Marianna Harutyunyan

She was born in Tbilisi. She was the daughter of the opera singer Haykanush Danielyan and the wife of the trumpeter Mikayel Khachatryan. She received her musical education in her native city. During the years of the Great Patriotic War Marianna Harutyunyan moved to Yerevan and entered the conservatory. She graduated from the piano department of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1947 and from the solo singing department in 1952. She performed both as a pianist and as a singer. From 1948 she worked at the Yerevan Conservatory as an accompanist, and in 1952–59 as a soloist at the A. Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan. From 1963 she taught chamber singing at the conservatory, and from 1968 solo singing (professor from 1985). She toured the USA, Canada, Argentina, France, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Iraq and other countries. In 1967 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Armenia. She died in Yerevan.