Haik Kazazyan was born in Yerevan in 1982. In 1989 he entered the Yerevan Sayat-Nova School of Music (class of Levon Zoryan). Moved to Moscow in 1996. Studied under Eduard Grach at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music (1996–2000) and the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (2000–2006; subsequently, in 2009, he completed a postgraduate course there), as well as under Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London (2006–2008). Has taken part in masterclasses given by Ida Haendel, Shlomo Mintz, Boris Kuschnir and Pamela Frank.
Prize-winner at the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition (Poznań, 2001; 3rd prize and special prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2002; 4th prize and three special prizes) and the International Long–Thibaud Competition (Paris, 2005; 3rd prize and Audience Award). In 2004 he received the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Sion (Switzerland), while in 2007 he took the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the International Yun Isang Violin Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea). In 2011 the musician won the George Enescu International Violin Competition in Bucharest, while in 2015 he received 3rd prize and the Bronze Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg).
Appeared at such acclaimed venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Small and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, the State Kremlin Palace and the Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia. Took part in the Sion Festival and the Verbier Festival as well as the festivals Stars on Baikal, Crescendo, Arts Square and Musical Kremlin.
Appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Irish National Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra), the Orchestre National de France and the Münchener Kammerorchester.
Has collaborated with such musicians as Valery Gergiev, Teodor Currentzis, Yuri Simonov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Lazarev, Andrew Litton, Konstantin Orbelian, Alexander Polyanichko, Alan Buribayev, Jonathan Darlington, Pavel Kogan, Vladimir Ziva, Denis Matsuev, Eliso Virsaladze, Frederick Kempf, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Kobrin, Ekaterina Mechetina, Vadym Kholodenko, Natalia Gutman, Alexander Kniazev, Alexander Rudin, Boris Andrianov and Alexander Buzlov.
Soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Society since 2002.
Since 2008 the artist has taught at the Moscow Conservatory, working at the Department of Solo Violin Performance headed by Professor Eduard Grach.
In 2010 he released with pianist Andrey Shibko the album Opera Fantasies (Delos), while in 2017 there came an album with violin sonatas by Grieg, recorded with pianist Philipp Kopachevsky.
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