Geworg Dabaghjan

Gevorg Dabaghyan ( Armenian Գեւորգ Դաբաղյան ; also: Gevorg Dabagian , Gevorg Dabaghyan , * 12. February 1965 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian duduk player.

Career

Dabaghjan was a student of Khachik Khachatryan and studied at the State Conservatory of Yerevan Duduk until 1989. In 1992 he obtained his Masters degree with Khachatur Avetisyan at the Conservatory and has been teaching there ever since.

In 1990 he won the Grand Prize in the competition for players of traditional Eastern national instruments in Dushanbe, and in the following year the Sayat Nova competition in Yerevan. In 1994 the American record company Celestial Harmonie produced an album with him that received the international INDI award the following year .

In 2001 he took part in the music project The World's Multi-Voice in Moscow , which combined folk musical instruments from different countries and at the end of which he performed with Gidon Kremer . In 2002 he recorded the concert for duduk and orchestra by the Iranian Majid Entezami for the Iranian film Miss Maria .

Dabaghjan is considered one of the most important Armenian duduk players in the wake of musicians such as Levon Madojan , Margar Margarian , Vatche Hovsepian and Khachik Khachatryan. He was the first to play medieval liturgical music from Armenia on this instrument. He is the director of the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble and a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Project , with which he performed at Carnegie Hall in 2002 . With the Komitas String Quartet he recorded the album Lost Songs from Eden . An album with oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil was made in 2004.

Concert tours have taken him to the USA a. a. to Germany, Finland, France, Poland, Switzerland, Canada, China and the United Arab Emirates. His last trip was in November 2010 with his nephew Gurgen Dabaghyan through Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

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