Dr. Naira Vardanyan is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky School of Music, a special school for talented students in the former USSR . She received her Master's Degree in piano performance and pedagogy and Doctorate Degree in piano performance and chamber music performance from the Komitas Conservatory of Music, where she had the opportunity to perform as concertmaster under Professor Ketty Malkhasian, a student of the famous Nikolay Igumnov. Dr. Vardanyan has also studied at the Hanover Conservatory with Professor Maria Egehoff ( Germany ).