AnahitTsitsikian.com world renown violinist Anahit Tsitsikian official website
Anahit Tsitsikian was a Merited Artist of Armenia (1967), PhD of Musical Science (1970), and Professor of Music (1982). She passed away May 2, 1999 in Yerevan.
During her artistic life Professor Anahit Tsitsikian performed in more than 1000 recitals, recorded sixty pieces of archived music and authored more than 300 articles and scenarios for many radio and television programs. She was a member of many local and international organizations such as: Composer’s Union of Armenia, Composers of USSR, Armenian Theater Union, Journalist’s Union, Women’s Committee of the USSR, AOKSZ (The Cultural liaison committee of Armenia with foreign countries), “History of World Culture” Committee in the Academy of Science, USSR; The World Scientific Association of Historical Archaeology, etc. She was the only female-violinist to travel throughout the world during the Soviet period. She was a professor who taught at the Yerevan State Conservatory for about a half a century; a musicologist; and author of many articles, as well as scripts for television and radio programs. She was also doing scientific research where she established a systematic history of Armenian Performing Arts. The last 20 years of her life were dedicated to fundamental research in the field of ancient music history and in fact she became the founder of a new branch of Armenian musicology – “Musical Archaeology”.
On this webpage you can read about her art and her life, see a map of her voyages, learn about her repertoire and browse through her discography. You can also view a list of her key articles, a list of conferences she attended, as well as enjoy a photo gallery of well-known musicians, who she met and collaborated with throughout her career. www.AnahitTsitsikian.com
