Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonian)
Komitas was a composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist, singer, choir conductor, flautist, and teacher. He is the founder of Armenian national school of musical composition.
Komitas was born on 1869 in Anatolia (now Turkey) in the town of Koutina (Ketaia). He visited various regions of Armenia treating and putting down thousands of Armenian, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish songs. In Constantinopole (now Istanbul) Komitas organized a mixed choir of 300 men. Armenian folk songs constituted most of its concerto program.
In April 1915, Komitas was arrested together with the number of outstanding Armenian writers, publicists, physicians, and lawyers. After the arrest, accompanied by violence, he was deported far in Anatolia where he became a witness of the brutal extermination of the nation’s bright minds. And in spite of the fact that due to the intervention of influential figures Komitas was returned to Constantinople, the nightmare he had experienced left a deep ineradicable impression on his soul.
In 1916 Komitas’ health deteriorated and he was put in a psychiatric hospital. The genius of Armenian music found his final shelter in Paris, in the suburban sanatorium, where he spent almost 20 years of his life. Komitas was both an eyewitness and an improbably survived victim of the Armenian genocide of 1915. ( www.Komitas.am )

Loris Tjeknavorian
Maestro Loris Tjeknavorian is an internationally celebrated conductor and composer. Born in 1937 to an Armenian family in Iran, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and conducting at the University of Michigan. As a conductor he has appeared with many of the world's major orchestras. He has written more than 75 compositions, including major works of sacred music. Tjeknavorian has also written a work on the Armenian Genocide named "Requiem for martyrs" (Hokehangist Nahataknerin). This work has modern structure and performs by 72 percussion instruments. He awarded with the highest award of Iran for contribution to Art. His mother was survivor of the Genocide. ( www.LorisTjeknavorian.com )

System Of A Down
The members of System Of A Down, the hard rock band, who are of Armenian descent, all lost family members and family history to the Armenian genocide. The band feels compelled to support and promote organizations such as the Zoryan Institute, which conducts historical research, produces publications and promotes education in the field "Because so much of our family history was lost in the Armenian Genocide," said guitarist Daron Malakian.
 ( www.SystemOfADown.com )

Avetis Janbazian
He is a member of Janbazian well-known Iranian-Armenian artist family and is a musician and composer. His "April 24" poem-symphony was written in 1963 and is one of his best works, which includes explanatory spirit on the peaceful life of Armenian nation and massacre the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. This symphony for first time was performed by 90 members "No Tankustler" orchestra of Vienna.

Daniel Decker
American singer-songwriter Daniel Decker sang "Adana" at the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan. The song “Adana” tells the story of the Armenian Genocide, during which soldiers of the Ottoman Empire forced 1.5 million Armenians into starvation, torture and extermination because they would not renounce their Christian faith. The song is a collaboration between Decker, who wrote its powerful lyrics, and Ara Gevorgian, its composer.