French pianist Godefroi Bernier (born in 1992) is deeply attached to Armenia and Armenian music. A graduate of the Lille ...

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 ...

Hamazkayin of Rhode Island is pleased to announce ‘A Tribute to Komitas,’ an evening honoring the enduring legacy of Komitas ...

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 ...

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, ...

Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas Vardapet Komitas (1869-1935) is a musicologist and composer who was one of the pioneers in the world to invent folk music as phenomenon. His activity ...

This recording originated in Kirill Gerstein’s pandemic study of Debussy’s Études, but it’s also grounded in his recognition that we are ‘surrounded by war and genocide’. He’s thus chosen to ...

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS: “Komitas Vardapet” exhibition dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the great composer opened today at Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts - Matenadaran.

When Armenian arranger and composer Levon Eskenian took on to reimagine the music of Armenian mystic and philosopher Gurdjieff for the Gurdjieff Ensemble's debut record on ECM, he touched upon the ...

British writer Toby Litt travels to Armenia in search of Komitas, an orphan whose musical talent turned him into the voice of his country. Six decades after his death in 1935, his music and the vast ...

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 ...