Narek Hekekyan

• Student at the Zurich University of the Arts • Studied at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory as a Cello Student, Bachelor of Music, • Graduated from Sayat-Nova School of Music in Yerevan Awards: • Winner of the Audience Award of the Primavera “Recording & Releases for Emerging Artists Program 2025” • International Shubert Competition, 2025, 1st Prize, Austria • Europian Virtuoso Music Awards, 2025, Gold Prize, Germany • World’s Best Musicians Competition, 2023, 1st Prize, Outstanding Laureate, Poland • String Competition Online, 2023, 1st Prize, Poland • Birmingham International Music Competition, 2023, 2nd Prize, United Kingdom • London Classical Music Competition, 2022, 2nd Prize, United Kingdom • Tokyo International Music Competition, Japan, 2022, 1st Prize, Japan • Amadeus International Music Competition, 2022, 2nd Prize, Austria • The International BTHVN Wien Music Competition, 2022, 1st Prize, Austria • Medici International Music Competition 2021, 1st Prize, Belgium • International Music Competition Silk Way named after S.Prokofiev, 2021, Grand Prix, Russia • AGBU Discovers Talents String Instruments Competition, 2021, 1st Prize, Armenia • The North International Music Competition, 2020, 2nd Prize, Sweden • Otar Taktakishvili International Competition, 2018, 2nd Prize, Georgia • Art Music International Music Competition, 2018, 1st Prize, Armenia • Resurrection International Music Competition, 2016, 2018, 1st Prize, Armenia

Accolades:

• Accepted by the Zurich University of the Arts, May 2024 • Studying in Norway with the “Erasmus +” program at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, January to June 2024 • Awarded a full scholarship to study at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, 2022 • Participated in the “Collegium Musicum” 65th International Summer Academy, Pommersfelden, Germany, 2022 • Graduated from Sayat-Nova School of Music with honors and a medal from the piano and cello departments, 2019 • Performed at the Jubilee concert of the International Fond Artis Futura at the St. Petersburg Concert Hall of the Academic Capella with the St. Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Pavel Petrenko, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2021 • Winner of the Music for Future Foundation online competition, Armenia, 2021 • Cello concertmaster of the Yerevan Youth Orchestra, 2019 • Participant in the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra at the Tsinandali Festival, Georgia, 2019 • Member of the Little Singers of Armenia choir,