Gevorg dabaghyan biography books

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  • Born on February 12, 1965, in Yerevan, Armenia, Gevorg Dabaghyan is revered as a virtuoso of the duduk.
  • Awarded the title of Academician of the International Academy of Natural and Social Sciences.

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    Arsen Petrosyan’s Charentsavan: Music for Armenian Duduk

    By Daniel Garrett

    Arsen Petrosyan, Charentsavan: Music for Armenian Duduk
    Produced by Raffi Meneshian
    Pomegranate Music, 2016

    What makes a people?  Is it place, blood, and language?  Is it myth and music and food?  Is it law and ritual?  Arsen Petrosyan’s collection of songs Charentsavan: Music for Armenian Duduk has, inevitably, the sound of the exotic for those of us who know little to nothing of Armenian culture, which originated in Asia Minor or Anatolia—an arid, dry area associated with Turkey, Iran, and Azerbaijan, and dominated by Hittites, the Greeks, the Persians, and the Romans—with the Armenian republic being in what had once been greater Russia, the Soviet Union.  The Armenian language is Indo-European, its alphabet created in the fifth century after Christ.  It is a complicated history, a sometimes contested history, for a people who sometimes call themselves Hay and their nation Hayasdan—Turkey still refu

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    Arsen Petrosyan is a prestigious Armenian duduk player born in Charentsavan in 1994, where he currently still resides. His family originally hails from an Armenian enclave in the Republic of Georgia called Javakhk. His ancestral homeland is in Erzurum (now it modern day Turkey).

    Petrosyan received his Masters Degree in Music (Duduk concentration) from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, where he studied under prestigious duduk maestro Gevorg Dabaghyan. Deemed a musical prodigy, he initially began his studies with mentor Krikor Khachtryan, beginning with the shvi (an Armenian wind instrument) at the age of six.

    At a ung age, Petrosyan became an experienced professional who performed extensively throughout the United States, Russia, Canada, India, Germany, Spain, France, the Republic of Georgia as well as his native Armenia.

    He also formed his own group, the Arsen Petrosyan Trio. Petrosyan has also participated as a member of the Naregatsi Ensemble.

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    Meet the A.G.A Trio


    Exposing a hidden history of the Caucasus mountains, Deniz Mahir Kartal, Mikail Yakut and Arsen Petrosyan have pieced together the joint musical threads of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. Meet up with the A.G.A Trio...



      Music of Armenia

    For thousands of years, there have been many cross-encounters over the mountainous border of Europe and Asia. During peaceful times, people danced hand-in-hand in village squares; during wars and genocide, lamentations were sung from caravans seeking safer lands. A.G.A Trio is formed by three virtuoso musicians who have pieced together tales of self-discovery, heritage, love songs of bards, laments for the fallen, respect for nature and ultimately, the Meeting of peoples across the beautiful Caucasus mountains. A terrain of vibrant poetical beauty, fearsome rebellion, gatherings and farewells, A.G.A Trio presents a polished collecti
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