It is not often you come across a musician whose work feels like a bridge—between cultures, centuries, and inner worlds. Levon Eskenian, the Armenian musician and artistic director behind the ...

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Few are familiar with the culture and history of Armenia, a small Middle Eastern country surrounded by Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The Armenians have a past which was both successful and ...

The Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra is 100 years old. On the occasion of the anniversary, benefactor Karen Vardanyan has donated to the orchestra 17 new musical instruments produced by the ...

This entrancing evening of Armenian music features Ara Dinkjian, one of the world's top oud (fretless lute) players; duduk (ancient oboe) virtuoso Arsen Petrosyan; and a string quartet from The ...

The internationally acclaimed Gurdjieff Ensemble consists of leading musicians from Armenia playing Armenian and Middle Eastern traditional instruments. The Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to ...