Robert is an Armenian musician (guitarist, songwriter, producer) based in the UK, originally from Artsakh. He holds a BA in Jazz Guitar from the Yerevan State Conservatory, from where he graduated with honours, and later completed an MA in Music Production obtained with distinction at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. Robert is also a member of the London-based band The Concierge, whose EP Check In (May 2025) led to live performances, including a fundraising performance work with War Child UK and headline shows in London venues.
From 2020 to 2023, he performed with the Artsakh State Jazz Orchestra (conductor Tigran Suchyan), including a performance during the Stepanakert blockade on International Jazz Day amid the Stepanakert blockade, where his solo was highlighted on the official International Jazz Day social media channels. Within the orchestra, he also collaborated remotely with Serj Tankian on a re-recording of Tankian's song Distant Thing during this period.
Since relocating to the UK in 2023, his practice has focused on songwriting and alternative rock production. His debut album, All It Takes (October 2025), explores identity, displacement, and human nature. It sees the future with curiosity and a childlike perspective, through experimental rock textures influenced by artists such as The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, Björk, Talking Heads, and more, as well as some classical music influence. Songs from the album have received airplay on independent UK stations, including Soho Radio and Wigwam Radio.
Robert explores the idea of future identity — imagining new creative and cultural spaces shaped by movement, resilience, and hybrid artistic language.
Growing up in Artsakh and training as a jazz musician in Armenia before continuing his work in the UK, Robert has come to see artistic identity as something that evolves rather than stays fixed. He sees music as a space where genre boundaries can blur, and different identities can exist freely.
Instead of focusing on nostalgia, his work looks at how heritage can inspire imagination — how memory, displacement, and resilience can lead to new creative languages. He is interested in a future where Armenian creativity is collaborative, outward-looking, and experimental, connecting local experience with global exchange.
Robert is not trying to globalise Armenian music into something generic. Rather, he hopes to see Armenian artists feel confident enough to experiment, using his cultural heritage as a foundation for new ideas rather than a limitation.
Through composing, performing, and recording what he genuinely feels in the moment, Robert aims to contribute, by creating sound worlds that are open and forward-looking. Living and working abroad, he is often asked where he comes from, and these conversations give him the chance to share Armenia — its culture, music, and creative spirit. Robert sees his practice as part of bringing Armenian artistic identity into new spaces. Bands like System of a Down show how this can happen: although their music is largely rooted in rock and metal, their artistic voice helped bring global attention to Armenian history and identity. In a similar spirit, Robert aims for his work to communicate cultural presence through expression, connection, and dialogue.