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Born in Yerevan. She studied at the P. Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan. In 1956 she graduated from the P. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, in the class of Mstislav Rostropovich. From 1956 she worked at the Armenian State Philharmonic as a soloist. From 1957 she taught at the P. Tchaikovsky ten-year music school in Yerevan, and from 1960 at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (professor from 1981). In 1973 she was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Armenia. She was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1963 and of People's Artist in 1980. In 2012 she was awarded the RA medal "For Services to the Homeland" (1st degree). She died in Yerevan.