Cellist Hayk Sukiasyan is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal. Since 2025, he has served as Principal Cellist of the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras including the Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre National de Cannes, Kammerakademie Halle, Encuentro de Música y Academia Santander festival Orchestra, the Freixenet Orchestra and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Sir András Schiff, Gabriel Venzago, Peter Csaba, Kaspar Zehnder, Josep Caballé Domenech, and Pablo Heras-Casado. In June 2023, he gave the premiere performance of Aram Khachaturian’s Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra with the Sinfonieorchester Basel under Gabriel Venzago.

His repertoire spans from Baroque and Classical works to contemporary music. He has been closely involved in modern repertoire, including the German premiere of Paul Patterson’s Cello Concerto op. 90 and intensive collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann on Pression. In 2025, he gave the U.S. premieres of Julian Anderson’s Maisema (Landscapes) for solo cello and Helena Tulve’s “To night travelers, the light...” for cello and piano at the Yellow Barn Festival (USA).

As a chamber musician, he has shared the stage with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Zakhar Bron, Diemut Poppen, Ivan Monighetti, Jonathan Brown, Natalia Prishepenko, Felix Renggli, Massimo Mercelli and many others. He has appeared at international festivals including the Osterfestival Bayreuth, Encuentro de Música y Academia Santander, Yellow Barn Festival, Classic d’Antibes, Cello Akademie Rutesheim, the Pablo Casals Festival in El Vendrell, and other major European concert series.

He is currently completing his Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in the class of Johannes Moser. Previous studies were with Ivan Monighetti, Günter Pichler, Sol Gabetta, Danjulo Ishizaka, Nicolas Altstaedt and Ramón Jaffé at leading European institutions including the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Musikakademie Basel and the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin.

He performs on a 1687 Cremonese cello by Francesco Ruggieri, on a private loan.