Sergei Babayan appears as soloist with leading orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Tugan Sokhiev, Neeme Jarvi, Rafael Payare, and David Robertson.
14 Facts About Sergei Babayan
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Sergei Babayan served as artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1992 to 2024 and currently teaches at both The Juilliard School and Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts.
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Sergei Babayan later studied under Lev Naumov, Vera Gornostayeva and Mikhail Pletnev at the Moscow Conservatory.
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Sergei Babayan is particularly recognized for his prominent interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Sergei Babayan frequently appears as a soloist with such orchestras as Gewandhausorchester, Rotterdam Philharmonic, The National Orchestra of Belgium, The Cleveland Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Czech State Philharmonic.
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Sergei Babayan has performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Konzerthaus Berlin and Munich's Prinzregententheater, appeared at the Salzburger Festspiele, Verbier Festival and Festival de La Roque-d'Antheron festivals.
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Sergei Babayan has collaborated with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Neeme Jarvi, David Robertson, Rafael Payare, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Nikolaj Znaider and Tugan Sokhiev.
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Sergei Babayan has recorded with Deutsche Grammophon, the Connoisseur Society label, Discover Records and Pro Piano Records.
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Sergei Babayan served as artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1992 to 2024.
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Sergei Babayan's students have included the pianists Ching-Yun Hu, Second Prize winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein Competition; Stanislav Khristenko, winner of Cleveland International Piano Competition and fourth prize winner at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition, and Daniil Trifonov, Third Prize winner of 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, First Prize winner of the 2011 Arthur Rubinstein Competition, and First Prize winner of the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition.
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Since 2013 Sergei Babayan is a member of the faculty at The Juilliard School, and in 2023 joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts; he currently serves as Meadows' Joel Estes Tate Endowed Chair in Piano and artist-in-residence.
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In 2015, Sergei Babayan performed two Prokofiev concertos at BBC Proms with Valery Gergiev and London Symphony Orchestra.
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In November 2019 Sergei Babayan was Curating Artist at Konzerthaus Dortmund, where he presented a festival of performances with close musical friends, including Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov, Mischa Maisky, Sergey Khachatryan, and Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.
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In July 2018, Sergei Babayan signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon.