Ayk Martirossian

AYK MARTIROSSIAN was born in Armenia and studied at the Russian Gnessin Academy. He was a soloist at the New Opera Theatre Moscow from 1994-1996, and from 1996-2004, soloist at the Bolchoi Theatre. Performances have taken him to the Bavarian State Opera, the Met, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro La Fenice, Tokyo Opera, Teatro Lirico di Trieste, to San Francisco, Canadian Opera, Las Palmas, Tel Aviv, Florenz, Turin, Lisbon and Hamburg. His repertoire includes Zaccaria, Fiesco, Lord Sidney, Balthasar, Basilio, Ferrando, Boris, Pimen, Gremin, Colline, Fafner, Geronte, Padre Guardiano, Raimondo, Alvise, Oroveso, Sparafucile, Timur, Il Grande Inquisitore, Filippo II, Don Ruy Gomez de Silva. He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Renato Polumbo, Marcelo Viotti, Seiji Ozawa, Paolo Carigniani, Fabio Luisi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Asher Fisch and Simone Young. He is a Member of the Ensemble at the Vienna State Opera and gave his debut performance here in 1998. Here, he has performed such roles as King (Aida), Old Slave Labourer (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), High Priest of Bel (Nabucco).