Sergei Khachatryan
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Sergei Khachatryan (Armenian: Սերգեյ Խաչատրյան; also spelled Sergey Khachatryan) is a violinist who was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1985.
He won the Sibelius violin competition in 2000, the youngest person to ever win it, and in 2005, he took the First Prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Khachatryan plays the 1708 ‘Huggins’ Stradivarius violin on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation. He records for Naïve Classique.
He made his New York City debut on August 4, 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.
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