Haïk Davtian, former student of Edouard Tatevossian, is part of the tradition of Russian violinists. After winning first prize in violin and chamber music at the Armenian National Conservatory in 1985, he went on to study in Moscow with Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny. He won numerous competitions in Russia.

After training as a conductor from 1986 to 1990, he earned a first prize in conducting from the Yerevan State Conservatory and began his career as a conductor with the Armenian National Opera and National Radio orchestras between 1987 and 1991. After settling in France in 1991, Haïk Davtian performed as a solo violinist and chamber musician, forming a duo with pianist Arthur Aharonian, and then, in 1999, the string quintet with double bass, Khroma, in which he served as first violin and which would become the Naïri Quintet in 2007. In 1996, he and his violin-piano duo unanimously won the Grand Prix at the Pierre Lantier International Competition in Paris. He went on to give more than 300 concerts in France and abroad (Canada, Italy, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Israel, Armenia...) and collaborated regularly with the Radio Orchestras, the Paris Opera Orchestra, and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra...

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A holder of the Certificate of Qualification as a violin teacher, he taught at the Strasbourg Regional Conservatory from 2004 to 2013, where he was also entrusted with conducting the symphony orchestra. In 2016, Haïk Davtian served as an assistant professor at the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance. Currently a violin professor and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at the Cergy-Pontoise Regional Conservatory, he continues his international career as a violinist. Regularly invited to perform with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra as both a solo violinist and conductor, he brings little-known works of French music to the public’s attention. As both a violinist and conductor, it is from this dual role that he draws the originality and style of his approach. Building a bridge between the two ends of Europe, he carries the soul of Caucasian music through the Naïri Ensemble and introduces audiences in Armenia to lesser-known works of French music.

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