Lusine Khachatryan

Lusine Khachatryan was born in a musical family in 1983 in Yerevan (Armenia) and has lived in Germany since 1993. She began her music studies on the piano at the age of six with her parents.
From 2001–2008 she studied at the Karlsruhe Hochschule für Musik where she obtained two Masters degrees, one in piano playing (class of Professor Sontraud Speidel) and one in chamber music (class of Dr Professor Saule Tatubaeva).

She has participated in numerous international master classes given by such great musicians as Vera Gornostaeva, Bronisława Kawalla, Mikhail Voskresensky, Alexei Nasedkin, Rudolf Kehrer, Natalia Troull, Svetlana Navasardyan, Victoria Mushkatkol und Klaus Hellwig. Lusine has participated in a number of international music festivals and concert series including performances in Berkeley’s Hertz Hall (USA 2009), the McCarter Theatre Center (USA 2009), Rome’s Aula Magna (Italy 2009), the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre (St Petersburg, Russia 2009), the Herkulessaal in Munich (Germany 2009), the Serate Musicali in Milan (Italy 2009), the International Theatre in Frankfurt (Germany 2009), the Teatre Martín i Soler in Valencia (Spain 2008), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Netherlands 2008), the Carl Bechstein Centrum in Frankfurt (Germany 2007), the Bösendorfer in New York, the Slosberg Recital Hall (Brandeis University, Waltham MA), the Lang Recital Hall in Washington (USA 2007), the Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal, the AGBU Alex Manoogian Cultural Center in Toronto (Canada, 2007), the Caprichos Musicales de Comillas festival (Spain 2007), the Vladimir Nielsen Piano Festival (USA 2007), the  Return festival (Armenia 2007), the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown (USA 2006), the Vancouver Playhouse (Canada 2006), the  Musikfest Bremen (Germany, 2004), the  Bartók and Mozart music festival in Miskolc (Hungary, 2003), the  Snow and Symphony music festival in St Moritz (Switzerland, 2002), the Kajaani Music Festival (Finland 2001), the  Nuits musicales du Suquet festival in Cannes (France, 2000) and the IX International Music Festival in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (France, 2000).

Lusine has performed as duo partner with her brother, the violinist Sergey Khachatryan, at such concert venues as the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Louvre and the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Hoam Art Hall in Seoul, the Oji Hall in Tokyo and Carnegie Hall in New York.

In 2009 Lusine took won 3^rd prize at the II European Piano Competition in Normandy, Ouistreham and Le Havre.

She has received numerous prestigious German awards, among them the music sponsorship award of the Kulturfond Baden and the special prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

In 2002 she released her debut CD with her brother Sergey on EMI Classics, and in 2008 on the NAÏVE label she released a disc of sonatas for piano and violin by César Franck and Dmitry Shostakovich.