LAist

As Armenian Music Finds New Listeners, This LA Oud Player Is Keeping Its Traditions Alive

On an early Saturday afternoon in Glendale, musician Andrew Kzirian nimbly plucks the strings of his oud, its shimmering, nostalgic sound filling the air. Through the instrument, Kzirian pays homage ...
Jazz

Levon Eskenian: Giving Voice to the Sacred Lineage of Armenian Music

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 ...
PanARMENIAN.Net

Armenian folk instruments sound on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

EdgeArt Entertainment, Inc. (USA) developed a series of musical applications, imitating sounds of Armenian folk instruments. Artashes Sevada, program developer, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that ...
The New Indian Express

A Search for Roots

CHENNAI: The lilting strains of Armenian instruments Saz and Qamancha echo in the courtyard of the church, and the exhibition banners flutter in gentle breeze. The serenity and understated beauty of ...
Daily Bruin

UCLA lecturer harmonizes Armenian, American cultures through song

Karenn Chutjian Presti began translating nursery rhymes and American folk tunes into Armenian about 6 1/2 years ago, when her first daughter was born. “A lot of people talk about having a baby and ...
The New Indian Express

A Nostalgic Group in Search of Its Roots

CHENNAI: The lilting strains of Armenian instruments Saz and Qamancha echo in the courtyard of the church and exhibition banners flutter in the gentle breeze that the design of the church allows ...