Haig UTIDJIAN, PhD, is an orchestral conductor, chorus master and musicologist based in Prague. In his native Cyprus he was a pupil of Abp. Zareh Aznaworean of blessed memory, and he is a Senior Deacon of the Armenian Church, with research interests in the Musicology and theology of the Armenian Hymnal and in the works of St. Gregory of Narek. He was recently decorated with the Komitas medal by the Armenian state and the Yakob Mełapart medal by the National Library of Armenia. His publications include the volumes “They who imbibed the effusions of the Spirit”: The Art of the Armenian Book through the Ages (2016), Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnal (2017), and Treasures of the earliest Christian nation: Spirituality, Art and Music in Mediaeval Armenian manuscripts (2018).
