Armenia was one of two featured countries at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival last week in Washington D.C., and members of Los Angeles's own strong Armenian community were among those celebrating ...

Tigran Hamasyan reimagined his native homeland of Armenia through a traditional, folk-inspired jazz performance Sunday evening. Fourth-year music and political science student Kishan Patel said he ...

Be it progressive metal bands like Tool and Meshuggah or a 19th-century poet who died at 21, jazz artist Tigran Hamaysan mines all kinds of... A Jazz Pianist Taps Armenian Folk, Metal Riffs And A ...

Armenian folk music has retained its compelling singularity for centuries, through all the tribulations faced by the nation and its people, but TmbaTa Orchestra show that a deep respect for this ...

The Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble will be featured in the first concert of the Armenian Museum of America’s Fall Concert Series, “Armenian Folk and Popular Music,” at 2 p.m. Oct. 30, on the third floor ...

Born 150 years ago, the Armenian priest and pioneering ethnomusicologist Komitas Vardapet singlehandedly forged his people’s vast and ancient musical legacy into a coherent collection, encompassing ...

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 ...

It is not often you come across a musician whose work feels like a bridge—between cultures, centuries, and inner worlds. Levon Eskenian, the Armenian musician and artistic director behind the ...

The provincial hall of Turkey’s Tunceli Province has banned the Armenian folk music ensemble Veradardz (Return) from performing at the 23rd Munzur Culture and Nature Festival in Tunceli, reports ...

Musicians arrive at their signature sounds through all sorts of influences. For jazz pianist Tigran Hamaysan, that collection of sounds comes from far afield — he's a fan of progressive metal bands ...