Sergei Babayan

Sergei Babayan's career commenced in the USA, Japan and UK, shortly after winning several consecutive first prizes in prestigious international competitions such as The Cleveland, Hamamatsu and Scottish International Piano Competitions.

He went on to perform with major orchestras throughout the world including the Orchestra of Mariinsky Theatre, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Nationale de Lille, New World Symphony, London Symphony orchestra and others.

Ever since, Sergei's concerto repertoire is constantly growing – at this point he has performed 54 different concertos.

He has made several highly praised recordings for EMC, Connoisseur Society and Pro Piano labels, garnered high acclaims including a “critic's choice” in the New York Times praising Babayan's “extraordinary technique and ability to play densely harmonized works with illuminating transparency and a daunting measure of control”. American Record Guide joins in these accolades praising his “phenomenal level of color and imagination”.

One of the leading piano teachers in the world. Teacher of two winners of former Rubinstein competitions: Daniil Trifonov and Ching Yun Hu.

Jury Members

Marcello Abbado

Guido Agosti

Martha Argerich

Sulamita Aronovsky

Zvi Avni

Arthur Balsman

Joseph Banowetz

Hui-Qiao Bao

Josef Bardanashvili

Enrique Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Dimitri Bashkirov

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Boris Berman

Lazar Berman

Michel Beroff

Andrea Bonatta

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Michael Bugoslavsky

Hung-Kuan Chen

Pierre Colombo

Peter Cossé

Halina Czerny-Stefanska

Michel Dalberto

Jose de Sequeira Costa

Noel do Carmo Flores

Peter Donohoe

François-René Duchâble

Thomas Duis

Carsten Durer

Akiko Ebi

Jan Ekier

Dean Elder

Taiseer Elias

Christopher Elton

Martin Engstroem

Jacques Fevrier

Janina Fialkowska

Marian Filar

Rudolf Firkusny

Leon Fleischer

Ian Fountain

Claude Frank

Peter Frankl

Orazio Frugoni

Henri Gagnebin

Valentin Gheorghiu

Pavel Gililov

Bernd Goetzke

Hans Graf

Gary Graffman

Zhou Guangren

Andre Hajdu

Ian Hobson

Akiko Iguchi

Eugen Indjic

Eugene Istomin

Andrzej Jasinski

Karl Heinz Kaemmerling

Joachim Kaiser

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Mindru Katz

Daejin Kim

Irving Kolodin

Alexander Korsantia

Vladimir Krajnev

Emanuel Krasovsky

Tomer Lev

Robert Levin

John Lill

Eugene List

Jerome Lowenthal

Nikita Magaloff

André-François Marescotti

Victor Merzhanov

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Li Ming-Qiang

Gyorgy Nador

Hiroko Nakamura

Émile Naoumoff

Lev Naumov

Marlos Nobre

John O’Conor

Ronan O’Hora

Noriko Ogawa

Gerhard Oppitz

Cecile Ousset

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Piotr Paleczny

Sergio Perticaroli

Pierre Petit

Nikolai Petrov

Ewa Poblocka

Robert Ponsonby

Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron

Awadagin Pratt

Menahem PRESSLER

Matti Raekallio

Yoni Rechter

Mendi Rodan

Arthur Rubinstein

Pnina Salzman

György Sándor

Hans Ulrich Schmid

Harold Schonberg

Uri Segal

Craig Sheppard

Soo-Jung Shin

Michal Smoira-Cohn

Dang Thai Son

Takahiro Sonoda

Joaquin Soriano

Hugo Steurer

Gordon Stewart

Josef Tal

Alexander Tamir

Alexander Tansman

Kiri Janette Te Kanawa

Maria Tipo

Arie VARDI, Chair

Tamás Vásáry

Ilona Vincze-Kraus

Eliso Virsaladze

Lev Vlasenko

Mikhail Voskressensky

Xiaohan Wang

Fanny Waterman

Dieter Weber

Alexis Weissenberg

Ramzi Yassa

Dina Yoffe

Asaf Zohar

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