Renowned composer Tigran Mansurian nominated for 2018 Grammys
Renowned Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian’s ‘Requiem’ has been nominated for the 60th Grammy Awards taking place in 2018.
The composition is nominated in two categories – Best Choral Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Panorama.am reports citing the Awards academy’s official website.
Tigran Mansurian’s producer, the founder of ECM Records Manfred Eicher has been nominated for the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical.
Mansurian’s ‘Requiem’ is dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. Co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the RIAS Choir Berlin, the composition is a combination of ancient Armenian religious and secular music with the Latin Requiem text.
To note, the 60th annual Grammy Awards be held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Jan. 28, 2018.