Robert is an Armenian musician (guitarist, songwriter, producer etc.) based in the UK, originally from Artsakh. He holds a BA in Jazz Guitar from the Yerevan State Conservatory, graduating with honours, and later completed MA in Music Production 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 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 where my solo was featured by the International Jazz Day social media story. Within the orchestra, he also collaborated remotely with Serj Tankian on a re-recording of his 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, seeing 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 (e.g. in The Waltz). 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 at the Yerevan State Conservatory before continuing my work in the UK, he has come to see artistic identity as something that evolves rather than stays fixed.
Inspired by artists such as The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, Björk and many others, Robert 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’s interested in a future where Armenian creativity is collaborative, outward-looking, and experimental, connecting local experience with global exchange.
Robert isn’t trying to globalise Armenian music into something generic. Rather, he hopes to see Armenian artists feel confident enough to experiment, using our 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’s 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.