Tigran Hamasyan won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2006, but the music that resonates even deeper for him is centuries removed — and a sound world away — from jazz. In ...

Joel A. Martin, “The Bentley,” returns to Piano by Nature with his six-year project, “Jazzical Komitas — Passion of Fire.” The Connecticut-based pianist, producer, composer and arranger performs two ...

With a live music performance, UCLA’s celebration of Armenian music continues. Acclaimed Armenian jazz pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan will perform a free public concert tomorrow at Schoenberg ...

“I am interested,” says Alan Hovhaness, “only in serenity of the mind.” In his search for it, Composer Hovhaness is traveling around the world, and during the trip—working in railway coaches, ...

"Come with me, my child. Take my hand." A new trailer has been released for an international film titled Songs of Solomon, made by Armenian actor Arman Nshanian. He was initially going to make it as a ...

The rebirth of Armenia after the end of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s has had financial help from the approximately 8 million members of the Armenian Diaspora, 1.4 million of whom live in the ...

Few places capture the complex sweep of human history like Armenia. This small, mountainous nation has witnessed empires rise and fall and endured profound tragedies, all while preserving a resilient ...