Byambasuren Sharav
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Byambasuren Sharav is a Mongolian composer and pianist.
Sharav learned as a child by his father to play the accordion. As a music teacher at an elementary school, he began to compose children's songs. From 1975 he studied at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory in the Soviet Union. He has since composed over 200 songs and composed for more than twenty major motion pictures, eight concerts for Mongolian folk instruments, and three symphonies, four ballets. He was commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma
for the Silk Road Project
in 2000 and is best known for his track Legend of Herlen. Also of note is his Genghis Khan composition (2003). He was awarded Honored Art Worker of Mongolia in 2002. Two of his compositions featured at the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival in February 2011.
Sharav learned as a child by his father to play the accordion. As a music teacher at an elementary school, he began to compose children's songs. From 1975 he studied at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory in the Soviet Union. He has since composed over 200 songs and composed for more than twenty major motion pictures, eight concerts for Mongolian folk instruments, and three symphonies, four ballets. He was commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...
for the Silk Road Project
Silk Road Project
Silk Road Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas among different cultures along the Silk Road. The...
in 2000 and is best known for his track Legend of Herlen. Also of note is his Genghis Khan composition (2003). He was awarded Honored Art Worker of Mongolia in 2002. Two of his compositions featured at the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival in February 2011.