HALAJYAN
DAVIT
DAVIT
Composer
Member of the Composers Union of Armenia
Born on 07/02/1962 in Yerevan
Graduated from the piano department at the State music college after Romanos Melikyan
1989 – composition department at the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas (YSCK) (prof. Ed. Hovhannisyan)
1991 – post-graduate studies at the YSCK
1991 – studies at the Basel Academy of Music and the Zurich Conservatory
Armenian State Radio as a music editor
Author of “8:30” program
Performs as a composer, choir leader
Professor at the Zurich Conservatory
1983 – Sonata for cello and piano
1984 – String Quartet No. 1
1985 – String Quartet No. 2
1986 – “Mesrop Mashtots” cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra
2001 – Violin Concerto for Violin, Strings and Percussion
2001 – “Shakespeare’s Sonnets” for a cappella choir
2005 – “The Expulsion of Mankind” for choir and duduk
2005 – A.T. Wegner Gesellschaft for cello quartet, by the order of the “Cohaerentia”
2008 – “Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2” for a cappella choir
2008 – “Mashtots’s Hymn” for soprano and string orchestra (by the order of composer A. Knuzel)
CDs:
1992 – Stabat Mater, MEG Recordings, Cambridge, USA
1992 – “O Herr, wenn Du…”, Art & Electronics, Boston, USA
1993 – “Songs Of Love And Death”, Russian Disc, Moscow, Russia
1985-1995 – “Fuggita, Sparita, Scomparsa…”, in “Works from the Swiss Center for Computer Music 1985-95”
1995 – “Mut zum teilen”, Sony Switzerland
2001 – “Music in the shade”, Germany
2005 – “Die Austreibung der Menschheit”, Germany
“Missa de Lumine”, is in the process of release
2011 – The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RA (Gold Medal)
2012 – “Grigor Narekatsi” order
2013 – Movses Khorenatsi meda
2022 – RA Ministry of Education and Culture (Gold Medal)