Gramophone, UK
June 3 2005

Sergey Khachatryan wins Queen Elisabeth competition

Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan has won first prize at Belgium’s
prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition.

(Photo: James F Hunkin)

The 20-year-old featured in Gramophone’s One to Watch section in
January 2003, for his debut disc, on EMI. He recently recorded the
Sibelius and Khachaturian concertos on the Naïve label, with the
Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Emmanuel Krivine. His next recordings,
also on Naïve, will be a solo programme, followed by Shostakovich’s
Concertos Nos 1 and 2 with the Orchestre National de France conducted
by Kurt Masur.

Held in Brussels, the Queen Elisabeth competition rotates over a four
year cycle between piano, voice, violin and composition.

Second and third prize were awarded to Yossif Ivanov and Sophia Jaffe.

Martin Cullingford, The Gramophone, features editor

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