Music from Armenia by: Nara Noïan | Erevan Armenian Music Ensemble | Charles Aznavour. Producer: Cobie Ivens
1 – N a r a N o ï a n
Born in January 1971 in Yerevan, she studied piano and accompaniment from the age of 14 at the High Academy of Music and drama interpretation at the High Academy of Dramatic Art in Yerevan. Nara Noïan had a strong position in music, as she taught at the Académie Jardin de Musique in Courbevoie, France from 1991 to 1993, and then became director and teacher at the music school Monde musical Anna Pavlona in Maison-Alfort in 1994. In 1998, Nara left for Belgium. She was first director and teacher at Le Monde de la découverte, an artistic center in Brussels.
CD. Cristal – Nara Noïan. LABEL: AMG (2008), code: 138. VIDEO
2 – E r e v a n A r m e n i a n M u s i c E n s e m b l e
The Erevan Ensemble, a quintet of clarinet, goblet drum, bouzouki, electric guitar, and oud lute, illustrates a view of the transnational dynamics that have played such a significant role in the history of music over the past hundred years. Here we have a group of men, several of whom are simultaneously church deacons, music teachers, and ex-rockers—that is, general pillars of the community—raised in Michigan as third-generation descendants of immigrants from Western Armenia. Their music, in the kef (party) style, now represents an Armenian-American tradition characteristic mainly of the early twentieth century and now seemingly under threat from new, synthesizer-driven dance groups.
CD. My heart for you – Erevan Armenian Music Ensemble.
LABEL: Global Village (2002), code: CD 818
3 – C h a r l e s A z n a v o u r
He recorded the song La Bohème in 1965 and, according to himself, it is about a painter who remembers his young life. His artistic years in which he was hungry, but happy. He was born in Paris in 1924 as Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian, a son of Armenian immigrants. At a young age he entered the world of film, theatre and nightclubs, where he soon gained some recognition as a songwriter. Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf sang his works and encouraged the young man to start singing himself. The tide only turned in the late fifties. He then appeared in films and on stage alongside Frank Sinatra, among others. Charles died in 2018.
CD. La bohème – Charles Aznavour. LABEL: Capitol Records (1995), code: 00724383496853 + EMI 834968 2. VIDEO
Producer Cobie Ivens
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