Among the highlights of Sergey Khachatryan's past seasons are performances with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra (Emmanuel Tjeknavorian), the Korean National Symphony Orchestra (Oksana Lyniv), the Ulster Orchestra (Daniele Rustioni), the Orchestre National de Belgique (Michael Schønwandt), the Queensland Symphony (Otto Tausk), the Auckland Philharmonia (Chloé van Soeterstède), the Bochumer Symphoniker (Kahchun Wong) and two major tours: an extensive tour of Spain with the Basque National Orchestra (Euskadiko Orchestra) under the direction of Stanislav Kochanovsky and a North American tour with the Armenian National Philharmonic - to venues including Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal and Carnegie Hall in New York. Sergey's residency at the Orquesta de Valencia also included several concerts under the direction of Alexander Liebreich, including a chamber music project, as well as Sergey's residency at the BOZAR in Brussels, which included two recitals and a concert with the Orchestre National de Belgique and Hugo Wolff. He has been re-invited by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Rotterdam and Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestras and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others. Sergey also toured the USA and Europe with Alisa Weilierstein and Inon Barnatan with the programme Verklärte Nächte (Transfigured Nights), which featured the music of Beethoven, Schönberg and Shostakovich. Other recent projects include a tour of Japan with the Nippon Foundation. In 2014/15, Sergey Khachatryan performed Beethoven's Violin Concerto at the Lucerne Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel and was honoured with the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award.
Born in Yerevan (Armenia), Sergey Khachatryan won first prize at the VIII. International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, making him the youngest winner in the history of the competition. In 2005, he was awarded first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.