BACH: Sonata No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015
BAGHDASARYAN: Rhapsody
KOMITAS: Dances for Piano
BUSONI: Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the 8th Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the competition. In 2005, he was awarded First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
In recent seasons, Sergey has performed with the Bamberg Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt and Jonathan Nott, the Munich Philharmonic under James Gaffigan, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Juraj Valčuha, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev and the Orchestre de Paris under Andris Nelsons. He has also collaborated with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Sergey’s most recent appearances in the United States have included performances with the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington under Vasily Petrenko. He has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony, as well as at the Ravinia, Blossom and Mostly Mozart festivals.
Sergey has a particularly close relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked, both in London and on tour, include Sir Charles Mackerras, Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tugan Sokhiev and Juraj Valčuha. He returned to the orchestra during the 2013/14 season to perform Berg’s Violin Concerto under David Afkham. Other highlights of the same season included projects with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris.
Together with his sister, Lusine Khachatryan, Sergey has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Cité de la Musique in Paris, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. In spring 2014, the duo undertook a major recital tour performing Brahms’ three Sonatas for Violin and Piano.
Sergey’s discography for Naïve Classique includes the Sibelius and Khachaturian concertos with Sinfonia Varsovia and Emmanuel Krivine, both Shostakovich concertos with the Orchestre National de France and Kurt Masur, a recording of the violin and piano sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck, and the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by J. S. Bach. An album devoted to Brahms’ violin and piano sonatas was released in June 2013.
Sergey plays the 1740 Guarneri “Ysaÿe” violin, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation.
He received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2014.
Lusine Khachatryan’s international concert career has brought her to prestigious venues including the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Friedrich-Thiersch-Saal at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Herkulessaal in Munich, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Louvre, Salle Gaveau and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Flagey and Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Carnegie Hall in New York, Grand Théâtre de Québec, Oscar Peterson Hall in Montréal, HOAM Art Hall in Seoul, Oji Hall in Tokyo and the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan.
Lusine Khachatryan has received numerous prizes and distinctions throughout her artistic development. These include the Baden Cultural Foundation’s Prize for Musical Progress in 1999, a scholarship from the Friends of the Karlsruhe University of Music in 2000, and special funding from the German foundation Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in 2001.
She received awards at the Città di Ostra and Città di Marsala international piano competitions in Italy in 2003, and at the 2nd European Piano Competition in Normandy, held in Ouistreham and Le Havre, France, in 2009.
Lusine Khachatryan has appeared at many renowned festivals, including the Chopin Year Festival in Yerevan, the Festival del Mediterrani in Valencia, the Vladimir Nielsen Piano Festival and Ravinia Music Festival in the United States, Musikfest Bremen and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, the Bartók + Mozart International Music Festival in Miskolc, Hungary, Snow and Symphony in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Nuit du Succès in Cannes, France.
Equally accomplished as a soloist with both chamber and symphony orchestras, she has collaborated with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under R. Gazarian, Orchestre Régional de Cannes under P. Bender, Sinfonia Varsovia under P. Csaba, the Euregio Chamber Orchestra under V. Khachatryan, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra under E. Topchjan and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador under A. Manzano.
Lusine also regularly performs in duo with her brother, celebrated violinist Sergey Khachatryan. Together, they have recorded the violin and piano sonatas by C. Franck and D. Shostakovich for the French label Naïve, as well as their Debut CD for EMI Classics.
