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PIANIST TIGRAN HAMASYAN RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES FOR JAZZ FESTIVAL
Tert.am
23.09.11
Armenian born young piano virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan and his Tigran
Quintet will return to Los Angeles to perform at the Angel City Jazz
Festival, Asbarez.com reported.
The event returns to the Ford Amphitheatre on Saturday October 1.
Called "Amazing" by no less a jazz piano authority than Herbie Hancock
and regarded as an absolute prodigy of his instrument, Hamasyan is a
recent winner of the world-renowned Thelonious Monk Piano Competition
and the Montreux Jazz Solo Competition.
Hamasyan, who lives in Paris now, combines the Armenian folk melodies
of with the complexities of jazz.
Festival producers Rocco Somazzi and Jeff Gauthier continue to explore
new and provocative avenues of creative jazz at the 4th annual Angel
City Jazz Festival. The theme for the 2011 festival is Global Jam,
with artists representing nine countries at seven events in six venues
throughout Los Angeles. The festival centerpiece production will take
place Saturday October 1 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.
Sited in the historic Cahuenga Pass in the world famous Hollywood
Hills, the Amphitheatre was originally known as the Pilgrimage Theatre
and is one of the oldest performing arts venues in Los Angeles still
in use. The Amphitheater has a rich jazz tradition which included a
regular jazz series in the 1960s and 70s, and an annual Mother's Day
Jazz & Blues Extravaganza.
Tert.am
23.09.11
Armenian born young piano virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan and his Tigran
Quintet will return to Los Angeles to perform at the Angel City Jazz
Festival, Asbarez.com reported.
The event returns to the Ford Amphitheatre on Saturday October 1.
Called "Amazing" by no less a jazz piano authority than Herbie Hancock
and regarded as an absolute prodigy of his instrument, Hamasyan is a
recent winner of the world-renowned Thelonious Monk Piano Competition
and the Montreux Jazz Solo Competition.
Hamasyan, who lives in Paris now, combines the Armenian folk melodies
of with the complexities of jazz.
Festival producers Rocco Somazzi and Jeff Gauthier continue to explore
new and provocative avenues of creative jazz at the 4th annual Angel
City Jazz Festival. The theme for the 2011 festival is Global Jam,
with artists representing nine countries at seven events in six venues
throughout Los Angeles. The festival centerpiece production will take
place Saturday October 1 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.
Sited in the historic Cahuenga Pass in the world famous Hollywood
Hills, the Amphitheatre was originally known as the Pilgrimage Theatre
and is one of the oldest performing arts venues in Los Angeles still
in use. The Amphitheater has a rich jazz tradition which included a
regular jazz series in the 1960s and 70s, and an annual Mother's Day
Jazz & Blues Extravaganza.