Sergey Khachatryan
Sergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. Since 1993 he has lived in Germany where he gave his first orchestral concert at the age of nine in the Kurhaus, Wiesbaden.
He made his New York City debut on 4 August 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä. In June 2013, he played Shostakovich's first Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot conducting.
Prizes
- 2000: 1st prize at the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists
- 2000: 1st prize at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition
- 2000: 2nd prize at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition
- 2002: 2nd prize at the Indianapolis International Violin Competition
- 2005: 1st prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
- 2008: The Medal of Movses Khorenatsi
- 2010: Beethoven Ring Bonn
- 2012: Merited Artist of Armenia
- 2014: Awarded the 'Credit Suisse Young Artist Award' and was granted $82,000
He played with the 1740 Guarneri Del Gesù Ysaÿe violin from October 2010 to May 2022 on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation.
Recordings
He has six CDs at Naïve Records:- Sibelius – Violin Concerto/Khachaturian – Violin Concerto
- Shostakovich – Violin Concerto 1, Op. 77, No. 2, Op. 129
- Franck – Violin Sonata in A major/ Shostakovich – Violin Sonata, Op. 134
- J. S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, BWV 1001–1006
- Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3, with Lusine Khachatryan, piano
- My Armenia - Komitas Krunk - Tsirani Tsar - Seven Folk Dances. Edvard Mirzoyan Introduction & Perpetuum Mobile. Aram Khachaturian Two dances from ballet Gayaneh. Arno Babajanian Six Pictures for Piano Solo. Edvard Baghdasaryan Rhapsody.