MITINYAN

ARTHUR

Composer, singer

Member of the Composers Union of Armenia since 2014

Member of the Composers Union of Russia since 1988

Born on 21/06/1962 in Yerevan

BIOGRAPHY

Graduated from the cello department of the Yerevan Romanos Melikyan Music College

1982-1987 – composition department at the Yerevan State Conservatory

1996 – post-graduate studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory

1983-1986 – guiter player in the “Asparez” band (which presented armenian medieval music in a rock style)

1986 – co-founder of “Debut” theater studio

1986 – founder the rock band “Ayas” (wrote all the band’s songs, played keyboard instruments. He is the soloist and producer of the band)

Since 2005 – manager of the “Arm-Records” recording studio

Author of musical theater (rock-ballets, operas), symphonic, chamber, spiritual works, music written for performances

1981 – “Poem” for piano

1984 – Quintet for piano

1984 – Opera “Dream of King Midias”

1986 – Drama “Experiment”

1988 – “Heaven and Earth” suite for rock band

1993 – “Iphigenia in Avos”

1994 – “Sea-San”

1998 – “Song of the Dwarf Mother” for soprano, harmonca and percussion (by K. Mayer)

1999 – “The Funny Man” suite for soprano and bass (by A. Grachov)

2001 – “Woman’s Fate” 17 romances (by A. Mironov)

2001 – “Avarayr” for symphony orchestra

2003 – “Treasury” 18 polyphonic arrangements of songs by Armenian medieval composers for soprano and harmonica

2006 – “Beatles Forever” rock-ballet

2014 – “Me and her” rock-opera

2016 – “Scarlet Sails” opera

18 spiritural songs for soprano and harmonica

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