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In 2020, in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, the first collection of transcriptions for violin and piano by Ruben Kosemyan was published by "Music Planet" Publishing House. The release was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster Komitas, and includes the transcriptions of works by Komitas, as well as F. Liszt, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Rachmaninoff. The collection and piano part edited by pianist Natalya Mnatsakanyan.

Ruben Kosemyan's new CD "Aram & Karen Khachaturian. Music for Violin and Piano" was released in November 2018.

In 2009 Ruben was invited to join the "Khachaturian" State quartet as first violin, where he worked until 2010. Since 2010, Kosemyan has been living in Canada where he's organized a group of professional musicians for live performances and recordings of classical, romantic and some modern music.

In 2005 Kosemyan founded the Piano Trio. In October 31/2007, he was awarded a Gold medal, "UNESCO Aram Khachaturian Centenary" by the "Composers Union" of Armenia.

In 1998 Kosemyan began teaching violin and chamber ensemble classes at the Yerevan State Conservatory, and in 2000 he was selected as head of the department of classical music at the "House of Music and Culture", Kish Island.

Kosemyan has attended master-classes under the guidance of Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrach, Tibor Varga, Ruben Aharonyan (First violin of State Borodin quartet), Jean Ter-Merguerian, Ivan Monighetti, Eduard Tatevosyan and Dominique de Williencourt. In 1997 he was granted the prestigious Vladimir Spivakov scholarship.

At the age of four he began studying violin under the guidance of his father Alexander Kosemyan (Violist with the State Komitas quartet) and Tatyana Hayrapetyan in Special Music School after Tchaikovsky. At age of 9 he played Mendelssohn and Mozart violin concertos with orchestra. A year later Ruben played in "Palace of Congresses" of Moscow city. In 1987 he moved to Moscow to continue his musical education at the Moscow State Conservatory with professor Maya Glezarova.