Tigran Hamasyan

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Tigran Hamasyan ( Armenian Տիգրան Համասյան , Tigran Hamasjan * 17th July 1987 in Leninakan ) is an Armenian jazz pianist .

Live and act

Tigran Hamasyan received classical piano lessons as a child and won his first music competitions after his family moved to Yerevan in 1997 . At the international jazz festival in Yerevan in 2000 he met Chick Corea and Stéphane Kochoyan. Through the festival organizer Kochoyan, Hamasyan was given the opportunity to appear at numerous major festivals in France. a. made the acquaintance of Pierre Michelot and Daniel Humair . Winning the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition and releasing his debut album World Passion (2006) finally helped Hamasyan achieve a breakthrough. He has been based in New York City since 2009 . The Québec newspaper Le Devoir selected his album A Fable as one of the five best new jazz releases of 2011. In 2012, Stéphane Galland brought him to his band Lobi . He recorded the soundtrack for Torun Lian's feature film Victoria (2013) with Arve Henriksen , Jan Bang , Erik Honorè and Robert Jürjendal .

Awards

2003: Winner of the competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival
2006: Winner of the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition
2013: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Contemporary Music
2015: Paul Acket Award , North Sea Jazz Festival
2016: ECHO Jazz Awards.

Discographic notes

2006: World Passion
2008: New Era (with François Moutin , Louis Moutin , Vardan Grigoryan)
2009: Red Hail / Aratta Rebirth
2011: A Fable
2013: Shadow Theater (Universal)
2015: Mockroot
2015: Luys i Luso (ECM)
2016: Atmosphères (ECM)
2017: An Ancient Observer ( Nonesuch Records )
2018: For Gyumri (Nonesuch)
2020: The Call Within (Nonesuch)

Lexical entry

Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz , Édition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3

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↑ Chart source: Switzerland
↑ biography on jazzecho.de
↑ Les cinq meilleurs disques jazz en 2011 - L'année Hamasyan. on: ledevoir.com
↑ pianist Tigran Awarded Prize Vilcek (2013) in Jazz Times
↑ Tigran Hamasyan wins ECHO Jazz Award 2016, Armradio, 19 Apr 2016

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Hamasyan, Tigran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Համասյան, Տիգրան (Armenian); Hamasjan, Tigran (Armenian, transcribed)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	17th July 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leninakan

[charts-1] Chart source: Switzerland

[jazzecho-2] raphy on jazzecho.de

[3] Les cinq meilleurs disques jazz en 2011 - L'année Hamasyan. on: ledevoir.com

[4] pianist Tigran Awarded Prize Vilcek (2013) in Jazz Times

[5] Tigran Hamasyan wins ECHO Jazz Award 2016, Armradio, 19 Apr 2016