Sergey Smbatyan
Sergey Smbatyan is an Armenian conductor and violinist.Biography
Smbatyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. His grandmother taught him to play the violin when he was four, and he later took lessons from Bagrat Vardanyan and Zakhar Bron. He has participated in various national and international competitions in Italy, Japan, and Romania, where he has won numerous awards. He has also performed at both the Moscow and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras as a soloist. In 2009 he graduated from both the Moscow Conservatory and the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. In 2005, he founded the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, of which he is the Artistic Director and Principal Director since. In 2009, he founded the UNICEF Children Orchestra and the Armenian Composing Arts Festival. In both of these capacities he gave performances in orphanages and nursing homes in Armenia and other parts of Europe. In 2009, he also obtained a Ph.D. in fine arts from the Institute of Arts, a division of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.
In the spring of 2010, he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, which was attended by Prince Charles and hosted at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. The following year, he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra along with Valery Gergiev, Colin Davis and Riccardo Muti. From 2012 to 2013 he conducted both the Dresden Philharmonic at the Dresden Frauenkirche and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London.
In 2019, he became the principal conductor of Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.
His father is Armenian diplomat Armen Smbatian.
As of 2019, he resides in Yerevan. He was a conductor of the WCIT Orchestra performing the songs that composed by AI cooperated with more that 100 symphony musicians from the 15 countries in Yerevan, Armenia at WCIT, World Congress on Information Technology event.
