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CHIEF "CAT" OF YEREVAN CONSIDERS JAZZ TO BE HIS LOVE
09:53, 5 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. Honorary Artist of the Republic of
Armenia, founder of "Cats" ethno-jazz band Vahagn Hayrapetyan is one
of the most brilliant representatives of the Armenian jazz music, who
does not cease realization of new "jazz"ideas. His each appearance
on the stage is a new feast for the audience. Joint simpho-jazz
concert program of "New-York ~V Yerevan" jazz quartet and State Youth
Orchestra of Armenia, which was held in Aram Khachaturyan Concert
Hall on November 3, is to prove this thesis. Hayrapetyan is a man,
who sees his life directly connected with jazz, and life in turn is
connected with love. "Armenpress" had a conversation with the jazzman
about his creative activity and future programs.
- You have just returned from Georgia. What concert program did You
introduce to the Georgian audience?
- My appearance in Georgia was quite accidental, although according
to a famous saying nothing is accidental in this life. "New-York ~V
Yerevan" jazz quartet, which I hosted recently, gives concerts in
various countries. In frames of the "Future of Jazz" and "Ambassadors
of Jazz" programs of the US Government some of those musicians give
concerts in various countries of the world. They just called me and
I left for Georgia with them. We organized master classes for kinds
in the musical schools. We gave a number of concerts there, besides
the concerts with beginners.
- Prominent Armenian jazzman Levon Malkhasyan characterized jazz as
momentary and unrepeatable state of mind. What's Your characterization?
- For me jazz is a mean of expressing myself. It's a unique way
of expressing my essence, my nature, my inner world, my emotions~E
This is a kind of art, which one can never repeat exactly the way,
it was played first. To my opinion it is a collective art, when you
introduce a story with several other persons as one wholeness.
The interview by Tatevik Grigoryan
Photos by Felix Arustamyan
09:53, 5 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. Honorary Artist of the Republic of
Armenia, founder of "Cats" ethno-jazz band Vahagn Hayrapetyan is one
of the most brilliant representatives of the Armenian jazz music, who
does not cease realization of new "jazz"ideas. His each appearance
on the stage is a new feast for the audience. Joint simpho-jazz
concert program of "New-York ~V Yerevan" jazz quartet and State Youth
Orchestra of Armenia, which was held in Aram Khachaturyan Concert
Hall on November 3, is to prove this thesis. Hayrapetyan is a man,
who sees his life directly connected with jazz, and life in turn is
connected with love. "Armenpress" had a conversation with the jazzman
about his creative activity and future programs.
- You have just returned from Georgia. What concert program did You
introduce to the Georgian audience?
- My appearance in Georgia was quite accidental, although according
to a famous saying nothing is accidental in this life. "New-York ~V
Yerevan" jazz quartet, which I hosted recently, gives concerts in
various countries. In frames of the "Future of Jazz" and "Ambassadors
of Jazz" programs of the US Government some of those musicians give
concerts in various countries of the world. They just called me and
I left for Georgia with them. We organized master classes for kinds
in the musical schools. We gave a number of concerts there, besides
the concerts with beginners.
- Prominent Armenian jazzman Levon Malkhasyan characterized jazz as
momentary and unrepeatable state of mind. What's Your characterization?
- For me jazz is a mean of expressing myself. It's a unique way
of expressing my essence, my nature, my inner world, my emotions~E
This is a kind of art, which one can never repeat exactly the way,
it was played first. To my opinion it is a collective art, when you
introduce a story with several other persons as one wholeness.
The interview by Tatevik Grigoryan
Photos by Felix Arustamyan