Diran Tavitjan was born 1977 in Skopje, Macedonia. He got in touch with music at 6 years when he start attending piano at the classical music school. At that time his father, one of the best drummers on the Balkans Garabet Tavitjan was member of very famous jazz-rock band called Leb i Sol. Since then he was immediately attracted with jazz and contemporary music.
Diran has a complete music education as a pianist and percussion player.
Later, he had private studies of jazz theory and arranging with Ilija Pejovski who graduated at Berklee College of music class 1977.
Since recently Diran is a fellowship holder of prestigious Jazz Music Academy Berklee College of music, in Boston.
Tavitjan has been actively engaged in musical creativity – composing, arranging and performing.
He has been appearing and performing at numerous concerts organized within the Musical Academy by its orchestra and, also he has had many soloist performances at the “Days of Macedonian Music”.
From 1995, his primary engagement became his father’s band “Garo & Paramecium” where Diran took part as a composer, arranger and performer and successfully fulfilled his working carrier till present day. The music behind this band is a mixture of jazz, rock, funk and Macedonian traditional music in highly energetic manner. With Paramecium, Diran has many appearances on Jazz festivals at the Balkans as well as the local jazz club scenes such as Lucky Strike Jazz festival in Belgrade where he shared the stage with world most prominent musicians like, Joe Zawinull, Branford Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, The Blues Brothers etc,
and other festivals in Belgrade, Croatia, Bulgaria Greece and Italy.
In addition to all this, Tavitjan is the music author of a few multimedia projects, such as for example the feature-length film “Variations of Life”, a film of American production, whose director is Pece Gurcinovski Dingo. The project was highly estimated by several renowned film and music critics, such as for example Marc Isham.
As an arranger, Tavitjan has worked with many Macedonian famous pop artists with great success considering the Skopje Fest recent award for best arrangement for the Eurosong contest 2002 in Estonia.
At the moment Tavitjan is working as composer, arranger and performer with Garo & Paramecium band, also with his new Jazz trio called “Tavitjan Brothers” featuring his brother Garo Tavitjan (Drums), and Dragan Trajkovski (Bass).
They just released their first CD called “Tavitjan Brothers Trio” which is also on international jazz competition organized by SONY in London, UK. Diran Tavitjan entered among 12 finalist who will have their track released on SONYJAZZ label. With such a brilliant Jazz trio album, future sure looks bright for his music aspirations.

Other performances:

International:
- Jazz festivals in Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy etc.

In Macedonia:
- ‘Ohrid Summer’ – Ohrid
- ‘Heraclea Nights’ – Bitola
- ‘Kumanovo Jazz Festival’ – Kumanovo
- Concerts in Skopje (The Macedonian National Theatre, Square ‘Macedonia’, Suli An, Universal Hall, Kursumli An, humanitarian concerts, 19,19 etc.).