Houry Dora Apartian

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Houry Dora Apartian (* 1976 in Aleppo ) is a Syrian jazz singer .

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Apartian grew up in an Armenian family; her father was an evangelistic pastor and classically trained opera singer , her mother a concert pianist . First she studied psychology at the Haigazian University in Beirut and sang in various choirs. As a member of the Nor Yerk Armenian Workshop Band , she recorded seven albums and toured internationally with this group several times until 2005. In Beirut, she began her vocal training at the Ganatchian Music School, which she continued in 1998 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot .

Apartian worked in France with Marc Fosset , the S. Mos Quintet and the Octet Efpity by Franck Sanchez. In 2003 she performed with her own quartet at Michel Petrucciani's funeral service . Then she taught at the Conservatory in Aleppo. She has lived in Switzerland since 2007, where the album Armenian Stories was created in 2008 with the group Hekiat . She has been leading a quintet since 2012, for which she and her husband, the pianist Oliver Friedli , write the pieces. First the album The Day Will Come was created in 2012 ; The album Anticipation followed in 2019 . She also performed with the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and Dominic Eglis Plurism .

Discographic notes

  • Hekiat, Houry Dora Apartian Armenian Stories ( TCB 2008)
  • Anticipation ( Unit Records 2019, with Oliver Friedli, Adrian Pflugshaupt, André Pousaz, Tobias Friedli )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography
  2. ↑ Meeting (Jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Apartian, Houry Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apartian-Friedli, Houry Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo