Leninakan

Sergey Galstyan was born in Leninakan. In 1942 he went to army and participated in Great Patriotic War. In 1949 he graduated from Moscow State Conservatory under the tuition of Nikolay Speransky. From 1949 to 1974 Galstyan was a soloist at the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Theater. He was the Director of the Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra, State Dance Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and Capella of Armenia. He was the Vice-rector of Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. In 1967 he was awarded with People's Artist of the Armenian SSR. Sergey Galstyan died in Yerevan.