JIVAN GASPARYAN TO GIVE CONCERT IN MOSCOW

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
01.06.2009 11:43 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Legendary Armenian duduk player Jivan Gasparyan will
perform in Moscow International Music House together with his grandson.

"This is the first concert little Jivan will play together with
his renowned grandfather," said a representative of RSP-Concert,
the organizer of the event, RIA Novosti reported.

Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948 he became a
soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan
Philarmonic Orchestra. He has won four medals at UNESCO worldwide
competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was
awarded the honorary title People’s Artist of Armenia and in 2002,
he received the WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. A
professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he has instructed
and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance
in duduk.

He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing
Armenian folk music.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress