ARTIST PRESENTATION – IGOR SHAGINYAN, composer/writer/teacher/conductor
Artist name: Vicente Montezuma III
Born: Tbilisi, Georgia
Musician:
-pianist/keyboard player, conductor, band leader, percussionist
-piano technician ( piano tuning, repair )
-academy graduate of Tbilisi State Conservatoire – Bachelor’s Diploma ( Orchestral Winds and Percussion ) – Orchestra Artist, Teacher
Main musical style: classical gothic
Main target: Movie Soundtrack / Music Film production and Lessons teaching: Technique of “Exercises of fast piano playing”
Me Vicente Montezuma III (Igor Shaginyan), I was born on September 10, 1981, in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia in the family of a musician and doctor.
At the age of eight, I was enrolled in musical school on the piano section and graduated with the honors degree.
After the high school I went to Academy, to the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and during the fourth year of study and after the graduation, I have created an ensemble with students. We performed my musical compositions and played from music scores that I made myself. Ensemble began to have performances in conservatories.
From 2008 I have started to make live video recordings for my compositions, and in the recent years, I have earned top places several times on different online competitions. For example:
With composition “Ishtar Gates”, me and my team, earned the first place on one of the Composers’ Competitions in the USA, in 2009: http://ourstage.com/profile/anunnaki
With compositions “Ishtar Gates” and “Machu Picchu”, I reached the semifinal in 2016, Nashville, USA, on https://songwritingcompetition.com/