1954-1961 – piano department of Al. Spendiaryan music school

1961-1965 – composition department at the State music college after R. Melikyan (prof. Ed. Baghdasaryan)

1965-1970 – composition department at the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas (YSCK) (prof. Al. Harutyunyan)

1981-1984 – postgraduate course at the YSCK (prof. Ed. Mirzoyan)

1965-1966 – Music school after A. Satian in Goris (piano and theoretical subjects teacher)

1973-1980 – Armenian TV-Radio State Committee (music editor)

1973-1980 – State music college after R. Melikyan (music theory department)

1973-1986 – Sayat-Nova music school (composition teacher)

1980-1986 – Music Pedagogical College after A. Babajanyan (head of the theoretical department)

Since 1986 – YSCK (composition department lecturer)

1990-1994 – Yerevan Chamber Orchestra (art director)

1994-1997 – Armenian Stete TV-Radio (cheif editor of music programs, art director and director of music groups)

Since 2013 – the chairman of CMA (Re-elected in 2017 and 2022)

Operas:

2002 – “Lilith”

2013 – “Little Tsakhes”

Musicals:

2012 – “Morgan’s brother-in-law”

2015 – “One more victim”

Ballet:

2008 – “Mannequin”

Symphonic works:

5 symphonies

Symphonic poems: “Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “Waltz in memory of Ravel”

Concerto for violin and symphonic orchestra

Concerto for cello and symphonic orchestra

Concerto for chamber orchestra

Chamber works:

Quartets

Sonatas

More than 300 songs and romances

Music for theater performances and films

1977 – 3 pieces for piano, “Piano pieces of Armenian composers” collection, “Soviet composer”

1980 – “Suddenly” vocal-instrumental image (by A. Harutyunyan), “Works of Young Armenian Composers” collection, “Soviet composer”, Moscow

1982 – 6 bagatelles for piano, “Chamber works of Armenian composers”, “Soviet writer”, Moscow

1988 – Sonata for violin and bassoon, Pieces for chamber ensembles, 6th issue, “Soviet Composer”, Moscow

1988 – “Metamorphosis” for french horn and string orchestra, Concerts for windpipe, 4th edition, “Soviet Composer”, Moscow

1988 – “Piano works of Soviet composers”, “Soviet writer”, Moscow

1991 – 8 children’s pieces for piano, “Armenian piano pieces” collection, “Anahit”

2006 – Sonata for cello (solo), “Sibelius” publishing house, France, “Comitas” publishing house, “Works of Armenian composers” collection, Yerevan

2007 – Aram Satian, “We play the piano” children’s collection, “Satian publishing house”, Yerevan

2009 – Aram Satian, “Songs and Romances” for voice and piano, Komitas publishing house

2009 – Children’s songbook (“My hedgehog”, “Farewell to school”, “Little Boat”, “Morning”) “Tsitsernak” publishing house, Yerevan

1980 – State Prize of the Young Communist Union of Armenia

1997 – professor at the YSCK

2007 – Gold Medal of the RA Ministry of Culture

2011 – Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia

2013 – “Artavazd” award for the best music of the year (for the musical “Morgan’s brother-in-law”)

2017 – 1st degree medal “For Service to the Motherland”

2022 – Movses Khorenatsi medal for his significant contribution to the development of culture