Hayk Melikyan

Hayk is a laureate of leading international piano competitions, including the Concours d’Orléans (France), Ibla Grand Prize (Italy), Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music (USA), and Premio Valentino Bucchi (Italy). He has been awarded the Komitas Medal by the Armenian Musical Assembly (2008), the Golden Medal of the Moscow Composers Union (2012) for his contribution to world contemporary music, and in 2013, was named Honorary Artist of Armenia. BBC Music Magazine hailed him as “a musical hero” for his promotion of contemporary music.

As a soloist, Hayk Melikyan regularly performs with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Montevideo Philharmonic, under the baton of renowned conductors including Valery Gergiev, Gianluca Marcianò, Diego Martin-Etxebarria, Hovhannes Tchekidjian, Eduard Topchjan, Sergey Smbatyan, and many others. He has collaborated with distinguished musicians, including cellists Edgar Moreau and Francesco Dillon, and violinists Kristóf Baráti, Carolin Widmann, and Hugo Ticciati, as well as prominent composers like György Kurtág, Pēteris Vasks, Tigran Mansurian, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Melikyan is the first performer of numerous works by composers of our time, while dozens of pieces have been specially written for him. He regularly performs and gives piano masterclasses at renowned festivals including, Festival de Valmagne (France), Festival de Musique en Côte de Nacre (France), O/MODƏRNT (Sweden), Warsaw Royal Arcades of Art Festival, San Leo (Italy), Penderecki Contemporary Classics’ Festival (Armenia), Pharos Contemporary Music Festival (Cyprus), Lviv Contrasts Contemporary Music Festival (Ukraine), Sofia ppIANISSIMO (Bulgaria), Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival (Italy).