Ashot Ariyan

His compositions have been performed in concert halls in Russia, Armenia, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Canada and the United States.

A year later, after gaining a master's degree, he became a Teaching Assistant of Prof. Karen Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory and taught as a lecturer in Composition and Music Theory.

The goal of his doctoral program was to revive the neglected genre of opera-ballet by writing his own work in that medium, entitled "Bilgamesh" (or "Gilgamesh"),[4] in which the archaic Mesopotamian languages Sumerian and Akkadian are used exclusively.

His recent work, Planète X (Un train pour l’enfer II) for seven instruments, was performed in Montreal with great success by the Arkea ensemble in November 2013.

In 2016 his music accompanied a presentation of the ballet "Two Suns" directed by Rudolf Kharatian and dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian genocide.