SergeyKhachatryan

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• The Armenian National Philharmonic makes a magical stealth appearance at Carnegie Hall

  Carnegie Hall, USA

  Nov 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Violinist Sergey Khachatryan – one of the best out there – was relaxed and released the music without any extraneous effort. Tension was not conveyed by the magnitude of sound but by the concentration of sound. The intensity didn’t come from playing harder, but from inner intention.

    • ArtsJournal
    • 16 November 2023

• Mendelssohn, Auckland Philharmonia

  Auckland Town Hall

  Oct 2023 - Oct 2023

  • From the opening phrase of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, one could sense Sergey Khachatryan’s determination to put his own passionate stamp on its well-mannered melodies. Conductor and orchestra were in total accord, as textures swelled and billowed around him. Khachatryan enjoyed blending with woodwind on Mendelssohn’s sentimental second subject, and his cadenza did indeed come across as an improvised creation, finally allowing the orchestra to rejoin the play.

    • NZHerald
    • 22 October 2023

• Beethoven, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

  Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco

  Jun 2023 - Jun 2023

  • His interpretation of Beethoven's Violin Concerto is unique in its total mastery of the instrument and its projection of a sound with a unique identity. Khachatryan is in osmosis with the orchestra and the conductor: no useless movements, no grimaces or effects. A true musician who serves the divine essence of the composition.

    • Crescendo Magazine
    • 13 June 2023

  • The Beethoven concerto was magnificent, and for three quarters of an hour the hall was in a kind of religious silence. The world seemed to hang on the soloist's bow, the perfection of his notes, the majesty of his phrasing. Khachatryan gave the impression of gaining height, of taking off from the earth. He seemed weightless. By the time of the encore he was in another world, his performance almost immaterial.

    • ConcertoNet
    • 06 June 2023

• Bruch, Galicia Symphony Orchestra

  Palacio de la Ópera, Galicia

  Oct 2022 - Oct 2022

  • With Khachatryan we enjoyed a first-rate violinist who astonished, beyond his overwhelming technique, by the warmth and density of his sound, enriched by his vibrato, full but natural, and by the deep sound at the top of his low string.

    • Bachtrack
    • 26 October 2022

• Sibelius, San Francisco Symphony

  Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  • He managed brilliant articulation of rapid-fire figures, and marvelous moments of delicacy, both in lyrical opening phrases and in the expressive slow movement.

    • Seen and Heard International
    • 27 January 2020

• Cleveland Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša

  Severance Hall, Cleveland

  Nov 2019 - Nov 2019

  • Coming from Khachatryan, the music burrowed under the skin with everything from raw fury to open paranoia. It’s a wonder people Thursday didn’t spring to their feet before he’d even finished. But the real standouts were the slow movements, the Nocturne and Passacaglia. For all the heat elsewhere, these movements remained deeply, eerily frozen. Playing near-static phrases at the very edge of audibility, Khachatryan managed nonetheless to infuse the music with molten passion, piercing the icy surface he’d created with radiant single tones and marvellously lyrical chords.

    • The Plain Dealer
    • 08 November 2019