Ariunbaatar is a
graduate of the Mongolian State University of Culture and Art. In 2011,
Ariunbaatar won the 24th Glinka International Vocal Contest in Moscow
with a prize as best baritone in the competition and the special Pavel
Lisitsian Prize. In 2011, Ariunbaatar became the honored artist of
Mongolia which was given by the President of Mongolia. In 2014, he won
first prize in the 3rd Muslim Magomaev International Vocalists
Competition in Moscow. Since then he’s been a soloist for the Buryat
State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Ulan-Ude, Russia. In 2015,
Ariunbaatar won the 1st prize (Gold Medal) and the Grand Prix at the XV
International Tchaikovsky Competition. And also in 2015, right after
the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Ariunbaatar was invited
to perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2015,
Ariunbaatar performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia and at
the Cadogan Hall in London, United Kingdom and the same year, he
performed Yeletsky’s Aria from Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades at
Buckingham Palace. In 2016, he
performed the role of Escamillo (Carmen) and Baron Scarpia (Tosca) at
the Marinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Ariunbaatar also
performed in Yerevan, Armenia for the 60th General Assembly of the
World Federation of International Music Competitions.
Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (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. He attended the Mongolian State University of
Culture and the Arts and graduated in 2010 as an opera singer. He
subsequently became a traffic warden in Ulaanbaatar until he joined the
Buryat National Opera in Ulan-Ude, Russia, in 2014.
Career
He won the first prize in the male vocalist category and the Grand Prix
at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2015, Ariunbaatar
performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and at the Cadogan Hall in
London, and he sang Yeletsky's Aria from Tchaikovsky's The Queen of
Spades at Buckingham Palace. During 2016, he performed the roles of
Escamillo (Carmen) and Baron Scarpia (Tosca) at the Mariinsky Theatre
in Saint Petersburg. He also performed for the 60th General Assembly of
the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Yerevan,
Armenia. He was jointly awarded the Song Prize award at the 2017 BBC
Cardiff Singer of the World competition, singing Rossini, Verdi, and
Tchaikovsky, and in Mongolian.
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
