Tigran Hamasyan

A..may..zing!  Now, Tigran, you are my teacher
……. Herbie Hancock, on stage at Festival Orleans Jazz 
 
A mature and great and rich and deep artist
……. Chick Corea, August 2011
 
He plays piano like a raga, the next Keith Jarrett
…….  Trilok Gurtu, Theatre du Chatelet March 2011
 
Tigran really grabbed me, in this really cool way
…….  Brad Mehldau, NY Times, 2011
 
 

Tigran appearing on the UK's flagship music programme "Later…with Jools Holland" (BBC TV, May 2012). Performing 'Longing' and 'The Spinnersfrom his recent release A FABLE (Universal Classics)

 

 

PRESS – 2012

The Telegraph – Review

 
'A FABLE' AVAILABLE HERE €15 (incl. post/packing) 

Tigran Hamasyan A Fable on Verve Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rain Shadow (Tigran Hamasyan) 1.36
What The Waves Brought (Tigran Hamasyan) 6.32
The Spinners ( G.I. Gurdjieff, T. De Hartmann) 3.00
Illusion (Tigran Hamasyan) 1.31
Samsara (Tigran Hamasyan) 5.36
Longing (Tigran Hamasyan – lyrics from Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan's Quatrians) 5.08
Carnaval (Tigran Hamasyan) 2.47
The Legend Of The Moon (based on the poetry of Gegham Saryan) 5.34
Someday My Prince Will Come (F. Churchill, L. Morey) 3.42
Kakavik (The Little Partridge) (based on an Armenian folk song collected by Komitas) 5.57
A Memory That Became A Dream (Tigran Hamasyan) 2.40
A Fable (Tigran Hamasyan) 5.08
Mother, Where Are You? (Armenian traditional hymn)2.26

 

Price: €15.00

 

 

 

OFFERINGS
 
TIGRAN SOLO PIANO
 
TIGRAN IN DUET
- Trilok Gurtu

 

TIGRAN w/Band
- Trio
- Quartet
- Quintet

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PERFORMANCES 
2012
9   Nov       London Jazz Festival, Wigmore Hall, London, UK
                       www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk
8   Nov       Komedia, Brighton, UK   www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
6   Nov       Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK   www.onfife.com
4   Nov       The North Wall, Oxford, UK   www.thenorthwall.com
3   Nov       Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, UK   www.thegulbenkian.co.uk
2   Nov       Capstone Theatre, Liverpool, UK   www.thecapstonetheatre.com
1   Nov       Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK   www.bandonthewall.org
31 Oct       The Lighthouse, Poole, UK   www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
28 Oct       Cork Jazz Festival, The Everyman, Ireland   www.guinnessjazzfestival.com
27 Oct       Mermaid Theatre, Bray, Ireland   www.mermaidartscentre.ie
26 Oct       Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland  www.belltable.ie

1  May       Later…with Jools Holland, BBC Two Television, London, UK
28 Apr       Printemps de Bourges, France
14 Apr       Cully Jazz Festival, Switzerland (in duet with Trilok Gurtu)

28 Mar       Gilles Peterson BBC Radio 1 broadcast with Hyperdub's LV, UK
1   Mar       St Georges Bristol UK

27 Jan       Jamie Cullum BBC Radio 2 Recording, London UK
26 Jan       Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds UK
25 Jan       The Stables, Milton Keynes UK
24 Jan       NCH John Field Room, Dublin Ireland
23 Jan       Celtic Connections, Glasgow UK


Trilok Gurtu Tigran Hamasyan QEH London

 

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