Sergey Khachatryan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2000 he won first prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius competition in Helsinki, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition. In 2005 he won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
Sergey has performed with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich.
The violinist’s American debut took place in 2004 with the Cleveland Orchestra. This was followed by appearances with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. In August 2005 Sergey performed at the Ravinia and Blossom Festivals and in 2006 he made his debut at the Mostly Mozart festival where he performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto under Osmo Vänskä.
Khachatryan has performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London on several occasions with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexander Lazarev and Tugan Sokhiev. With the London Philharmonic Orchestra Sergey Khachatryan has performed the Bach Double Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Sibelius Violin Concerto under Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Khachaturian Violin Concerto (on a tour of the USA in March 2006). In January 2011 the musician made his London debut with the London Symphony Orchestra, performing Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto under Valery Gergiev.
Since December 2002 Sergey Khachatryan has frequently performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, and in 2005 he made his debut at the BBC Proms under Vassily Sinaisky.
Together with Valery Gergiev, Sergey Khachatryan regularly works with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St Petersburg and at the Mikkeli Festival (Finland). The 2010–11 season saw the musician’s debut performances with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Sergey Khachatryan has also appeared with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock, the Orchestre National de Belgique under James Gaffigan and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki; he has also performed the Berg Violin Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits.
The violinist’s engagements for the 2011-12 season include concerts with the Bamberger Symphoniker under Herbert Blomstedt, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Juraj Valcuha, the Orchestre de Paris under Andris Nelsons, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra with Lawrence Foster and the world premiere of a new concerto by Arthur Aharonian with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta orchestra.
With his sister Lusine Khachatryan, Sergey has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Carnegie Hall, the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In the 2011-12 season Sergey and Lusine will perform recitals at Chicago University (as part of the series Chicago University Presents), the Detroit Chamber Music Society, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
The violinist’s recording of the Sibelius Concerto was released by Naïve Classique in October 2003. This was followed by a double Shostakovich Concerto disc with the Orchestre National de France under Kurt Masur. 2008 saw the release of a disc of the Shostakovich and Franck Sonatas for Violin and Piano and most recently came the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Bach.
Sergey plays the 1740 “Ysaÿe” Guarneri violin on kind loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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