Hrachuhí Bassénz was born to a musical family in Yerevan, Armenia. After completing her violin studies, she graduated with distinction from singing at the State Komitas Conservatory of her hometown with Professor Gayane Geghamyan. Since 2006 Germany has been the center of her life and artistic creation. Her debut as Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore was the start of her career. ...

Born in Slovakia, she began her musical education, piano and singing, at the age of six. She graduated from the Vocal and Acting class at the Academy of Music F. Nowowiejskiego in Bydgoszcz (Poland) where she was a member of the academic staff between 2009-2014 and earned a PhD degree. ...

Armenian soprano Narine Yeghian, born in Yerevan, first studied violin. At the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan she completed her vocal study with Prof. Nelly Pirumova. ...

Armenian soprano Lussine Levoni was born in Yerevan. She received her postgraduate diploma, master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from the Yerevan State Conservatory, first as a concert pianist and then as an opera singer. ...

The current engagements of the Armenian mezzo-soprano Stella Grigorian include Amneris in an Aida production at Estonian National Theater Tallinn, concerts with Natalie Dessay in South America and at the Beaufort Festival, new concert program presented in a recital at MuTh, the concert hall of the Vienna Boys Choir, and a new crossover projects “Tango” with the legendary Argentinian pianist and composer Gustavo Beytelman. ...

Jana Kurucová was born in Slovakia and started her music education in church music, composition, organ, orchestra conducting and singing at the Conservatory J. L. Bellu in Banská Bystrica. In 2002 she received a grant for the University for Music and Drama in Graz and made her operatic debut in The magic Flute (‘Second Lady’) and La Finta Giardiniera (‘Ramiro’). ...

After making his European stage debut as Fenton in the new production of Falstaff at the Cologne Opera in October of 2016, Liparit Avetisyan was invited to make several other important debuts in the 2016/17 season: Rodolfo in La Boheme with the Frankfurt Opera, Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera Australia in Sydney, and Alfredo at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. ...

Hovhannes Ayvazyan has studied at the State Conservatoire in Jerewan, debuted on opera stage in 2010 in the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan. Since 2010 has performed frequently with the Opera Belcanto of South Simcoe in Toronto, Canada ...

Slovak tenor, Juraj Holly, graduated from the Music Academy in Bratislava. His first appearance on the opera stage was in 2010 at the Wiener Kammeroper as Gernando in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata, followed by many other engagements in the coming years at Ostrava Opera, at the State Opera in Kosice and at the National State Opera in Bratislava. 2011 he got invited at the Festival of Polish Music to interpret the role of Paolo Monti in Poniatowski’s Pierre de Medicis. ...

One of the highlights of previous seasons of the Slovak baritone Aleš Jenis was his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London in Janacek’s From the house of the dead. The same title he has also performed in other prestigious European Theaters, such as Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre Royal la Monnaie in Bruxelles and Opéra National de Lyon. ...

Armenian bass Sargis Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was born in Yerevan in the family of hereditary artists. His grandfather Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan is one of the founders of the Armenian classical school of painting. ...

Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition. In 2005 he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. ...

The Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (ANPO) was founded in 1925 by Arshak Adamyan and Alexander Spendiaryan. ...

The outstanding Armenian conductor Eduard Topchjan studied violin at the Yerevan Conservatory and went on to study conducting with the prominent Armenian conductor Ohan Durian, followed by valuable consultations from Sir George Solti, Claudio Abbado and Nello Santi. ...

The choir Little Singers of Armenia was founded in 1992 under the auspices of the Armenian Little Singers International Association and Yerevan Municipality, bringing together talented youths from Yerevan and the surrounding provinces. ...