Tigran Mansurjan

Mansurian studied Beethoven's 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 and coupled them with thoughts by Proust and T. S. Eliot: The smallest things in life, the little, seemingly useless facts of everyday life are given...

The String Trio by the Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian has been premiered in 2009 at Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Glendale, California. 'Mansurian's new trio is in three short movements. In the fi...

The String Trio by the Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian has been premiered in 2009 at Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Glendale, California. 'Mansurian's new trio is in three short movements. In the fi...

After I had dedicated my first quartet (1983/84) to the memory of a friend and musician who died young, I had to mourn the death of yet another friend: Eduard Khagagortyan. To him, I dedicated my seco...

The present publication is based on an earlier vocal composition by Mansurian with the same title Four Hayrens for mezzo-soprano and piano (1967). Forty years later, in 2007 (and again revised in 2010...

What does the Lotus Effect have to do with modal structures and prosodic forms of ancient Armenian sacred music? Tigran Mansurian attempts to fathom these mysteries - the magical plant with its unique...

In Armenia, the clarinet is considered a popular instrument. Almost all of our duduk players also play the clarinet. In some villages, they call it gralnet and they call the player gralnetist. In Para...

Viola und 4 Männerstimmen (Countertenor, 2 Tenöre, Bariton).

Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them,...

Composed in 2006 for the 15th Oleg Kagan Festival in Wildbad Kreuth, 'Agnus Dei' is one of Mansurjan's meditative works in which he aims at a synthesis of new techniques and old Armenian musical tradi...