Ashot was born in 1980 in Yerevan, Armenia. Graduating from The Tchaikovsky Music School he received his higher music education as a violinist and composer at the Yerevan State Conservatory (1997-2002, classes of professors Genrikh Smbatian and Edvard Mirzoyan) and has won prizes in three national music competitions.

While studying in the conservatory in 2002 he was invited by the Virtuosi of Armenia Chamber Orchestra to tour Iran, and the same year joined the Yerevan Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Symphony Orchestra of Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and in 2005 was invited by Maestro Valery Gergiev to join the International Symphony Orchestra to perform the jubilee concert in Moscow, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Victory in WWII. He has taken part in the tours with the Symphony Orchestra of the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia, Turkey and Greece, and joined the Cadence Ensemble in March 2006.