Lusine Khachatryan

Lusine Khachatryan's successful international concert performances have inspired audiences in such venues as: Alte Oper in Frankfurt/Main; Friedrich-Thiersch-Saal / Kurhaus in Wiesbaden; Herkulessaal in Munich; Liederhalle in Stuttgart; Tonhalle in Zürich; Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Louvre, Salle Gaveau and Théâtre des Champes-Élysees in Paris; Wigmore Hall in London; Flagey and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, National Concert Hall in Dublin; Palau de la Musica in Barcelona; Auditorio Nacional Madrid; Carnegie Hall in New York; Grande Théâtre de Québec; Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal; HOAM Art Hall in Seoul; Oji Hall in Tokyo and the A. Khachaturyan Concert Hall in Erevan.

Lusine Khachatryan has received numerous awards and recognition during her artistic development period. Among them are: the Musical Advancement Award of the Baden Cultural Foundation in 1999; the Scholarship of the Friends Circle of the Music Academy of Karlsruhe in 2000; and a special grant from the German foundation, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in 2001. She is a prizewinner in the International Piano Competition in “Città di Ostra”, “Città di Marsala”, in Italy (2003), and in the 2nd European Piano Competition in Normandy, Ouistreham and Le Havre, France (2009).

Lusine Khachatryan has performed in many renowned festivals such as Chopin Year Festival (Erevan, Armenia); the I Festival del Mediterrani (Valencia, Spain); the Vladimir Nielsen Piano Festival and the Ravinia Music Festival (USA); the Musikfest Bremen and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany); Edinburgh International Music Festival (Scotland); the International Music Festival “Bartok + Mozart” (Miskolci, Hungary); the “Snow and Symphony” Music Festival (St. Moritz, Switzerland); and the “Nuit du Succee” (Cannes, France).

She is an equally compelling performer with Chamber and Symphony orchestras having performed with the Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra under R. Gazarian, the Orchestra Regional de Cannes under P. Bender, the Warsaw Sinfonia Orchestra under P. Csaba, the “Euregio” Chamber Orchestra under V. Khachatryan, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra under E. Topchian, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nacional del Ecuador under A. Manzano.

Lusine Khachatryan also performs regularly as duo-partner with her brother, renowned violinist Sergey Khachatryan. With him she has recorded Sonatas for Violin and Piano by C. Franck and D. Schostakovitch on the French label Naïve and their “Debut CD” on EMI Classics.