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is her sister. She began studying the violin with the Hungarian-born violinist and conductor Tibor Varga. After finishing her training with

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in Zurich she became concertmaster of the St Gallen Symphony Orchestra. A few years later she met the early music specialist

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and began playing the

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. She received International Classical Music Awards in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Of Siranossian's improvisation on ''Havun, Havun'' ("The Bird Was Awake") by the 10th-century Armenian mystic

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, the music critic

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wrote in '' The Guardian'': "Here was infinity in the palm of Siranossian’s hand, eternity in a metropolitan lunch hour."

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1984 births Living people French people of Armenian descent 21st-century French violinists 21st-century women musicians French women classical violinists Baroque-violin players {{France-classical-musician-stub