Haik Kazazyan

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), as well as under Ilya Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London (2006–2008). 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