Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the eighth International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the competition. In 2005, he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. His recent appearances include performances with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Korean National Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestre national de Belgique, Queensland Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, and Bochumer Symphoniker. He also embarked on an extended tour of Spain with the Basque National Orchestra as well as on a North American tour with the Armenian National Philharmonic, whose destinations included Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the Maison symphonique de Montréal, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Sergey and his sister Lusine’s album My Armenia was released on the Naïve label and is dedicated to commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The album garnered the 2016 Echo Klassik Award in the category Chamber Music Recording.