Born in Erevan in 1962, Arthur AHARONIAN receives his education as a pianist and composer in Armenia and follows Edouard Baghdassarian and Tigran Mansourian’s composition courses. Furthermore, he perfects his technique at the Tchaïkovski Academy of Music in Moscow, having as teachers Samvel Aloumian and Nikolaï Sidelnikov. During this period he composes works for piano and chorus, the “Pari” chamber opera, all inspired by Armenian popular themes. In 2006 he earns the First Price of the “ Composition Contest” that took place on the occasion of the World Festival of the Underwater Image in Antibes. In December 2007 he earns the “Golden star Halo Award” for “Contribution to the entertainment industry and the performing arts”, Southern California Motion Picture Council in Hollywood. Among his recent compositions, we quote: - “Jonathan’s Ballade”, a symphonic poem interpreted for the first time by the National Orchestra of Île de France, in 2004, at the Mogador Theatre in Paris; - “ Novelettes” for wind quintet, recorded in 2005 by the “Quintette à vent de Bretagne”; - Film music for “Une Oeuvre dans le siècle”, ordered by the UGAB in 2006; - “Rustic Images”, created by “Little Singers of Armenia” in Paris in 2006; - “Concerto for violin and orchestra”, created at the Croisette Theatre in Cannes in 2007 by the Regional Orchestra of Cannes, under the direction of Philippe Bender, solo violin Sergey Khachatryan; - “Divertimento” for alto saxophone, marimba and symphony orchestra in 2008 in Vanves. - “Fresque” for string orchestra, creation on October 10, 2009 at the Daniel-Sorano Theatre, by the Naïri ensemble, under the direction of Haïk Davtian; - “Loneliness” for mixed a capella chorus, based on Komitas’ poems and dedicated to its 140th birthday. Creation on October 18, 2009 at Salle Gaveau by the Armenian Chamber Chorus, under the direction of Robert Melkéyan. | | Born in Moscow in 1963, Haik DAVTIAN belongs to the tradition of Russian violonists. He graduates from the Armenian National Academy of Music in 1985 with a First Price mention and further perfects his art in Moscow with the famous Léonid Kogan, Yakov Rabinovitch and Igor Bezrodny. He is prize winner on the occasion of many contests in the ex Soviet Union. Meanwhile, he brilliantly completes his studies of symphonic and lyric orchestra conductor. In 1987, he becomes permanent conductor of the Opera Orchestra and in 1990, conductor of the Armenian National Radio Orchestra. He is regularly invited as soloist violonist by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Erevan Chamber Orchestra and takes part in a number of tours in all Eastern Europe, United States and Russia. Since its arrival in France in 1991, and more particularly since its nomination at the head of the Naïri Ensemble, Haïk Davtian has decided to turn his musical work towards the promotion of the Armenian music. Within each one of his programs he includes an Armenian piece of music, thus presenting a broad panel of orchestral or lyric music. It is during these years that the will to present programs combining great classical composers with Armenian folklore music was born. |
