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Jivan Gasparyan to participate in festival in Jerusalem with another 3 dudukists

Jivan Gasparyan to participate in festival in Jerusalem with another 3 dudukists

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Master of the duduk, legendary Jivan Gasparyan together with three other dudukists, Armen Kazaryan, Vazgen Makaryan, and Jivan Gasparyan junior, will participate in Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival. “Armenpress” reports, citing the website of the festival jerusalemseason.com, that the concert of “Jivan Gasparyan quartet” is anticipated on September 3.

The website of the festival illustrates the legend of Jivan Gasparyan as well as his quartet. The jerusalemseason.com also emphasizes that Gasparyan, with an experience of more than 70 years of musical activities, has won countless awards, gave concerts with different musicians all over the world and in many Hollywood films his music can be heard.

Dudukist Jivan Gasparyan was born on October 12, 1928 in the village of Solak. 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 and 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.








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