The violinist Haik Kazazyan is the winner and a prizewinner of numerous international music competitions, including the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2002, 2015), the Wieniawski Competition (2001) and the Long-Thibaud Competition (2005). Kazazyan has performed with orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Orchestre national de France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic, under the batons of Valery Gergiev, Andrew Litton, Teodor Currentzis, Alexander Lazarev, Constantine Orbelian and Yuri Simonov, to name a few. His chamber music partners include Eliso Virsaladze, Natalia Gutman, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Rudin, Denis Matsuev and Freddy Kempf.

He has performed in many great halls around the world, including Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) in New York, the Barbican Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, and the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.

Kazazyan has recorded two albums for Delos, Opera Fantasies (2010) and the Grieg Violin Sonatas (2017, with Philipp Kopachevsky). Kazazyan was born in Yerevan (Armenia), graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 2006 and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 2006 to 2008. He is a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, and teaches violin at Moscow Conservatory.