Jazz in the Grove: Tigran Hamasyan Trio

Tigran Hamasyan’s unparalleled pianism has elevated him to the top tier of jazz and world music expressionism. Winning the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Piano Competition in 2003, at the age of 16, and the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition at the age of 18, Tigran has fascinated audiences worldwide with his groundbreaking fusion of jazz improvisation, rich folk elements from the music of his native Armenia, classical music, and progressive rock. Nowadays, he appears regularly in the most prestigious venues and festivals across the globe, and boasts an impressive discography, which has received such important accolades as the Echo Jazz Award for International Piano Instrumentalist of the Year (2015) and Victoire de la Musique (French Grammy) for World Music Album of the Year. For his concert at the Pharos Arts Foundation’s idyllic outdoor venue, The Olive Grove in Delikipos, Tigran Hamasyan will team up with Marc Karapetian (electric bass) and Arman Mnatsakanyan (drums) to present a programme inspired by his latest album The Call Within – a journey into the artist’s dreamlike inner world, which is as realistic to him as his physical one. A kaleidoscopic tapestry of sound that ventures beyond jazz, The Call Within draws inspiration from Hamasyan’s interest in maps from different eras, along with poetry, Christian and pre-Christian Armenian folk stories and legends, astrology, geometry, ancient design, rock carvings, and cinematography blurring lines between historic reality and the imaginary world.


The Call Within – a journey into the artist’s dreamlike inner world, which is as realistic to him as his physical one. A kaleidoscopic tapestry of sound that ventures beyond jazz, drawing inspiration from Hamasyan’s interest in maps from different eras, along with poetry, Christian and pre-Christian Armenian folk stories and legends, astrology, geometry, ancient design, rock carvings, and cinematography blurring lines between historic reality and the imaginary world.

 

The Call Within – ένα ταξίδι στον ονειρικό εσωτερικό κόσμο του καλλιτέχνη, που για αυτόν είναι τόσο ρεαλιστικός όσο και ο φυσικός του κόσμος. Ένας καλειδοσκοπικός ηχητικός τάπητας που σπάει τα όρια της τζαζ, αντλώντας έμπνευση από την περιέργεια του Hamasyan για χάρτες διαφόρων ιστορικών περιόδων, και τον ενδιαφέρον του για την ποίηση, για τις χριστιανικές και προχριστιανικές ιστορίες και θρύλους της Αρμενίας, την αστρολογία, τη γεωμετρία, τα αρχαία σχέδια, τα βραχώδη γλυπτά, και την τέχνη της κινηματογραφίας – στοιχεία που θολώνουν τις γραμμές μεταξύ της ιστορικής πραγματικότητας και του φανταστικού κόσμου.

 

Tigran Hamasyan
piano
Standard
€30
Concessions & Members
€25
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