Arutyun Piloyan, a native of Armenia, graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory and currently studies at the Schwob School of Music in the USA as a graduate student with Prof. Sergiu Schwartz. Arutyun’s previous violin teachers include Nikolay Enyukov, Alvia Vandysheva, Eduard Grach, and Graf Mourja.

A winner in numerous competitions, Arutyun’s success includes First Prizes at competitions for young violinists in Kaspiysk and Makhachkala (Republic of Dagestan), Second Prize at the Renaissance International Komitas Competition (Armenia), Gold Medal at the Fuat Mansurov Competition in Moscow (Russia), First Prize and Gold Medal at the Citta di Pesaro International Violin Competition (Italy), Third Prize winner at the MTNA Competition (USA). Arutyun is also a winner of the Schwob School of Music Concerto Competition 2019 Arutyun Piloyan has toured the US, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, Oman, Armenia, Russia. He appeared as a soloist and performed in some of Russia’s famous concert halls, including the Bolshoi, Maly, and Rachmaninov halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Myaskovsky Hall, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Moscow International House of Music and the St. Petersburg House of Music.

Since 2019 Arutyun has also committed himself to jazz and improvisation. He played at various famous jazz clubs in Moscow and the US. Currently, Arutyun is a soloist in the Jazz Ensemble at the Schwob School of Music.

In 2010 Arutyun began his teaching career as a private tutor and also as a teaching assistant at the college at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Currently Arutyun is an active pedagogue. He has created his own teaching method to work with people of different levels: from beginners to advanced students who are willing to learn and improve their violin skills.