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- Born: 1929
- Active: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
- Genres: World
- Instrument: Duduk
- Representative Albums: "Apricots from Eden," "I Will Not Be Sad in This World," "Nazani"
| Artist: Djivan Gasparyan |
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| Discography: Djivan Gasparyan |
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| Wikipedia: Djivan Gasparyan |
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Djivan Gasparyan playing at concert in Oktyabrsky concert hall, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 2008.
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| Born | 1928 Solag, Armenia |
| Genre(s) | Armenian folk |
| Occupation(s) | composer, score composer, musician |
| Instrument(s) | duduk |
| Years active | 1948–present |
| Label(s) | SLG Records |
| Associated acts | Derek Sherinian, Hans Zimmer, Peter Gabriel |
| Website | http://www.gasparyanjivan.com/ |
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Djivan Gasparyan (Armenian: Ջիվան Գասպարյան; born 1928) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays duduk, an Armenian double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is widely known as the Master of the duduk. [1] [2] [3]
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Born in Solag, Armenia, 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 Philarmonic 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[4] 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.
He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur, Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel, Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris Grebenshchikov, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider.
Djivan Gasparyan and Hossein Alizadeh were jointly nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for their 2006 collaboration album Endless Vision (an album featuring a trilingual arrangement and recording of Sari Galin).
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