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Jivan Gasparyan to celebrate his birthday anniversary in Kremlin Concert Hall
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/730358/jivan-gasparyan-to-celebrate-his-birthday-anniversary-in-kremlin-concert-hall.html
15:08, 24 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS. Prominent duduk-player Jivan Gasparyan
will celebrate his 85th birthday anniversary in Moscow's Kremlin
Concert Hall on November 18. Supposedly, renowned chansonnier Charles
Aznavour will also attend the celebration. As reports "Armenpress" at
the course of the press conference held on August 24 Jivan Gasparyan
underlined: `I am not aware yet whether I shall celebrate my jubilee
in Yerevan or not. That's not my job and depends upon their courtesy.
I don't want to ask people to organize a concert for me. I shall not
say 'Give me money to celebrate my birthday', even if they hang me. If
they organize it I shall express my gratitude and feel that they are
engaged in a good job. But I don't compel anyone to do that. I did not
ask anything from anybody even for the erection of my statue."
The duduk-players' monument (Jivan Gasparyan, Levon Madoyan, and Vache
Hovsepyan) will be erected in the Abovyan street of Yerevan. The
project is being realized by sculptor Davit Minasyan.
Jivan Gasparyan was born on October 12, 1928. He is an Armenian
musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind
instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the
"Master of the duduk".
Born in Solak, Armenia to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play
duduk when he was six. In 1948 he became a soloist of the Armenian
Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philarmonic
Orchestra. He has won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions
(1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the
honorary title People's Artist of Armenia and in 2002, he received the
WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. A professor at
the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he has instructed and nurtured
many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk.
He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing
Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as
Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur,Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel,
Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris
Grebenshchikov, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider.
Djivan Gasparyan and Hossein Alizadeh were jointly nominated for a
2007 Grammy Awardfor their 2006 collaboration album Endless Vision (an
album featuring a trilingual arrangement and recording of Sari Galin).
Gasparyan played as part of the Armenian entry "Apricot Stone" by Eva
Rivas at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo and became the
oldest ever person to feature in a Eurovision Song Contest
performance, but was not officially listed as a guest artist.
From: Baghdasarian
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/730358/jivan-gasparyan-to-celebrate-his-birthday-anniversary-in-kremlin-concert-hall.html
15:08, 24 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS. Prominent duduk-player Jivan Gasparyan
will celebrate his 85th birthday anniversary in Moscow's Kremlin
Concert Hall on November 18. Supposedly, renowned chansonnier Charles
Aznavour will also attend the celebration. As reports "Armenpress" at
the course of the press conference held on August 24 Jivan Gasparyan
underlined: `I am not aware yet whether I shall celebrate my jubilee
in Yerevan or not. That's not my job and depends upon their courtesy.
I don't want to ask people to organize a concert for me. I shall not
say 'Give me money to celebrate my birthday', even if they hang me. If
they organize it I shall express my gratitude and feel that they are
engaged in a good job. But I don't compel anyone to do that. I did not
ask anything from anybody even for the erection of my statue."
The duduk-players' monument (Jivan Gasparyan, Levon Madoyan, and Vache
Hovsepyan) will be erected in the Abovyan street of Yerevan. The
project is being realized by sculptor Davit Minasyan.
Jivan Gasparyan was born on October 12, 1928. He is an Armenian
musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind
instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the
"Master of the duduk".
Born in Solak, Armenia to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play
duduk when he was six. In 1948 he became a soloist of the Armenian
Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philarmonic
Orchestra. He has won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions
(1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the
honorary title People's Artist of Armenia and in 2002, he received the
WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. A professor at
the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he has instructed and nurtured
many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk.
He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing
Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as
Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur,Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel,
Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris
Grebenshchikov, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider.
Djivan Gasparyan and Hossein Alizadeh were jointly nominated for a
2007 Grammy Awardfor their 2006 collaboration album Endless Vision (an
album featuring a trilingual arrangement and recording of Sari Galin).
Gasparyan played as part of the Armenian entry "Apricot Stone" by Eva
Rivas at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo and became the
oldest ever person to feature in a Eurovision Song Contest
performance, but was not officially listed as a guest artist.
From: Baghdasarian