Martin Yeritsyan

Born in Yerevan. He studied at the A. Spendiaryan Music School in Yerevan, in the class of Gohar Hakobyan, and then at the music college. He also graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and then completed postgraduate studies. After graduating he joined the quartet of the Armenian Philharmonic as second violin. As a member of the quartet, in 1969 he took part in the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels. He has toured France, Italy, Russia and other countries. He teaches at the quartet department of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (professor). He has made more than 400 violins, about 150 violas and 37 cellos, as well as other instruments. In 1985 he went to Czechoslovakia, where he worked with the renowned violin maker Vladimír Pilař in his workshop. He has received numerous prizes and diplomas, including, in 1980, a prize at the Stradivarius International Competition in Italy for one of his cellos.