The Armenian-Norwegian pianist Mariam Kharatyan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared at festivals and concerts with orchestras in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania, the USA, and Armenia. She has two Master's degrees in piano performance – from the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia, and the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. From 2015-2019 Kharatyan worked on her artistic research Ph.D. project Armenian Fingerprints, interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music. In 2019 she released two albums - Khachaturian, Chamber Music, and Komitas, Shoror published with Simax Classics and Grappa Musikkforlag. Kharatyan is a member of the project REACT - Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Institutions, 2020-2023, funded by ERASMUS+ and the European Commission. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Music and Music Education at the University of Agder, Norway.