Saténik Khourdoian

Saténik Khourdoïan has been heard in France and abroad on prestigious stages such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Jerusalem Music Center, the Pleyel hall, the Cortot hall, the Gaveau hall, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Theâtre du Châtelet, Olivier Messiaen hall at Radio France, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra de Marseille, Yerevan State Opera, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Festival de la Grange de Meslay, Festival de Nohant, Le Violon sur le sable, Festival de Beaulieu sur Mer, Puccini hall in Milan… She has appeared as soloist with the Nordwestdeutsche Phliharmonie, conducted by Frank Beermann, the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, conducted by Alain Altinoglu and Hartmut Haenchen, the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, conducted by Fayçal Karoui, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Juraj Valcuha, at the ‘Antibes Génération Virtuoses’ Festival with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Cannes, conducted by Philippe Bender, the Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Opéra de Marseille, conducted by Friederich Pleyer, and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ruben Asatryan…

After training with Jean Ter-Merguerian at the Marseille Conservatoire, she entered the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Jean-Jacques Kantorow. In November 2008, this young violinist, nominated ‘Révélation Classique de l’Adami 2009’, won the Fourth Prize in the Long Thibaud Competition and three special prizes (Audience Prize, SACEM Prize and Gaby Pasquier Prize). In February 2008, she was awarded Second Prize at the YCA in New York, and was also the winner of the Aram Khtachatourian Competition in Yerevan in 2006.

Saténik Khourdoïan plays a violin by G.B. Gadagnini, generously loaned by the Zilber Foundation.

This young artist also has a career as a solo violinist, and since 2013 has been the Konzertmeisterin of the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Saténik Khourdoian taught at the CRR in Reims from 2006 to 2011.

She is regularly invited to give master classes in France and abroad.