Genres Armenian folk Role Musician · jivanduduk.com Name Djivan Gasparyan | Years active 1948–present Instruments duduk | |
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Born October 12, 1928 (age 95) Solak, Armenia ( 1928-10-12 ) Occupation(s) composer, score composer, musician Associated acts Derek Sherinian, Hans Zimmer, Peter Gabriel, Roman Miroshnichenko, Hossein Alizadeh Education Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan Record labels All Saints Records, Real World Records Albums Armenian Duduk, Endless Vision, Heavenly Duduk, Apricots From Eden, Armenian Fantasies | ||
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Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; Armenian: Ջիվան Գասպարյան, [dʒiˈvɑn ɡɑspɑɾˈjɑn]; born October 12, 1928) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the "Master of the duduk".
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Biography
Born in Solak, Armenia to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948, he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the honorary title People's Artist of Armenia. In 2002, he received the WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award.
A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he has instructed and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk.
In 1998 he released an album with a unique duduk quartet he formed. Creating arrangements for 4 musicians with "new duduk tones, alto and bass, was an extremely difficult task" and challenge, but the quartet did become a reality performing and "there is no other like it in the world", he witnessed in the lines notes of Nazeli.
He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing Armenian folk music. His music has been chosen on the soundtrack of several international films.
He has collaborated with many artists, such as Sting, Peter Gabriel, Hossein Alizadeh, Erkan Ogur, Michael Brook, Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris Grebenshchikov, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider.
He also recorded with the Kronos quartet and the Los angeles Philharmonic.
Gasparyan played as part of the Armenian entry "Apricot Stone" by Eva Rivas at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo and became the oldest ever person to feature in a Eurovision Song Contest performance, but was not officially listed as a guest artist.
Discography
Collaborations as guest artist
Selection of film soundtrack contributions