Chouchane Siranossian

Her father, Alexandre Siranossian [hyw], is an expert in Armenian music.

She began studying the violin with the Hungarian-born violinist and conductor Tibor Varga.

After finishing her training with Zakhar Bron in Zurich she became concertmaster of the St Gallen Symphony Orchestra.

[2] A few years later she met the early music specialist Reinhard Goebel and began playing the baroque violin.

Of Siranossian's improvisation on Havun, Havun ("The Bird Was Awake") by the 10th-century Armenian mystic Krikor Naregatsi, the music critic Fiona Maddocks wrote in The Guardian: "Here was infinity in the palm of Siranossian’s hand, eternity in a metropolitan lunch hour.