Sergey Khachatryan by Suren Manvelyan Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize a

Sergey Khachatryan by Suren Manvelyan

Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition. In 2005 he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

At the Queen Elisabeth Competition, he won the 1708 “Huggins” Stradivarius violin (the price of a Stradivarius violin can go up to 45 million dollars) on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation for four years.

He appears regularly with many of the world’s top tier orchestras and conductors including most recent appearances in the US were with the Seattle Symphony (Ludovic Morlot) and National Symphony Orchestra (Washington) (Vasily Petrenko). He has also visited the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony as well as the Ravinia, Blossom and Mostly Mozart Festivals.

In recent seasons, Sergey has performed with the Bamberger Symphoniker (Herbert Blomstedt and Jonathan Nott), Munich Philharmonic (James Gaffigan), Swedish Radio Symphony (Valcuha), Mariinsky Orchestra (Valery Gergiev) and Orchestre de Paris (Andris Nelsons). He has also collaborated with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony.

Sergey’s discography on Naïve Classique includes the Sibelius and Khachaturian concerti with Sinfonia Varsovia and Emmanuel Krivine, both Shostakovich concerti with the Orchestre National de France and Kurt Masur, a recording of the Shostakovich and Franck sonatas for violin and piano and the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach. A disc of the Brahms sonatas for violin and piano was released in June 2013.

Sergey plays the 1740 ‘Ysaÿe’ Guarneri violin on kind loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

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