Mikael Avetisyan

Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director and Principal Conductor.

Mikael Avetisyan received his Master’s Degrees in Opera-Symphony Conducting and Ethnomusicology and proceeded to complete his Doctoral Degree at Yerevan State Conservatory under the instruction of two leading professors Maestro Yasha Voskanian and Maestro Ohan Durian.

From 1987 to 1989, parallel to his studies at Yerevan State Conservatory, Mr. Avetisyan completed a course in conducting in the class of Professor Iliya Musin at St. Petersburg State Conservatory. He is a diplomant of the 35th Kirill Kondrashin Conductors Masterclasses held in Netherlands by Sir Edward Downes and Peter Eotvos.

Starting 1992 Mikael Avetisyan regularly performed with the Opera and Ballet National Academic Theater Orchestra and National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Yerevan. In 1994 Mr. Avetisyan was chosen the Principal Conductor of Yerevan State Symphony Orchestra; and subsequently in 1997 was appointed the Music Director and the Principal Conductor of the Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra.

Maestro Avetisyan has conducted the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and a number of European and Russian Orchestras in France, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Russia, Georgia. His recordings with Moscow Symphony Orchestra were released on RCD.

From 2002 to 2007 Mikael Avetisyan was a conductor with the New Valley Symphony Orchestra. Presently, Mikael Avetisyan is the Music Director of the Armenian Society of Los Angeles Choir, and an instructor of composition and conducting at the International School of Music in Glendale.

For his artistic achievements and 2004/05 concert series Mikael Avetisyan was honored with the City of Glendale and County Los Angeles Artistic Achievement Diamond Award. In 2007 Mikael Avetisyan showcases in The Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in Jacksonville, Florida.