# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loris-tjeknavorian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:34.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loris-tjeknavorian"
name: "Loris Tjeknavorian"
slug: "loris-tjeknavorian"
description: "Loris Haykasi Tjeknavorian is an Iranian Armenian composer and conductor. He has appeared internationally as a conductor, serving as the principal conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1998 and later from 1999 to 2000. As a composer Tjeknavorian has written 6 operas, 5 symphonies, choral works, chamber music, ballet music, piano and vocal works, concerti for piano, violin, guitar, cello and pipa, as well as music for documentary and feature films. Among his best known works are the opera Rostam and Sohrab, based on the story of Rostam and Sohrab from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, and the ballet Simorgh."
tagline: "Armenian-Iranian conductor and composer (b. 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Loris_Tjeknavorian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.92988266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2270
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/loristjeknavorian/"
    handle:    "loristjeknavorian"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1286888/"
    handle:    "nm1286888"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чкнаворян, Лорис Айказович"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Loris Tjeknavorian"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump