Tigran Martikyan @ a jazz piano concert
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Tigran Martikyan will be giving a jazz piano concert - dedicated to the 100 anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. (the program will include music by Komitas, Robert Amirxanyan & more ) Tigran's new released solo piano album entitled "A trip to New York" recorded live at the Armenian Evangelical Church of NY will be available for purchase at the end of the concert! Reception to follow concert!
ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն Hayots Tseghaspanutyun) also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, "Great Crime") was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. The majority of Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
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Organizer Tigran Martikyan
Organizer of Tigran Martikyan @ a jazz piano concert
“Tigran Martikyan is the fastest-rising talent of his generation. He is a pianist to be reckoned with technique, taste, and fresh originality” George Avakian (producer)
After years playing various instruments since the age of six, Tigran today extends his repertory beyond his beloved jazz, composing classical pieces as well as music for motion pictures and choreography. His music has won awards and praises, including from the legendary Chick Korea who calls his music “ intellectual.” In 2001, the New York Post presented Tigran as one of “New York’s most promising young jazz musicians,” while his music was being aired on the “Bet on Jazz” program of the Jazz Discovery Showcase. Martikyan has been featured on Bloomberg Radio in New York, the Armenian radio hour in New Jersey, Voice of Armenian TV in New York as well as various Armenian TV stations in Los Angeles and Armenia. In 2001, Tigran's music aired on “Bet on Jazz” Jazz Discovery showcase several times through out the US Middle east and Asia. His album Why, which was featured in the Regis & Kelly show in 2003, represents the creation of a jazz quartet with Loren Stillman, Daniel Weiss, and Thomas Morgan, culminating in the merging of older international folk traditions with the hyper-eclectic sounds and strains of contemporary New York. Mr. Martikyan has given a number of concerts across the US and Europe, including his world premiere of “Piano Sextet” at Carnegie Hall in 2008, and at Monte Carlo in 2002. Today in Los Angeles, Tigran juggles his time composing, providing private lessons to professionals and recreational beginners, and performing concerts in the US and aboard. He is an adjunct instructor of Music Theory and Music Appreciation courses at the LA Academy of Figurative Art and is the organist/choir director at the New Haven Missionary Baptist Church. Tigran has just completed his solo piano album A Trip to New York, recorded live at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, and is currently working on his new album entitled My Hometown Armenia.
