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David Vazgenovich Mnatsakanyan (Russian: Дави́д Вазге́нович Мнацаканя́н; Armenian: Դավիթ Մնացականյան; born 31 October 1949; Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian diplomat and composer. He has the diplomatic rank of an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Second Class.

Personal details

Born: 31 October 1949; Yerevan, Armenian SSR

Profession: diplomat, composer. 2005−2011 – Consul-General of the Russian Federation in Gothenburg (Sweden). А member of the International Project "Musicians for Peace" (Moscow, Geneva). Member of the Creative Community "Maestro" (St. Petersburg).

Father: Mnatsakanyan Vazgen Saakovich, Armenian statesman and party official (1911-1978)

Mother: Karmir-Marukyan Meline Vaganovna (1912-1995), singer, Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR.

Children: Mnatsakanyan Kristina

Awards: Honored Worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. International Order "For Effective Partnership between Russia and Sweden". Medal " Coat of Arms of the House of the Lazarevs". Мedal of the International Arno Babajanyan Memorial Foundation. Record-holder of the Russian Book of Records

Biography

He graduated from the specialized music school at the Yerevan Conservatory, majoring in violin and worked in the Symphony Orchestra of the State TV and Radio of Armenia.

Since childhood, David Mnatsakanyan was surrounded by music, for which he is grateful to his mother. Meline Vaganovna Mnatsakanyan, Honored Artist of Armenia, singer, soloist at the State Academic Capella, taught at the Music College and at the Yerevan Conservatory. She passed on her love for music to her three sons, the youngest of whom, David, graduated from the V. Tchaikovsky at the Yerevan Conservatory.

During the years of David's youth, the Armenian musical culture flourished, especially symphonic music, opera and ballet. He could enjoy live the skill and talent of many Armenian singers and performers, who later became a legend not only in his native Armenia, but also far beyond its borders.

David Mnatsakanyan began his career as a violinist of the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television of the Armenian SSR. At that time, the legendary Ohan Duryan was at the conductor's stand. The program included many masterpieces of symphonic music. As part of the orchestra, David played the most complex musical compositions of classical art: Beethoven's 9th symphony, three requiems - Berlioz, Mozart, Verdi.

The philosophical nature of the compositions made the young musician think about the essence of human existence, about the deep moral and philosophical problems of his existence, about good and evil. Then in the life of the young violinist there were Berlin, Bonn, New Delhi, Mumbai (India), Vienna, Stockholm, Gothenburg. However, this is no longer a list of music venues, world-famous concert halls, but places of the diplomatic service. The concert tailcoat was replaced by a no less strict protocol form with gilded sewing and buttonholes.

In 1974 he graduated with high honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Speaks Russian, Armenian, English and German.

Diplomatic Service

Since 1974 he has worked in various positions in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad: in Berlin, Vienna and Bonn.

1999-2001 - Senior Consul to the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Bombay (Mumbai).

2001-2004 - Senior Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in India (New Delhi).

2004-2005 - Deputy Director of the First CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

2005−2011 – Consul-General of the Russian Federation in Gothenburg (Sweden). During these years he was a member of the Royal Bachelor's Club of Sweden.

He has awards in the diplomatic service. In 2019 (the year of his 70th birthday), he was also awarded the medal of the International Arno Babajanyan Memorial Foundation and the "Coat of Arms of the House of the Lazarevs " medal. Both medals were awarded to him for his contribution to the development of Russian-Armenian cultural relations.

Music

Since 2008 he began to write musical compositions. He is the author of the compositions "My Way", "Ulrika", "Spring", "Christmas Fantasy".

During his diplomatic service in Gothenburg, David Mnatsakanyan periodically, according to his mood, played the piano at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation.

David Mnatsakanyan intuitively named his first composition “My Way”. Music lives in every person, everyone goes to music in their own way. Probably, it was "his way", which is now leading him to his homeland, to Armenia.

The composition very quickly gained popularity and was often sounded at ambassadorial receptions at the request of the audience, and the Swedish performers present it with pleasure.

David Mnatsakanyan's composing talent was heard, of course, in Russia. At the concert of the Art Union "Maestro" "My Way" was first performed in March 2008 in the White Hall of the Great Peterhof Palace. It was performed by the symphony orchestra under the direction of P. Oparovsky.

Sometime later, Mnatsakanyan became a member of the Art Union "Maestro". Audience applause at concerts of the ensemble of virtuosos "Maestro" in St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg is the best confirmation that "My Way" is a real composer's success of David Mnatsakanyan.

"My Way" entered the repertoire of not only "Maestro", but also other musical groups. Thus, in April 2008, in the Great Hall of the Stockholm Academy of Music in Sweden, the composition was performed by the chamber orchestra of the Kaliningrad State Philharmonic under the direction of Honored Artist of Russia A. Andreev. And on October 10, 2009, "My Way" was performed by the St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor was Christopher Walander, Sweden) at the charity concert "Hit Parade of Opera Music", held as part of the annual worldwide campaign in support of hospices and providing palliative care.

David Mnatsakanyan’s composition "Christmas Fantasy" was first heard in the same hall of the Consulate General, where his career as a composer began. At that time, “Virtuosi from St. Petersburg” toured Sweden. Mnatsakanyan played this composition to them, and they arranged it there in one night. Next day "Christmas Fantasy" was performed in the German church of Gothenburg and was very warmly received by the audience.

His music has been performed at the World and European Figure Skating Championships in Gothenburg, Helsinki, Prague, Paris, Turin, Tokyo, Lake Placid, and in 2010 at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Figure skater Adrian Schultheiss from Sweden, the country where D. Mnatsakanyan served as Consul-General of the Russian Federation at that time, performed his program to this music.

