Slavonian Dance

Born in Tiflis. In 1947 he graduated from the Faculty of Military Conductors of the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1952 from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, in the class of Konstantin Saradzhev. In 1947-50, 1955-57 and from 1984 he taught at the Yerevan Conservatory (professor from 1989), in 1956-77 at the R. Melikyan Music College in Yerevan, and from 1980 at the Khachatur Abovyan Pedagogical Institute in Yerevan. From 1958 he was a conductor of the A. Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan, and in 1988-91 also its director and artistic director. In 1977 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Armenia. He died in Yerevan.