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OUTSTANDING COMPOSER TIGRAN MANSURIAN CELEBRATES 75TH BIRTHDAY
January 27, 2014 - 16:47 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Outstanding Armenian composerTigran Mansurian
celebrates his 75th birthday on January 27.
Mansurian was born in Beirut; in 1947 Mansurian's family moved to
Armenia, finally settling in the capital Yerevan in 1956. Mansurian
studied at the Yerevan Music Academy with Edvard Bagdasaryan and
completed his PhD with Lazar Saryan at the Yerevan State Musical
Conservatory where he later taught contemporary music analysis.
In a short time he became one of Armenia's leading composers,
establishing strong creative relationships with international
performers and composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Part, Alfred
Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Andre Volkonsky and Edison Denisov as
well as Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek, and the Hilliard Ensemble.
Mansurian was the director of the Komitas Conservatory in the 1990s.
He has recently retired as an administrator and teacher, and
concentrates exclusively on composition. Mansurian's musical style
is characterized mainly by the organic synthesis of ancient Armenian
musical traditions and contemporary European composition methods. His
oeuvre comprises orchestral works, seven concerti for strings and
orchestra, sonatas for cello and piano, three string quartets,
madrigals, chamber music and works for solo instruments.
Tigran Mansurian was nominated for a Grammy award in 2006. He was
the first Armenian composer to have ever been nominated for this award.
From: A. Papazian
January 27, 2014 - 16:47 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Outstanding Armenian composerTigran Mansurian
celebrates his 75th birthday on January 27.
Mansurian was born in Beirut; in 1947 Mansurian's family moved to
Armenia, finally settling in the capital Yerevan in 1956. Mansurian
studied at the Yerevan Music Academy with Edvard Bagdasaryan and
completed his PhD with Lazar Saryan at the Yerevan State Musical
Conservatory where he later taught contemporary music analysis.
In a short time he became one of Armenia's leading composers,
establishing strong creative relationships with international
performers and composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Part, Alfred
Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Andre Volkonsky and Edison Denisov as
well as Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek, and the Hilliard Ensemble.
Mansurian was the director of the Komitas Conservatory in the 1990s.
He has recently retired as an administrator and teacher, and
concentrates exclusively on composition. Mansurian's musical style
is characterized mainly by the organic synthesis of ancient Armenian
musical traditions and contemporary European composition methods. His
oeuvre comprises orchestral works, seven concerti for strings and
orchestra, sonatas for cello and piano, three string quartets,
madrigals, chamber music and works for solo instruments.
Tigran Mansurian was nominated for a Grammy award in 2006. He was
the first Armenian composer to have ever been nominated for this award.
From: A. Papazian