Both compositions ("My Way" and "Christmas Fantasy") became the hallmark of the Swedish figure skater Adrian Schultheiss, who chose her for his free program at the 2008 World Championships in Gothenburg. "My Way" has been performed in Tokyo, Turin, Lake Placid - wherever the talented Swedish figure skater has performed. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Swedish figure skating champion is already arranging the choreography of his short and free program around the pieces by the Armenian composer, orchestrated by a young Swedish musician, chief conductor of the St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra Christopher Wallander.

These compositions were included in his repertoire by the legendary Swedish pianist Robert Wells, whose popularity in the country is almost close to that of the King of Sweden.

For the Russian audience, "My Way" was performed in Moscow at a joint concert of Robert Wells with Dmitry Malikov. The piece was performed after Aram Khachaturian's "Saber Dance".

This was followed by new creative successes of David Mnatsakanyan - "Spring" ("Spring") and "Ulrika", written in Karlovy Vary. It was named in honor of the young lover of Wolfgang Goethe, who often came to this resort.

The outstanding pianist of our time, Alexander Gindin, not only included the compositions of David Mnatsakanyan in his concert program along with the classical piano pieces, but also recommended that he turn to the talented contemporary composer Alexei Kurbatov. The result of the creative union was a full-scale piano concert by Alexei Kurbatov on themes by David Mnatsakanyan. Its premiere took place at the closing of the classical music season at the Moscow International House of Music. The performance of the Piano Concerto by Alexander Gindin, accompanied by the orchestra under the baton of the assistant chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Adris Pog, was a triumph. In gratitude, both composers presented their creation to its first performer, Alexander Gindin. David Mnatsakanyan is the co-author of Alexey Kurbatov's Piano Concerto with Orchestra #2, Op. 27.

The depth of the lyricism of the compositions was highly appreciated by such masters of the musical world as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vasily Sinaisky, Vladimir Yurovsky, Alexander Vedernikov and others.

The compositions of David Mnatsakanyan were performed by leading musical groups such as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Philharmonic", the Academic Symphony Orchestra named after D. D. Shostakovich, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia, Symphony Orchestra of the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after A. Spendiaryan, Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Kaliningrad Chamber Orchestra of the State Philharmonic Society named after E. F. Svetlanova.

The composer's works were included in the repertoire of world-famous musicians - Alexander Gindin (Russia), Robert Wells (Sweden), Nikita Mndoyants (Moscow), Alexey Kurbatov (Moscow), Andrey Baranenko (St. Petersburg), Sona Arshakyan (Moscow), duduk player Norayr Barseghyan (Moscow).

In the anniversary year of the composer, author's evenings dedicated to the 10th anniversary of his career were held in Moscow, Yerevan and Minsk.

On October 31, 2009, on the day of David Mnatsakanyan's 60th birthday, at a concert in the German Church of Gothenburg performed by the composer and virtuoso soloists "Maestro", laureates of international competitions Alexander Satsenko and Andrey Baranenko, "Christmas fantasy" and "My way" were again performed.

In 2019, he was listed in the Russian Book of Records. Record: "The greatest age of the diplomat-author of a musical composition performed during an athlete's performance at the World Figure Skating Championships. Result: 58 years 71 days".

Composer and diplomat David Mnatsakanyan does not often visit his historical homeland. On September 10, 2019, at the "House of Moscow" in Yerevan, his creative evening was held, timed to coincide with the celebrations in honor of the 872nd anniversary of the city of Moscow, which are also celebrated in the capital of Armenia.

The host of the evening was the laureate of international competitions, pianist Sona Arshakyan, who performed a number of famous compositions of the hero of the occasion. Mnatsakanyan was especially pleased with the opportunity to speak directly in Yerevan, where he was born, lived and received his education.

Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Armenia Pavel Kurochkin, speaking at the evening, noted that the history of Russian diplomacy knows many figures who have also successfully shown themselves in creativity. David Mnatsakanyan skillfully combined the diplomatic path and musician’s career.

As part of the creative evening, a film by director David Isahakyan was presented, which tells about the path of Mnatsakanyan's formation as a diplomat and a composer. Also performed were musical pieces that brought him fame - "Ulrika", "Christmas Fantasy", "Spring", "My Way", "Elegy" and others.

References

1.   Дмитрий Николаевич Киршин - статья «Путь маэстро Мнацаканяна». www.kirshin.ru. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

2.   David Mnacakanyan - My Way. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

3.   David Mnacakanyan - My Way (Kristofer Wahlander) (2016). Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

4.   David Mnatsakanyan. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

5.   David Mnatsakanyan - Ulrika. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

6.   Piano Concerto №2. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

7.   David Mnatsakanyan - Spring. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

8.   Давид Мнацаканян. natalia-65.livejournal.com. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

9.   David Mnatsakanyan - Christmas Fantasy. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

10.David Mnatsakanyan - Christmas Fantasy. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

11.Передача David Mnatsakanyan - 'Christmas Fantazy' (Robert Wells). Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

12."Русская филармония" завершит сезон Листом и Чайковским в Москве. РИА Новости (20130617T1640+0400). Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

13.Aleksey Kurbatov - Piano Concerto №2. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

14.World Figure Skating Championships 2010 Italy. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

15.World Figure Skating Championships Gala (2008) Sweden. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

16.Давид Мнацаканян. Дудук. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

17.Дипломат и композитор Давид Мнацаканян: международная дружба. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.

18.Наибольший возраст дипломата - автора музыкальной композиции, исполненной во время выступления спортсмена на Чемпионате мира по фигурному катанию | Книга рекордов России. knigarekordovrossii.ru. Дата обращения: 22.12.2021.