Vartan Agopian

Vartan Agopian has completed his doctoral work in the Faculty of Education, Department of Music at Charles University in Prague. Driven by a passion for music and psychology, Vartan Agopian has always strived to combine the two. Aside from being a concert pianist, Vartan Agopian has worked as a school psychologist for five years and has taught psychology at the high school and university levels. His first master’s was in school psychology, with a research on the relationship of performance anxiety and social phobia among music students. His Ph.D. research is on the role of self-regulation and self-efficacy in self-evaluation and improved performance.