Mikayel Hakhnazaryan

Cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan is a longtime member of the Kuss Quartet. He has also performed and recorded as a soloist, and he is a prominent orchestral cellist. From 2001 to 2003, Hakhnazaryan was a member of the Zurich String Trio. He joined the Basel String Quartet in 2004 and remained with that group until 2008, when he joined the Kuss Quartet in Berlin, Germany. In 2011, he released a recording of string quartets with that group. Hakhnazaryan joined pianist Sofia Melikyan and violinist David Haroutunian on a 2021 recording of Brahms' Piano Trios Nos. 2 and 3. Two years later, he released the recital Inner World with pianist Lia Hakhnazaryan.