Tigran Ter-Stepanyan

Born in Yerevan. He received his initial musical education in the violin class and then graduated from the guitar department of the Romanos Melikyan Music College. At the end of the 1980s he moved to Brussels, where he graduated from the guitar department of the Royal Conservatory. As a guitarist he collaborated with a number of Belgian bands. In 2004, together with the duduk player Vardan Hovhannisyan, he founded the Armenian-Belgian group "Araks", also bringing in Belgian musicians. In 2004, 2009 and 2024 the group recorded three CDs featuring Armenian melodies arranged by T. Ter-Stepanyan. The CDs have enjoyed great success among music lovers, and the Araks arrangements are used in the music for a wide variety of films, programmes and events all over the world. Araks has given numerous concerts on various stages in Armenia and Europe. From the 1980s onward Tigran actively collaborated with Ruben Hakhverdyan as an accompanying guitarist, took part in the recording of his albums and performed at his concerts on many stages around the world. He has also accompanied many other performers, in Armenia and abroad. Since 2012 he has been carrying out joint music projects with the songwriter and performer Lilit Bleyan, recording a number of CDs as guitarist and arranger and giving concerts.