Haik Kazazyan was born in Yerevan, in 1982. In 1989 has entered the Sayat-Nova Music school.

In 1994-1995 won several republic competitions, also won ‘Grand-Prix’ at ‘Amadeus-95’ competition and after that has been invited to Belgium and France for recitals.

In 1996 has moved to Moscow and has entered  a class of professor E. Gratch in music school named after Gnessin.

In 1997 has taken part in the international competition of violinists in Germany(in the castle ‘Kloster Shontal’) and has received II prize and special prize for masterly performance.

In 1999 at the 2-nd international competition named after A.Yampolsky has won II prize.

In 2000 at the All-Russia competition ‘New names’ with a piano trio has received ‘Grand Prix’.

In the same year entered the Moscow Conservatory, class of  professor E. D. Gratch.

In 2001 at the XII international H.Wieniawski competition in Poland has received III premium and special prize for the best performance of polonaise by Wieniawski.

In 2002 he became the laureate of XII international P.I.Tchaikovsky competition, IV prize and 3 special prizes. A prizes – from TV channel ‘Culture’, from the Moscow State Conservatory, from foundation ‘New Names’.

In 2004 at the International violin competition in Sion-Valais(Switzerland) Haik received first prize  and prize of ‘Children jury’ and also public prize.

Haik often plays in many festivals like ‘Festival de musique’ of  Sh. Mintz,(Switzerland) ‘Arts square’ of Yu. Temirkanov (S.-Petersburg), ‘Moscow Kremlin’ ,Primavera Classica’(Moscow) and many others.

Has performed in ‘Carnegie hall’(Stern Auditorium) in New-York, in Great, Main and Rakhmaninov halls of Moscow conservatory, in Tchaikovsky hall(Moscow), ‘Victoria hall’ in Geneve, ‘Barbican hall’ in London, ‘Usher hall’ in Edinburgh, etc.

Martin Panteleev, born into a family of musicians, received his first violin lessons at the age of four. He began his musical education at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, where he studied until 1995. He then continued his studies at the Sofia State Academy of Music in the violin class of Professor Iosif Radionoff. At the same time, he studied conducting and composition with Professor Vassil Kasandzhiev. In 1999, Martin Panteleev became Principal Guest Conductor and soloist of the Philharmonic of Nations, founded by Leonard Bernstein and Justus Frantz. With this orchestra, he performed in over 1,000 concerts in Europe, Asia, and the USA until 2003. After his debut with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004, he became a permanent guest conductor and was the orchestra's chief conductor from 2011 to 2017.

Throughout his career, Martin Panteleev has worked with more than 30 international orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian National Opera, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Nova Scotia, the Orquesta Philharmonica de Jalisco in Mexico, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Buenos Aires and others. He has conducted in prestigious concert halls such as the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and has been a guest at well-known festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the MDR Musiksommer and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In addition to his international conducting activities, Panteleev was Principal Guest Conductor of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra from 2012 to 2019. In 2008 he led a North American tour with the Sofia Festival Orchestra, and in 2011 he became the first conductor to conduct an African orchestra on a US tour.