Moscow to host Tigran Mansuryan’s concert

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: The 75thbirthday jubilee evening of the great Armenian composer Tigran Mansuryan will be held on September 5 at the Rachmaninov Concert Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire. Tigran Mansuryan told the Armenpress correspondent that the concert will be attended by his close friends.

“My friends want to congratulate me on my 75thanniversary. The piano player Alexey Lyubimov initiated this concert. The violinist Hayk Ghazaryan, pianist Alexey Lyubimov, cellist Alexander Rudin, violist Sergey Poltavsky and clarinetist Mikhail Beznosov will perform during the evening”, - said Mansuryan.

Tigran Mansuryan was born inBeirutand educated inYerevan, Armenia, where his family had moved in 1947 and settled inYerevanin 1956.He studied first at theRomanos MelikianMusic College under the Armenian composerEdvard Baghdasaryanand later at theYerevan Komitas Stat Conservatory.His "Monodia" album was nominated for the 2005Grammy Awardfor "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra)" and "Best Classical Contemporary Composition."