Setrak Setrakian
Setrak Setrakian (Arabic: ستراك ستراكيان) (b. 1938 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Armenian composer and pianist, the former Director of Ganatchian College of Music in Lebanon, and a Professor of Piano, Harmony and Composition.
However, he is also noted for the fact that he has passed off the recordings of other artists as his own, and much of the information that he claims in his biographies has no real evidence to support it.
[edit] Admission of Fake Recordings
In 2007 it was alleged that several of his recordings were determined to be the work of other pianists, most notably Martha Argerich.[1]
However, in the course of discussion, Setrak admitted to having passed off other people's recordings as his own on the Piano Society website.
It was determined through musical analysis, that he had faked his recordings of: Prokofiev - Toccata Op.11, actually recorded by Martha Argerich, Prokofiev Sonata op.82, actually recorded by Martha Argerich, Warsaw Concerto, actually a copy of a midi file by Eric Halstead, and the Shostakovich Piano Trio, a recording on Erato by Yablonsky, Berezovsky, and Repin.
Setrak has since been removed from the Piano Society website.
