Wahagn Hajrapetjan

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Wahagn Hajrapetjan ( Armenian Վահագն Հայրապետյան ; English Vahagn Hayrapetyan ; born August 30, 1968 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Armenian jazz musician ( piano , also singing , composition ).

Live and act

Hajrapetjan comes from a family of musicians; both parents are violinists. Even as a child he was noticed for his creativity and originality. He graduated from the local Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the State Conservatory of his native city. Hajrapetjan then learned from Barry Harris and Frank Hewitt in New York City . Since the 1980s he has led a jazz trio and quartet in Yerevan; In 1998 Arto Tunçboyacıyan brought him to his Armenian Navy Band as keyboard player . In 2004 he founded his own band Katuner , with which he made several albums. In 2010 he released his first solo album Singin and Swingin . Stike up the Band followed with his quartet New York - Yerevan .

Hajrapetjan performs with Russian jazz musicians such as Igor and Oleg Butman , Sergey Golovnya, Yakov Okun , Sergey Vasilyev, Pavel Temofeev and Peter Vostokov. In 2013 he released the duo album Live in Yekaterinburg with the Russian pianist Daniel Kramer . He also played with musicians such as Elvin Jones , Jimmy Lovelace , Leroy Williams , Ari Roland , Zaid Nasser , Jason and Delfeayo Marsalis and many more. He can also be heard on albums with Toufic Farroukh , Sezen Aksu and Géraud Portal .

Hajrapetjan has participated in many international jazz festivals, including the Jazz Jamboree , the New Orleans Jazz Fest du Maurier, the St. Petersburg International Jazz Festival and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal .

Hajrapetjan also composes film music and teaches jazz in Yerevan, Syria , Iran , Lebanon and Jordan . In 2008 he was named "Honored Artist of Armenia".

Discographic notes

  • Love for Sale (with Clarence Johnson III)
  • Trip to New Orleans (2003, with Johnny Vidacovich and Ed Wise)
  • Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Vahagn Hayrapetyan Love Is Not in Your Mind (2005)
  • Bop it Up (with Wendell Brunious, Brice Winston, Bill Huntington and Jason Marsalis)
  • Jivan Gasparyan Jr., Armen Hyusnunts, Vahagn Hayrapetyan, Alex Baboian Aragats: The Arrival (Dreyer-Gaido 2016)

Filmography

  • Bonded Parallels (2009)
  • If Only Everyone (2012, Beijing International Film Festival Award)
  • Shor and Shor Shor
  • Bari Luys (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography
  2. ↑ Vahagn Hayrapetyan (Smalls)
personal data
SURNAME Hajrapetjan, Wahagn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Հայրապետյան, Վահագն (Armenian); Hayrapetyan, Vahagn (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union