YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The solo concerts of 22-year-old violinist Sergei Khachatrian will be held in Berlin on December 13-15. Works of Sergei Prokofiev will be performed conducted by Yuri Temirkanov and to the accompaniment of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Irina Khachatrian, the mother of the violinist, the 2008 concert program of Sergei Khachatrian has already been made. The violinist will have concerts with world-famous orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as will take part in the authoritative "Mikkeli" classic music festival in summer. Sergei Khachatrian will perform certain works by Sibelius and Beethoven conducted by conductor Valeri Gergiev. The joint disk of the violinist and his sister Lusine Khachatraian, a young pianist, will be released next year. It will be released by the French "Naive" company. Sergei Khachatrian was born in Yerevan, he has been living in Germany since 1993. The violinist has had concerts in numerous countries. For the first time he had a concert with the English Chamber Orchestra, after which he has cooperated with the Bournemouth Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. The violinist has had concerts with Gulbenkian Orchestra of Portugal, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of France, the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev, the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anne-Sophie Mutter, to name but a few. In 2000 Sergei Khachatrian was decorated with the first prize in the Louis Spor and Yan Sibelius international competitions of violinists, thus becoming the youngest winner in the history of those competitions. And in 2005 receiving the first prize of the Queen Elizabeth international competition, Sergei Khachatrian gained the right to use the Stradivarius "Haggins" violin for four years.

---