About this clip:
Pianist Tigran Hamasyan and his ensemble perform his composition “Red, White and Black Worlds” from his project “The Bird of a Thousand Voices” during his concert on March 21, 2025 – part of the 2024-25 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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About this concert:
Jazz’s international reach means that American musicians often find passionate and knowledgeable audiences overseas, but the music has also settled in far-flung lands, leading to exquisite and unexpected hybrids. Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan embodies the way that jazz’s fertilization with traditions unconnected by African diasporic roots can lead to startlingly powerful new forms. He presents his expansive new project, “The Bird of a Thousand Voices,” joined by an outstanding ensemble.

His extraordinary albums document his ever-deepening engagement with Armenian folk music, and “The Bird of a Thousand Voices” takes his artistry to a new plateau. The suite is a reimagining of “Hazaran Blbul,” an ancient Armenian tale concerning a mythical bird whose songs bring harmony to the world.

Winning the Montreux Jazz Festival piano competition at age 16 and the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition at 19, Hamasyan is one of his generation’s most celebrated pianists and a composer with an achingly beautiful body of compositions unlike anything else in contemporary music.

PERSONNEL:
Tigran Hamasyan: piano, vocals, synthesizers
Yessaï Karapetian: electronics, synthesizer
Marc Karapetian: electric bass, vocals
Matt Garstka: drums

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