Khachik Babayan

Khachik Babayan is an Iranian-Armenian violin player. He was a student of Manoug Parikian.

Khachik Babayan was born in 1956 in Tabriz, Iran. He began to play the violin when he was four. At the age of seven, he began violin studies with his first violin teacher, Zaven Yedigarian. In 1972, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music.

In 1974, Babayan was awarded first place in the Iranian Violinists Competition and was offered a scholarship to study music in England. In 1975, when he began his musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Manoug Parikian. He graduated in violin performing with honors, and became an associate of The Royal College of Music in 1979. While living in England, he resided at 54 Sterndale Road, London, W 14.

Returning to Iran in 1980, Babayan continued his career as soloist and concertmaster of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra as well as the National Radio-Television Orchestra of Iran. In 1990, he participated in the eighth "Concorso Internazionale di Violino Premio Rodolfo Lipizer" international violin competition in Gorizia, Italy.

In the recent years, Babayan has often appeared as a soloist with Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia under the baton of Loris Tjeknavorian. He has also collaborated with the Persian Chamber Orchestra.

On November 21, 2009, Babayan, accompanied by Serouj Kradjian, performed to a sold-out audience in his Canada Tribute concert at the Glenn Gould Studio. January 30, 2011, marks Babayan’s début concert in the US at the First Baptist Church of Glendale in California.