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Tigran Maytesian (Russian: Тигран Дереникович Майтесян; born November 10, 1970) is an Armenian-born Russian-Belgian classical violinist, Doctor of Arts. He is a soloist and chamber musician, a professor, artistic director of the International Festival des Minimes in Brussels and the International Festival Sint Carolus Borromeuskerk in Antwerpen (Belgium), a scientific researcher and consultant who resides and works in Belgium.

Life and career

Tigran Maytesian was born in Sevan, Armenia. He started his violin classes at the age of five and further pursued an elaborate classic music education: music school, school for music pedagogy, conservatory and postgraduate violin.

When he was nine years old, he made his debute at the chamber orchestra of music school #19 in Yerevan(directed by Gohar Mouradian). Then, he started his music school studies in Yerevan (docent H. Yagubyan) after which, in 1989, he became a student of C. Hakhnazaryan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. From 1992 to 1995, he continued his studies in Tallinn (Estonia) with Yuri Gerets, in the framework of an international exchange program.

During his studies at the Conservatory of Estonia he met Igor S. Bezrodny, one of the foremost violinists and pedagogues of the 20th centrury, who initiated him into the traditions of the Russian violin school of Abram Yampolsky (Bezrodny was a student of the latter). According to Bezrodny the Russian school distinguishes itself, among other aspects, by its focus on technical skills and a relaxed handplay with much sense for the acoustic characteristics of the violin, the capabilities for creating sound, the richness and color of the created sound, and the artistic freedom and self-development of the student.

From 1995 till 1998 Tigran was assistant internship supervisor for the Moscow Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky.

During his studies, from 1987 till 1998 Tigran was a concert master (first violin) in the instrumental ensemble of the Radio and Television of Armenia conducted by Gevorg Adzhemian. From 1993 onwards he performs regularly in Scandinavia, on invitation by the Estonian Radio ″Fourth Station″ and the Conservatory of Estonia (now Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and subsequently in Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Israel, and several West-European countries (Finland, Estonia, Luxemburg, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, France). He performs with a violin from the 17th century Italian master Nicola Amati.

Since 2000 he lives in Belgium. From 2001 till 2006 he was the first violin at the National Chamber Orchestra of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Throughout his career, Tigran Maytesian collaborated with such prominent conductors as Gevorg Adzhemian (Armenia), Yuri Alperten (Estonia), Alexander Yakupov, Andrey Krouzhkov, Igor Lerman, Andrey Karapishchenko (Russia), Vyacheslav Prilepin, Alexander Sosnovsky (Belarus), Jeannot Vaymerskirch (Luxemburg) as well as with pianists Elisabeth Ginsburg (Moscow, Russia), Irina Tsys, Konstantin Zenkin, Andrey Krouzhkov (Moscow, Russia), Marrit Gerets (Estonia), Luba Harutyunyan (Belgium), Luc De Vos (Belgium), Ruben Chakhmakhchyan (Armenia), and Joseph Ermin (Ukraine). Since 2003 Tigran has been actively performing with Chamber orchestra conducted by Ulysse Waterlot(Belgium). Daniel Blumenthal (Belgium) is one of the pianists accompanying him on a regular basis.

In 2008 Tigran Maytesian started his career as a Professor at the Lemmens Institute (Lemmensinstituut - Conservatory of the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium). Since 2009 he is Professor of two classes: solo violin and chamber music. In that capacity he has successfully prepared several students for international solo violin and chamber music competitions.

In 2011 Tigran Maytesian became Professor at the Medical School (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology), Catholic University Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium, where he actively participates in scientific research together with his colleague Professor Marc Van Hulle on the ″Mind Speller″ project (http://simone.neuro.kuleuven.be). One important aspect of this project is to research the connection between music and emotions by means of electro-encephalography (EEG) where the ultimate aim is to develop an ″affective brain computer interface″ with which patients suffering from language disorders, due to neurological diseases such aphasia, autism, and dementia, can express their emotions via EEG without using facial expressions, gestures or other forms of muscular activity. Professor Maytesian has successfully promoted this project at universities in Belarus, Armenia and Russia (Moscow).

As of 2011 he conducts the ″Mind Speller″ chamber orchestra founded by him.

In 2012 he became artistic director of the festival ″Midi of the Minimes Church″ in Brussels (Belgium) upon invitation by Abbé Jacques Van der Biest, honorary citizen of the city of Brussels, and by Prince Amaury de Merode, President of the ″Centre d’Oeuvres de Merode″ (Brussels, Belgium). In 2013 he continued and expanded this initiative to also include a festival at the Saint Paul church in Antwerp (Belgium).

Since 2013 Tigran Maytesian is a scientific advisor for Scientific and Creative interdisciplinary research center of musical creativity of the Moscow Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky.

Honours

Tigran Maytesian is honorary doctor of the International Academy for Natural and Social Sciences and is member of its Arts department, honorary member of the Ararat Internatonal Academy of Sciences (Paris, France), and regular member of the Europäische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften(Hannover, Germany).

Klassiek Centraal nominated the performance of Tigran Maytesian with ″Russian Camerata″, the Chamber Orchestra of Tver Philharmonics, under the direction of Andrey Krouzhkov, on February 2014 as the Best Concert of the year and awarded them the Goulden Label prize.

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