Harry Tavitian

Harry Tavitian ( born 1952 in Constanta, Romania as Hari Tavitian ) is a Romanian jazz pianist and composer.

Life and work

Tavitian gave his first concert at the age of ten years. In Brasov and Bucharest, he studied classical piano until the final concert diploma. The encounter with the blues musician Memphis Slim meant that he pianism dealt with the history of jazz in 1976 he founded the Jazz Band Creativ but was, until 1978, in the field of classical active. In 1981, a many years of collaboration with percussionist Corneliu Stroe duo; together they played the album Transilvanian Suite (1985) and Creatinuea (1988 ) a. With Hans Kumpf and Reinhart Hammerschmidt followed in 1988 East - West Creativ Combinations. In 1990, he began working as a duo with Anatoly Vapirov with which he, inter alia, toured Bulgaria, Italy and France. Then he was with Ivo Papasovs Black Sea Orchestra active ( self-titled album in 1998 ) and with his octet Orient Express. He also participated with the Rova Saxophone Quartet, as well as with Hans Kumpf and Jürg Solothurnmann (1995 ) on a concert tour. Even with his own groups, such as his trio or Orient Express, he was in Central Europe on tour; In 2002, he appeared in Nuremberg in Jazz Ost -West. He also worked with Johnny Răducanu, Wolfgang puschnig and Floros Floridis.

Tavitian has been active since the mid-1990s increasingly as an opera composer. In his music elements of Armenian and Romanian music a go.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Horizons (1980-1984)
• There's Always Hope ( 1993)
• Axis Mundi (1999)