After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1995, she spent seven years as a high school instructor of English Literature and Language Arts, in addition to time as a counsellor.
2004 saw Matossian awarded with a Music/Career Development grant from the Canada Council for the Arts[citation needed], providing her the means to release her debut recording, Far from Home, early the same year.
[1] Far from Home has enjoyed airplay across Canada, in the United States and Europe, and was selected in 2005 as one of John Diliberto’s 25 Essential Albums for Echoes radio program on NPR.
Other acclaimed Canadian musicians such as Jesse Zubot, Ernie Tollar, Francois Houle, Elliot Polsky, and Catherine Potter rank among those with whom she has shared a stage.
In 2008 Matossian joined forces with the instrumental world fusion group Free Planet Radio,[3] which includes River Guerguerian (percussion), Chris Rosser (cumbus, oud), and Grammy award winner, Eliot Wadiopian (acoustic bass).