Arthur Meschian — Architect, Musician, And A Good

He is a famous architect, musician, poet, singer, composer, and painter. Probably, it’s enough to say he is an Armenian.

Arthur Meschian: Life

Meschian was born in 1949 in Yerevan. Throughout his past lifetime, Meschian has been in different countries. By 2005 Meschian was living in the USA for about 17 years. Since then he lives in Yerevan with his wife.

Arthur Meschian: Career

To say Meschian is an Armenian talent is to say nothing because he is a gifted personality in various spheres. He has a walking art. Today I would like to investigate Meschian’s brilliance in different spheres.

Arthur Meschian: Musician And Singer

Since childhood, Meschian was fond of music. At the age of seven, he attended to violin and piano classes at a music school named after Alexander Spendiaryan. He liked it and started to write songs. Soon after that, he joined the boy’s chorus at the National Academic Theatre for Opera And Ballet.

He has also sung at the chorus of St. Echmiadzin. This period has a great influence on his further activity. While he was at school, Meschian wrote some of his highly recognized songs including “Where were you, God?”, “The will”, and “The old man”.

We may say that Arthur Meschian is one of the founders of the Armenian rock genre. In 1967 He founded a rock band together with his 2 friends — Levon and Gregory. Initially, the band wasn’t given any name but some times later it was just called “The Band Of The Department of The Architecture”.

The band was loved by the listeners. It was a new and innovative approach to music and it left a remarkable impression on the audience who were mainly youngsters. Later the band was renamed “The Apostles”.

The Apostles gave concerts in different cities of Armenia including Yerevan, Gyumri, also in Moscow, and Tallinn. The band performed in various republics in the Soviet Union, and yet, stayed loyal to the native Armenian audience. In 1975 while in the Apostles, Meschian was commissioned to write a “requiem” dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the 1980s, The Apostles disappeared from the music arena.

In 1984 Meschian started his own musical path. When he was in Boston, Meschian was singing in churches, theatres, and similar places. He recorded his first album which was called “Catharisis” in 1990. His second album named “The Monologue of The Insane Violinist was released in 1993. The further albums of Meschian are: “Wander” (1995), “Communion” (1996).

Soon he founded a new band called “Apostles 90” with Wayne Johnson, John Leftwich, and Art Rodriguez.

More about the life and career of the gifted Armenian in the source article: Arthur Meschian.

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