Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (Mongolian: Ганбаатарын Ариунбаатар; born April 8, 1988) is a Mongolian baritone. He was born as the middle child in a family of 3 at the west of Ulaanbaatar city, where his family used to live as nomads.[1] He attended the Mongolian State University of Culture and the Arts[1] and graduated in 2010 as an opera singer.[2] He subsequently became a traffic warden in Ulaanbaatar until he joined the Buryat National Opera in Ulan-Ude, Russia, in 2014.[1][2]
Career
He won the first prize in the male vocalist category and the Grand Prix at the 2015
Honors
In 2016, on the occasion of the 854th birth anniversary of Genghis Khan which is marked as the National Pride Day, the top state prize of Mongolia, the Order of Genghis Khan, was awarded to Ganbaatar for his many great awards and achievements on the international stage.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Frazier, Ian (November 16, 2015). "Prize-Winner". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar". Marinsky Theatre. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ a b c BBC Cardiff Singer of the World bio. Accessed 17 July 2017.
- ^ Molleson, Kate (2018-01-02). "How Mongolia went wild for opera". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar awarded Order "Chinggis Khaan", 1 November 2016, Montsame