Tigran Hamasyan

Tigran Hamasyan is a pianist, composer, and keyboardist from Armenia. His compositions are deeply influenced by the scales and modes used in the Armenian folk tradition. Hamasyan is also influenced by jazz and progressive rock. 2011's A Fable, on Verve, strongly reflects Armenian folk music. 2013's Shadow Theater melds jazz and progressive pop with folk. 2015's Mockroot offered new compositions in a similar musical setting. He also released Luys i Luso on ECM that year -- comprising recontextualized sacred music from five centuries in modern piano/voices setting -- to commemor...