Sergei Babayan

Sergei Babayan has collaborated with such conductors as Sir Antonio Pappano, David Robertson, Neeme Järvi, Rafael Payare, Thomas Dausgaard, Tugan Sokhiev, and Dima Slobodeniouk. In recent seasons, Mr. Babayan’s schedule included concert performances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Sergei Babayan regularly performs at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Maison de la Radio in Paris, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Théâtre des Champs-Elyseés, at Salzburg Festival and the Zurich Tonhalle. Mr. Babayan performs with the world’s foremost orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. At Konzerthaus Dortmund, Sergei Babayan was a Curating Artist.
Sergei Babayan is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist. His latest release ‘Rachmaninoff’ (DG 2020) received numerous awards including BBC Recording of the Month and CHOC Classica. His previous DG release of his own transcriptions for two pianos of works by Sergei Prokofiev, with Martha Argerich as his partner, was released in 2018 (’Prokofiev for Two’).
Born in Armenia, Sergei Babayan began his studies there with Georgy Saradjev and continued at the Moscow Conservatory with Mikhail Pletnev, Vera Gornostayeva and Lev Naumov. Following his first trip outside of the USSR in 1989, he won consecutive first prizes in several major competitions including the Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Hamamatsu Piano Competition, and the Scottish International Piano Competition.