2019Nominee
Best Performance
Nature
Tigran Hamasyan
Actor
Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]
July 17, 1987
Biography
Tigran Hamasyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Համասյան; born July 17 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and modalities. In addition to this folk influence, Hamasyan is influenced by American jazz traditions and, to some extent, as on his album Red Hail, by progressive rock. His solo album A Fable is most strongly influenced by Armenian folk music. Even in his most overt jazz compositions and renditions of well-known jazz pieces, his improvisations often contain embellishments based on scales from Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian traditions.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2018Nominee
Best Performance
Taniel
2014Nominee
Best Performance
Tigran
Career Highlights
2013Highlight
Best Performance
Tigran Hamasyan - Shadow Theater
2019Highlight
Best Performance
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
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Taniel
They Say Nothing Stays the Same