Topic: Jazz

Experience an extraordinary evening of Armenian jazz with acclaimed musicians Vardan Ovsepian on piano, Emmanuel Hovhannisyan on duduk and blul, Noah Garabedian on bass, and Karen Kocharyan on drums. The quartet will celebrate[...]

Russian-born Armenian flutist Yulia Musayelyan‘s music combines modern jazz harmonies, odd meters, and improvisation with folkloric styles from Armenia, Argentina, and other cultures, seeking to bridge distant traditions. She is[...]

Acclaimed Jazz Pianist & Composer ALEX MINASIAN has established himself as a versatile pianist, educator, and impresario in many different musical genres. Alex has studied with some of the greatest[...]

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — This year’s first public event at the Tekeyan Center took place on Saturday, February 25, featuring trumpeter Michael Sarian, in front of a large, enthusiastic audience.[...]

By Harout Arakelian Special to the Mirror-Spectator “World music is ‘in’ today, and I was at the bottom end of this thing, I was doing this music in the ‘50s![...]

NEW YORK — Michael Sarian is a man with a background as diverse as the music he plays, jazz, and the city he calls home now. Born in Toronto to[...]

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn — At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, music enthusiasts entered the unobtrusive but historically classic Opera House on Berry Street. The beautiful chandeliers, original architecture from 1911[...]

ANTWERP, Belgium — On Sunday, October 2, a new jazz ensemble performed at the Beestenbos café in Antwerp, founded and led by jazz guitarist and composer Alexander Baboian, originally from[...]

ANTWERP, Belgium — “It was a really cool experience to work with him and perform, especially after a hard isolating winter!” That is how Alexander Baboian described a musical event[...]

YEREVAN / TOULOUSE — Jazz pianist Rémi Panossian was born in 1983, in Montpellier, France, to an Armenian father and a French mother and started playing piano at 7. He[...]