Mansurian Views
Tigran Mansurian (Armenian: Տիգրան Մանսուրյան, sometimes translated Tigran Mansourian) (born 27 January 1939) is an Armenian composer of classical music and film scores. He was born in Beirut and educated in Yerevan, Armenia, where his family had moved in 1947. He studied first at the Romanos Melikian Music College under the Armenian composer Edvard Baghdasaryan and later at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory.[1][2]
Kashkashian's throaty, burnished tone cuts straight to the heart of ...and Then I Was in Time Again, a concerto that vividly depicts a sense of the isolation and timelessness Mansurian found in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.... [In the Violin Concerto] and throughout Monodia, Mansurian conjures a spare, absorbing beauty that richly repays pondering. Steve Smith
Mansurian was born in 1939 and spent the first several years of his life in Beirut before his family returned to Yerevan. Starting in 1960, he taught at the state conservatory there, where he became the director in 1990. He no longer holds that position, however, preferring to write music instead. This is the third ECM disc to feature his music, after 2003's Hayren (ECM New Series 1754) and 2004's Monodia (ECM New Series 1850/51).
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