DAVID HAROUTUNIAN

A passionate chamber musician, Haroutunian has collaborated with artists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Itamar Golan, Renaud Capuçon and Jean-Jacques Kantorow among others. He also explores traditional music with the groups Toumanian Mek and Tangomotán. He has directed several festivals, including Les Variations Musicales de Saint-Estèphe, Festival de Bormes-les-Mimosas, and Musique(s) en Émeraude in Saint-Malo.

David Haroutunian’s recordings for labels such as Alpha, Fuga Libera, NoMadMusic, Rubicon, and Saphir have been acclaimed by international critics. Hisdiscography includes an album of Armenian melodies with mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik (Alpha Classics, 2023) and a recording of Aram Khachaturian’s complete violin works (Fuga Libera, 2025).

David Haroutunian began his musical studies in Yerevan, Armenia, with his father, a disciple of Leonid Kogan. At 16, he moved to France to study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he obtained a first-class degree before joining Jean-Jacques Kantorow’s advanced postgraduate class. His meeting with Boris Belkin played a decisive role in his artistic development, placing him among the heirs of the Russian violin school that had evolved in the West. Nowadays, Haroutunian is a dedicated educator himself – a professor at the City Conservatory of Paris of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés since 2023, and he has given numerous masterclasses abroad.

David Haroutunian plays a violin by Lorenzo Carcassi.