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• Tchaikovsky, San Francisco Symphony

  Davies Symphony Hall, USA

  Oct 2025

  • Khachatryan’s performance was neither cool nor dispassionately calculated. Whether he was firing off a volley of double-stops, making every note count in the concerto’s furious passagework or lofting harmonics in a tender, almost ethereal way, the soloist was in sensitive control of the work’s shifting terrain.

    • San Francisco Classical Voice
    • 26 October 2025

• The Opening of The 17th Yerevan International Festival of Classical Music

  Yerevan, Armenia

  Sep 2025

  • In his performance, one is delighted with the mystery, grandeur, and enormous power of impact, which, especially in Sibelius's concerto, are perceived almost as magic. It is rare to find a musician so sensitive and attentive to the beating of inner life. Everything sounds like a continuous internal monologue-confession. Craftsmanship is brought to the highest degree of perfection, to that lightness when breathtaking passages seem natural, like breathing. It feels as if he himself is creating this unique music now in front of the audience. And what is striking? Amazing freedom on stage, naturalness. An amazing concentration that always makes you believe that there is no other life than the one he lives, there is no hall, no audience, but only the world that surrounds him.

    • Golos Armenii
    • 26 September 2025

• World premiere for the Sergey Khachatryan / Alexandre Kantorow duo, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

  Auditorium Rainier III

  Apr 2024

  • The elegance, taste, poignancy and energy of their playing in Brahms Sonata No. 1 transcends time and technology. Their collaborative performance of this sonata is the definition of true musicianship. Khachatryan is the ideal performer: he feels this music and touches our hearts. It rises and falls through the many peaks. It is by turns harsh, frenetic, dramatic and violent then romantic and lyrical.

    • Crescendo Magazine
    • 01 May 2024

• 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.

    • 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