Haik Georgievich Kazazyan |

Haik Kazazyan

Born in 1982 in Yerevan. He studied at the Sayat-Nova Music School in Yerevan in the class of Professor Levon Zoryan. In 1993-1995 became a laureate of several republican competitions. Having received the Grand Prix of the Amadeus-95 competition (Belgium), he was invited to Belgium and France with solo concerts. In 1996 he moved to Moscow, where he continued his education in the class of Professor Eduard Grach at the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School, the Moscow Conservatory and postgraduate studies. In 2006-2008 Trained with Professor Ilya Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London. Participated in master classes with Ida Handel, Shlomo Mints, Boris Kushnir and Pamela Frank. Since 2008 he has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory at the violin department under the guidance of Professor Eduard Grach.

Laureate of many international competitions, including Kloster-Schontale (Germany), Yampolsky (Russia), Wieniawski in Poznan (Poland), Tchaikovsky in Moscow (2002 and 2015), Sion (Switzerland), Long and Thibaut in Paris (France), in Tongyong (South Korea), named after Enescu in Bucharest (Romania).

Performs in Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland, Macedonia, Israel, USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Syria. Plays at Carnegie Hall in New York, the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Chamber Hall of the Moscow International House of Music, the State Kremlin Palace, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, the Chatelet Theater and the Gaveau Room in Paris.

Participated in music festivals in Verbier, Sion (Switzerland), Tongyeong (South Korea), Arts Square in St. Petersburg, the Musical Kremlin in Moscow, Stars on Baikal in Irkutsk, the Crescendo festival and others. Since 2002, he has been constantly performing in concerts of the Moscow Philharmonic.

Among the ensembles with which Gaik Kazazyan has collaborated are the Russian National Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Orchestra of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, New Russia, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, the Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of France, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Irish National Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra. Performs with famous conductors, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alan Buribaev, Valery Gergiev, Eduard Grach, Jonathan Darlington, Vladimir Ziva, Pavel Kogan, Teodor Currentzis, Alexander Lazarev, Alexander Liebrich, Andrew Litton, Konstantin Orbelian, Alexander Polyanichko, Yuri Simonov, Myung -Wun Chung. Among his stage partners are pianists Eliso Virsaladze, Frederik Kempf, Alexander Kobrin, Alexei Lyubimov, Denis Matsuev, Ekaterina Mechetina, Vadim Kholodenko, cellists Boris Andrianov, Natalia Gutman, Alexander Knyazev, Alexander Rudin.

Gayk Kazazyan’s concerts are broadcast by Kultura, Mezzo, Brussels Television, BBC and Orpheus radio stations. In 2010, Delos released the violinist’s solo album Opera Fantasies.