«His song has grown up to the parade of generations»
— Hrach Tamrazyan

The legend, known as «Apostles» was born in the late 1960's, initiated by Arthur Meschian. Songs of three architecture students of Yerevan Institute of Technology (aka Politechnik) —Meschian hisself, Levon Melikian and Grikor Nalbandian, quickly rose to become the voice of a generation. Amalgamating Armenian gospel with rock rhythms, the band left an unforgettable impression on their audience. Even Soviet censorship of the times couldn't stop the wave «apostolomania» during 1970's, when thousands of Armenians were listening the band's amateur records on boom-boxes. At the same years «Apostles» performed Meschian’s theatrical piece "The Insane Asylum", which quickly became recognized as the first Armenian rock opera. Then they went on to tour a number of Soviet Republics, playing at college campuses across the USSR.

In 1974, while still with the "Apostles", Meschian was commissioned by the great Catolicos Vazgen the First to write a requiem dedicated to those fallen in 1915, bringing together the pioneering style of his rock band and the classical sounds of the Armenian Chamber Orchestra. In search of the lyrical content for this piece, Meschian turned to a book called "The Suffering" (Tarapank) by the great Armenian poet Mushegh Ishkhan, who had experienced the Genocide as a child fleeing death with his remaining family. Through Ishkhan's words, Meschian and the "Apostles" delivered the true essence of the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. A year later “Requiem” was performed in Holly Etchmiadzin and was blessed by Vazgen the First. Though the album «Requiem» has never been published, some of it's songs later became Meschian's classic.

In 1978 Meschian first appeared on the 2nd channel of national television, avoiding all the banns. This happened through scoring the music for a televised play «The Cannibal» («Mardaker») which, actually, even had a political undertone.

During the next decade «Apostles» disappeared from the scene, and in 1984 Meschian began his own way with a new lineup including two of his protégés - Vahan Artsruni and Gourgen Melikian. This marked the beginning of Meschian's flourishing musical career. Though the doors to main concert halls were still closed for Meschian's concerts, he continued packing auditoriums of every type possible. The "Apostles" fans, now as mature adults, continued to show. Also new faces began to appear. A new wave of college students caught wind of what was happening in the underground and with every show their numbers increased. The dates were announced by word of mouth one or two days prior to the concerts, so as to prevent the local authorities from seizing the chance to interfere.

Meschian's charisma won the attention of a number of Armenian film makers. Meschian was hounded with multiple offers to appear in films. He continuously declined every single offer that came his way. Then in 1981, Meschian performed the lead role in a film about Armenain poet Mikael Nalbandyan and also got full creative control over the music (actually, soundtrack was the main reason he agreed to take part in the project). This was his first and last opportunity to professionally record his music while still living in USSR, in the «Melodia» record studio. The film included three instrumental pieces and the song “Ancient Land" (Yerkir Hnamya), written especially for the film. 8 years later, in 1989 the second film with Meschian — “And everything will be repeated” was presented.

At the same time Meschian, who always mentions that he's an architect, not a musician, found an opportunity to work by his real profession in Armpromproject. During this years he created the projects of Zvartnots international airport in Yerevan, The House of the Governmental Receptions and new corpus of Matenadaran (building of which actually finally began in 2008). But in late 1980's the difficult times in Armenia began. In 1988 the Karabakh movement started. Like the most of the nation and it's artists, Meschian rose up his voice against the events happening to Armenians in Karabakh. At the same time he understood, that those who are leading the country in that movement will not bring to any good. As a result — after Soviet Union's collaps Armenia drowned in darkness, cold and disorder…

In 1989, two years before USSR’s collapse, with his wife and two sons Meschian moved to the US seeking the opportunity to record and document twenty years worth of material he had written. In 1990 he emerged with his first full length album "Catharsis". In 1992 he released the "Monologue of the Crazed Violinist." In 1996 he released "Catharsis II", "Wander", and "Communion". All this albums immediately became bestsellers among Armenian diaspora and in Armenia itself.

The new page in Arhur Meschian's life, whose songs are already the classic for several generations of Armenians, was opened in 2005. After 17 years living and working in the United States he returned to his motherland with wife. The series of concerts that followed his return were a balm for his fans, who managed to see him performing live concerts after many years. The logical continuation of these performances was two live albums. Though they had a huge success, today Arthur Meschian is mostly working as an architect in Yerevan.