1951 – graduated from the theoretician-composer faculty of Yerevan State Conservatory named after Komitas

1954 – graduated from Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi

1941 – Participated in the Great Patriotic War. As a steadfast fighter of the 89th Armenian Rifle Division, he fought with his comrades of the 400th Regiment in Crimea and Sevastopol

1944 – on May 9, he was wounded in one of the battles for Sevastopol, after a long treatment, he was discharged as a 2nd group invalid in November of the same year

1951-1961 – lecturer at the Romanos Melikyan Music College (head of theory department)

Since 1961 – lecturer at the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas (YSCK)

Since 1971 – associate professor of YSCK, then professor of music theory department

Author of choruses, plays. Creator of the theory of the universal superlative Tone System of music.

Author of articles on music theory

1964 – “From the experience of musical methodical unification work” (“Secondary Vocational Education” magazine, №7)

1968 – Candidate of Arts, Dissertation “Textbook of Harmony, Part 2”

1973 – “The universal supermode system in Armenian music” (“Historical Journal of the Academy of Sciences of the ASSR”, №3)

1974 – “Some issues of harmony in the light of the Universal supermode system and their interpretation in other modern theoretical exercises” (“Interuniversity collection of scientific works. Art”, Yerevan, №1)

1960 – Harmony textbook (2 parts)

1997 – 20th century musical modal-tonic system. Abstracts of the report at the international conference “Musical culture before the 21st century”

1998 – Textbook of polyphony

1999 – About the modal-harmonic features of Aram Khachatryan’s works. // Issues of theory and aesthetics of Armenian musical creativity

2000 – The question of mode development of relational music hearing

2000 – The principles of development of musical language in 20th century composer works // Theses of the report at the Republican scientific-theoretical conference (part 1)

2000 – Territorial function of modal phases. // R. A collection of joint musicological works with R. Stepanyan (part 1)

Candidate of Arts

Professor of YSCK

Honored Art Worker of the ASSR

1943 – Medal “For Great Merit in Combat Services”

1944 – Medal “For Courage”

1944 – Medal “For the Defense of Caucasus”