She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Soviet times; she taught at the State Conservatory for approximately 40 years and wrote more than 300 articles and scenarios for television and radio programs.

She was also a scholar who established a new branch of Armenian musicology, history of performing art,[1] and dedicated the last twenty years of her life to research in the field of ancient music history, becoming the founder of a new branch of Armenian musical archaeology.

Anahit Tsitsikian was born in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), Russia, into a family of an engineer and a doctor.

At the beginning of World War II, at the age of fifteen, she left Leningrad for Armenia.

In 1954 she completed her graduate course at the Moscow State Conservatory (adviser - Professor Konstantin Mostras).

[4] During her artistic life, Tsitsikian performed in more than a thousand recitals, recorded sixty pieces of archived music, and authored more than 300 articles and scripts for many radio and television programs.