NatalieGalstyan

Principal Conductor

She is a Yerevan-born pianist, musicologist, theorist, conductor, and educator.
In 1999, she graduated from the Department of Conducting at the Yerevan State Conservatory of Gomidas.

Immediately after completing her PhD in 2001, she was appointed as the conductor of the Armenian Music Society’s Choir of Aram Ter-Hovhannisyan.

In 2007, she again graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory, specialising in Opera and Symphony conducting.

In 2008, she conducted the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. The following couple of years, she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Opera at the Yerevan State Conservatory.

At the same time, she founded the Dominatus Vox Orchestra and became its artistic director and chief conductor. She also founded Arcus-Cantus Children’s Orchestra and choir.

In 2012, she was invited to join KOHAR big family as an Assistant Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Choir. In 2015, she was appointed as the Conductor of the KOHAR Symphony Orchestra and Choir.