Armenian musican Benik Iknatyan playing the duduk(Hrair Hratchian. Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY/4.0/ ) In the 1990s, the duduk found its way into movie soundtracks, radio ...

Do a Google search for Komitas and more than 9,000 entries pop up. The revered Armenian historical figure, who was born in Asia Minor in 1869 as Soghomon Soghomonian, assumed the name Komitas a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the Armenian genocide. By ...

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS. The official opening ceremony of “Komitas” symposium-festival took place at Aram Khachatryan concert hall, supported by the Ministries of Culture, Education and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The warm but mournful sound of the duduk has become a fixture in film and television soundtracks today, ...

Ask someone to name an Armenian composer and the first name on the list is likely to be Aram Khachaturian, famous for his Gayane and Spartacus ballet scores. But for Armenians, their most treasured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ELIZABETHTOWN — Joel A. Martin, “The Bentley,” returns to Piano by Nature with his six-year project, “Jazzical Komitas — Passion ...

If these latter pieces feel akin to those of Bartók’s For Children, the more substantial Seven Dances seem closer to the Hungarian’s peasant-dance realisations in their more exploratory harmonies and ...

Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet Claude Debussy completed his final orchestral work, ...

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 12, ARMENPRESS. The Script of the movie devoted to Archimandrite Komitas with the initiative of «Armenia Production» is already ready. The chief producer of the company, Valeri ...

Paul Lewis delights in Beethoven’s bagatelles. Plus, a reconfigured Media vita and sacred music from Armenia Suffering from Beethoven anniversary fatigue? The British pianist Paul Lewis has the ideal ...