Manoug Parikian (15 September 1920 – 24 December 1987) was a British concert violinist and violin professor.
[2] He also championed contemporary composers, many of whom wrote works for him: examples include Thea Musgrave's Colloquy (1960),[3] Gordon Crosse's Violin Concerto No.
Benjamin Britten also composed for Parikian a cadenza to Mozart's Adagio for Violin and Orchestra K261 in 1951,[6] and was assisted by Parikian when revising the solo part of his own violin concerto, originally composed in 1938–1939.
In 1957, he married the musician turned antiquarian bookseller Diana Carbutt, who was divorced from the conductor Neville Marriner, with whom she had one son, the clarinettist Andrew Marriner, and one daughter, the writer Susie Harries.
On the day of his death (Christmas Eve) BBC2 featured a performance of his, in the Antonio Stradivari Gala Celebration.