Sergei Khachatryan

Sergei Khachatryan

Sergei Khachatryan ( Armenian Սերգեյ Խաչատրյան Sergei Chač'atrjan , * 5. April 1985 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian violinist .

Life

Sergei Chatschatrjan was born in 1985 to a family of musicians in the Armenian capital Yerevan and has lived in Germany since 1993. At the age of six he received his first violin lessons from Petros Haykazyan in Armenia, then he studied with Grigori Schislin in Würzburg and from 1996 he was a student of Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe University of Music . As a nine-year-old Sergei Chatschatrjan gave his first concert with orchestra in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus. Two years later he made his chamber music debut in Marignane, France. He has since performed with well-known orchestras around the world. In many of his appearances, Sergei Chatschatrjan is accompanied by his sister Lusine Chatschatrjan, who is also already pursuing an international career.

Artistic career

Concert appearances

After making his British concert debut with the English Chamber Orchestra , he has already performed in Great Britain with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonia. He has also performed with the Portuguese Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Günther Herbig , the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hugh Wolff , Eiji Que and Daniel Harding , and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Mikko Franck and Tugan Sokhiev, the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Sian Edwards , the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Swensen, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Fedossejew , the Orchester National de France , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonics under Kurt Masur , the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Manfred Honeck , the BBC Manchester under Wassili Sinajski and Gianandrea Noseda , the Cleveland Orchestra under Roberto Abbado , Kurt Masur and Jahja Ling , the Munich Chamber Orchestra with Anne-Sophie Mutter .

His concert career has taken him to concert halls such as the Alte Oper (Frankfurt / Main), Symphony Hall (Birmingham) , Barbican Hall , Wigmore Hall , Royal Albert Hall (London), Théâtre Châtelet , Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , Louvre (Paris), and the Schauspielhaus (Berlin), Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), Suntory Hall and Orchard Hall (Tokyo), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Konzerthaus und Musikverein (Vienna), Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), La Scala (Milan ), Albert Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center, New York).

In 2017, Khachatryan played at the Salzburg Festival with great success, the Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven . He was accompanied by the Camerata Salzburg Orchestra under the direction of Lorenzo Viotti . The concert was broadcast on the television channel Arte on August 26, 2017 .

Recordings and recorded instruments

In October 2002 his first CD was released by EMI Classics , in October 2003 the second CD was released by Naive. Chatschatrjan is currently a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Sergei Chatschatrjan played a violin by JB Guadagnini from the 18th century, which the Baden-Württemberg State Collection had made available to him. In 2005 the Nippon Music Foundation awarded him a " Huggins " Stradivari 1708 for four years as the winner of the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth . Since October 2010 he has played the "Ysaye" Guarneri del Gesù from 1740, also belonging to the Nippon Music Foundation.

Honors, awards

In 2000 he won second prize at the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna as well as first prizes at the Louis Spohr Competition in Freiburg and at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki, which he won at the age of 15 as the youngest participant of all time . He also received a special award for the best interpretation of Sibelius' violin concerto. In 2002 Chatschatrjan won second prize in the J. Gingold competition in Indianapolis. In 2003 he received the Bremen Music Festival award . In 2005 he won the renowned Queen Elisabeth violin competition in Brussels.

literature

• Sergey Khachatryan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/2013 of April 9, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Personal website
• Works by and about Sergey Khachatryan in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albums by Sergey Khachatryan
2. ↑ nmf.or.jp: About Nippon Music Foundation - Instruments Owned by Nippon Music Foundation , accessed January 11, 2018
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.