Studied at the A. S. Pushkin Secondary School in Gyumri (graduated with honors) and the Kara-Murza Music College (with honors)

1955 – Entered the Yerevan State Medical Institute. After entering her 2nd year with honors, she left her studies.

1956-1961 – Department of history and theory, Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas (YSCK)

1961 – Postgraduate student at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR (IAE AS ASSR) (prof. R. Atayan)

1965–1968 – Junior Research Fellow at the IAE AS ASSR

From 1968 until her death, she taught at the YSCK (taught courses on the history of music)

From 1995 – Head of the Department of music history

Since 2004 – Chairman of the music sector of the State prizes of the RA

Until her death, she served as Chairman of the CUA Musicological section

Author of scholarly works, monographs, books, conference reports, radio and television broadcasts, articles, and reviews in the Union and republican press, magazines, and newspapers.

Monographs.

Armenian Urban Folk Song Art (19th–20th Centuries), Yerevan, Publishing house (PH) of the Academy of Sciences of the ASSR, 1973

Medea Abrahamyan (co-authored with A. Barsamyan), Yerevan, “Archesh” PH, 2000

Sirvard Garamanuk. A Life Filled with Music, Yerevan, MLA PH, 2007

Tatul Altunyan and Armenian Song and Dance, Yerevan, “Komitas” PH, 2008

Levon Mamikonyan. Music as a Life Companion, Yerevan, “Komitas” PH, 2009

Samson Gasparyan. Musicologist and Figure, Yerevan, “Komitas” PH, 2010

Collections.

“Our Old Songs” is a collection of spiritual, village, ashug, and urban songs from a concert series dedicated to the 1700th anniversary of Christianity’s establishment as the state religion in Armenia. Foreword by A. Saryan, “Archesh,” Yerevan, 2001

“Collection of Armenian Urban Folk Songs.” Compiled by A. Saryan, “Komitas,” Yerevan, 2010

“Ghazaros Saryan and His Time.” Compiled and edited by A. Saryan, “Komitas,” Yerevan, 2013

“Articles, Reports, Programs.”, “Amrots Group”, 2015

1969 – Candidate of Arts (dissertation on “Armenian Urban Folk Song”)