SergeyKhachatryan

This 24/25 season Sergey’s international presence is sustained by performances with RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Cristian Măcelaru), Lyon National Orchestra (Nikolaj Znaider), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Myung-Whun Chung), Montréal Symphony Orchestra (Rafael Payare), Frankfurter Museumsorchester (Michael Sanderling), Orquesta de Valencia (Alexander Liebrich), Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Tarmo Peltokoski) and a Spanish tour with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (Joana Carneiro).

Highlights of the previous seasons include Sergey’s residency with Orquesta de Valencia, comprising several concerts conducted by Alexander Liebreich and a chamber project, Sergey’s residency at the BOZAR in Brussels which comprised a pair of recitals and a concert with Orchestre National de Belgique and Hugo Wolff. Re-invitations included the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Rotterdam and Royal Flemish Philharmonic orchestras, and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Sergey also embarked on a tour of the US and Europe with Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan with a programme entitled Transfigured Nights featuring the music of Beethoven, Schoenberg and Shostakovich. Other recent projects included a tour of Japan with the Nippon Foundation, and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Lucerne Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

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 competition’s history. In 2005 he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.