Tigran Hamasyan

Tigran Hamasyan was Armenian by descent — he was created in 1987 in Gyumri, Armenia — but had jazz in his spirit. Although he was initially moved as a kid by the rock and roll noises from the giants from the ’60s and ’70s — Deep Crimson, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles — Hamasyan would concentrate his places musically on jazz, getting an adept piano participant within the design as a young child. Moved with the noises of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Artwork Tatum, and Mls Davis, Hamasyan discovered himself area of the festivities on the Yerevan Second International Jazz Celebration in 2000. He’d proceed just a couple years afterwards to win several contests, among which was on the 2003 Montreux Jazz Celebration. With his music group Aratta Rebirth, he released Red Hail in ’09 2009. 2 yrs later he released A Fable (acknowledged merely as Tigran), his debut single time for Verve, offering the musician on piano and vocals, and implemented it with 2013’s acclaimed Darkness Theater, which highlighted a music group, strings, voices, and consumer electronics by Jan Bang. That calendar year he won the Vilcek Award for Creative Guarantee in Modern Music. Hamasyan released Mockroot, an eclectic established that offered primary electro-acoustic compositions and a normal song, for non-esuch in 2015. That same calendar year his ECM debut, Luys we Luso, comprising Armenian sacred music in the fifth towards the 20th hundred years organized for piano and voices, was released. It was documented a year previous together with the Yerevan Condition Chamber Choir executed by Harutyun Topikyan. He came back to electro-acoustic jazz with 2016’s double-length Atmospheres on ECM, within a collaborative time with Arve Henriksen, Bang, and Eivind Aarset. Hamasyan released his second record for Nonesuch, A HISTORICAL Observer, in March 2017, offering ten pieces in the pianist and composer.