Gevorg Dabaghyan

Gevorg Dabaghjan (Armenian Գեւորգ Դաբաղյան, also: Gevorg Dabagian, Gevorg Dabaghyan, born February 12, 1965 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian Dudukspieler.

Career

Dabaghjan was a student of Khachik Khachatryan and studied until 1989 at the State Conservatory of Yerevan duduk. In 1992 he obtained the Master's degree at the Conservatory at Khachatur Avetisyan and taught there ever since.

In 1990, he won the grand prize in the competition for players traditionaller Eastern National Instruments in Dushanbe, in the following year the Sayat -Nova Competition in Yerevan. 1994 produced the American record company Celestial Harmony an album with him, which received international INDI Prize the following year.

In 2001, he took in Moscow on music project The World's multi- voice part, the folk musical instruments of different countries united and its conclusion he performed with Gidon Kremer. In 2002 he played a concert for duduk and Orchestra of the Iranian Meget Entezami for the Iranian movie Miss Mary.

Dabaghjan applies in the wake of musicians such as Levon Madoian, Margar Margarian, Vache Hovsepian and Khachik Khachatryan as one of the most important Armenian Dudukspieler. He was the first played medieval liturgical music from Armenia to this instrument. He is director of Shoghaken Folk Ensemble and a member of Yo- Yo Ma Silk Road Project, with whom he performed at Carnegie Hall in 2002. The Komitas String Quartet, he recorded the album Lost Songs from Eden. An album with the oud player Rabih Abou -Khalil was born in 2004.

Concert tours have taken him, among others, except in the U.S. to Germany, Finland, France, Poland, Switzerland, Canada, China and the United Arab Emirates. Most recently he undertook in November 2010 with his nephew Gourgen Dabaghyan through Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.