Education
Moscow Conservatory.
Moscow Conservatory.
He taught composition in the Moscow State Conservatory. Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse (first staged in 1939). Sergey Balasanian was awarded of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1949) and five orders.
In 1957 he was decorated as People's Artist of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1963 as Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR.
Union of Soviet Composers.