Sergey Khachatryan

One of the greatest artists of his generation, Sergey Khachatryan was born in 1985 in Yerevan, Armenia. In December 2000 he won First Prize in the VIII International Jean Sibelius competition in Helsinki, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition and in 2005 he claimed the First Prize at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.

Sergey has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra; NHK Symphony in Tokyo, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and Kurt Masur and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recent highlights include the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra both with Kurt Masur; and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Haitink. Forthcoming engagements include the LA Philharmonic with Stephan Deneve, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Berliner Philharmoniker with Yuri Termikanov and the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas.

In the last season he performed recitals with sister Lusine Khachatryan at the Wigmore Hall London and Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the National Auditorium in Madrid, Carnegie Hall, and next season will return to the Theatre des Champs Elysees Paris, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Following the success of his Sibelius concerto recording released in October 2003, Sergey’s relationship with Naïve Classique continues with a double Shostakovich concerto disc with the ONF and Masur. As winner of the 2005 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Sergey plays the 1708 ‘Huggins’ Stradivarius violin on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation.