Recently I was made aware of an awesome art project called Luys i Luso featuring the internationally renowned jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan. For the commemoration of the centennial year of the Armenian Genocide, last year Armenia’s musical prodigy Tigran Hamasyan, along with the Yerevan State Choir embarked on a special journey through music and history. They...
Tigran Hamasyan, the pianist giving jazz an Armenian twist
He’s the hottest pianist in jazz and he likes to mix things up, whether it’s bebop, thrash metal or dubstep. But his heart is in the folk music of his native land. By: John Lewis From: The Guardian, Thursday 24 October 2013 15.59 BST Somewhere, there’s home-movie footage of a three-year-old Tigran Hamasyan at...
