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Ekmalian was born on February 2, , in Vagharshapat (now Etchmiadzin) in a peasant family. In he graduated from the Theological Seminary of the Etchmiadzin Catholicosate. In , in St. Echmiadzin, he studied ancient Armenian notography under the prominent composer and musicologist Nikoghayos Tashchian.

Together with his teacher, he recorded and systematized singing liturgical books in Armenian notography. He participated in the publication of collections of sacred music. Catholicos George IV blessed the editions of ancient spiritual hymns, liturgical hymns and the Chronology of the Armenian Church prepared by Tashchian and Ekmalian (Pataragamatuits, , ; Sharaknots, ; Zhamagirk, ).

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​ From he taught singing and theory of Armenian music at the Gevorgian Theological Academy.

 

In he moved to St. Petersburg and two years later entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, receiving permission to study for free.

In parallel, he directed the choir of t