogue. A 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she received 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 based on Armenian folk songs.
Anoush is an Artist Diploma candidate at The Juilliard School, studying with Anthony McGill and Alan R. Kay. She holds a master’s degree from Juilliard and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with honors from Columbia University, where she explored learning and perception as they relate to music education and development. Through Juilliard’s Office of Community Engagement, she taught in music classrooms in NYC public schools as a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow and was the clarinet teaching fellow in the Music Advancement Program. In her free time, Anoush loves to go on long walks, read, and try new crafts.
As part of her fellowship with Ensemble Connect, Anoush teaches at IS78 Roy H. Mann in Brooklyn.
