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Balasanyan, David (b. October 10, 1983, Yerevan). Armenian composer of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a pianist.
Mr. Balasanyan studied composition and piano with Ashot Hazaryan at a music school in Yerevan from 1991–98 and composition with Ashot Hazaryan and piano with Avetik Pivazyan at the Romanos Melikyan College of Music in Yerevan from 1998–2000. He studied composition with Ashot Zohrabyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 2000–05, where he has had post-graduate studies in composition with Ashot Zohrabyan since 2005.
Among his honors are Second Prize in the Benjamin Britten competition in Yerevan (2003, for Composition for Woodwind Quintet) and the Narekatsi Young Composers Award in Yerevan (2006, for Postlude in memoriam...). His music has been performed in Armenia, Georgia, Switzerland, and the USA.
As a pianist, he has performed his own music, as well as works by classical and contemporary composers, throughout Armenia, notably on the TV program Pshalar.
He is also active in other positions. He has written numerous poems, many of which appear in the collection Arahetner (2001, Mitq). He participated with Ashot Zohrabyan as an Armenian delegate to the European Composers Congress in Vienna (2006). He co-founded with Robert Amirkhanyan the Young Composers Club of the Armenian Composers Union in Yerevan in 2006 and has since served as its co-director with Vahram Sargsyan.
He taught choral writing as an assistant to Gevorg Armenyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 2004–05.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: davbal@freenet.am or davbal@yandex.ru
Street address: Mr. David Balasanyan, Agbiur Serob 8, Apt. 6, 0019 Yerevan, Armenia
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Metamorphoses of a Ritual, 2004–05
CHAMBER MUSIC: Piece, violin, piano, 2000; Sonatine, flute, piano, 2001; Duo, flute, viola, 2002; String Trio, violin, viola, cello, 2002–03; Composition for Woodwind Quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 2002–03; Postlude in memoriam..., violin, piano, 2003–04; Two Little Pieces, French horn, organ, 2004; Flower Garden, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2006; Monologue – Fantasia for Clarinet Solo, 2006
CHORAL: The Preacher of Love (text by Vahan Teryan), mixed chorus, 2001
VOCAL: First Vocal Cycle (text by the composer), soprano, piano, 2000; Second Vocal Cycle (texts by Vahagn Davtyan, Vahan Teryan, Hovhannis Tumanyan), soprano, piano, 2001
PIANO: Variations on a National Theme, 2000
(Last updated on March 18, 2007)
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