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Belgian-Armenian pianist Ashot Khachatourian will perform with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra on February 4 at 19:00 at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. As the Orchestra reported in a release, before the main concert, Khachatourian along with his friends will perform a charity concert on February 2  proceeds of which will be used to buy a grand piano for Stepanakert musical school. The February 4 concert programme features Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 and Symphony No.2. 

Ahot Khachatourian is considered as one of the most inspiring artists of his generation. He started playing the piano at the age of five with Valentina Melikyan and Elena Galustova at the Charles Aznavour Music School in his home country. He then continued his studies with Gerard Wyss in Basel, Switzerland,  Eliso Virssaladze in Fiesole, Italy, and Maria João Pires at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels. He is a member of the Partitura Movement created by Maria João Pires.

Ashot Khachatourian has particularly excelled in his interpretations of Rachmaninov’s 2nd and 3rd concertos. He won the 1st Prize of the Rachmaninov Piano Competition in 2006 and the 1st Prize of the Martha Argerich Piano Competition in 2007. He is also a Prize winner of the Top of the World Piano Competition in 2011 and Concours d’Epinal in 2013.

The young virtuoso has been invited to perform in BBC Radio London St Luke’sand with many important orchestras such as the London Chamber Orchestra, the Norway Radio Orchestra, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Wallonie Royal Chamber Orchestra, The Olympique Orchestra, and to collaborate with masters such as Jan Caeyers, Rodolfo Fisher, Augustin Dumay, Daniele Gatti, Thomas Søndergård, Christopher Warren-Green and others.