Tigran Mansuryan

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1939-01-27 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Beirut, Lebanon

Also Known As Тигран Мансурян, Տիգրան Մանսուրյան, Tigran Mansurjan, Tigran Mansurian, ティグラン・マンスリアン, ტიგრან მანსურიანი, 提格蘭·曼修靈, Tigran Mansourian

Tigran Mansuryan

Biography

Mansurian was born in Beirut, Greater Lebanon on January 27, 1939. His family moved to the Armenian SSR in 1947 and settled in Yerevan in 1956, where he continued his education. He studied first at the Romanos Melikian Music School under the Armenian composer Edvard Baghdasaryan and later at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. During his years of study, he wrote different works of varied genres and was awarded for some of them. He taught modern music theory at the Conservatory from 1967 to 1986. He was the Rector of the Conservatory from 1992 to 1995. An ECM album of Mansurian's music, Monodia, was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)" and "Best Classical Contemporary Composition". In 2017, ECM's recording of Mansurian's Requiem was nominated for two Grammys. The Requiem received the Presidential Award of Armenia for its commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. On January 27, 2024, a concert of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra commemorating Mansurian's 85th birthday occurred at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. Included was his viola concerto, "...and then I was in time again", played by Sergey Poltavsky. The program concluded with excerpts of Mansurian's film music.

Known For

Sound

2021
Zulali

as Original Music Composer

1985
White Dreams

as Music

1983
Գոտեմարտ

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Song of the Old Days

as Original Music Composer

1982
Gikor

as Music

1980
A Piece of Sky

as Original Music Composer

1978
The Mountain

as Music

1978
Arevik

as Music

1977
Autumn Sun

as Music

1975
The Seasons

as Music

1973
Lilith

as Music

1971
Honor of the Poor

as Original Music Composer

1969
The Color of Pomegranates

as Original Music Composer