Tigran Abramovich Alikhanov Moscow Conservatory’s head of the Chamber Ensemble and Quartet Department passed away on Oct. 29 at the age of 80. Alikhanov was born in 1943 in Moscow. His father Abram Alikhanov, was the founder and first director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics named after him. His mother Slava Roshal, was a violin soloist at {…}