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ONE-SHEET …Brings a serene sense of dignity and elegance to every measure. (Berkshire Eagle) 20 …But don’t underestimate his ability to swing hard and throw punches. (Phildelphia Weekly) In 25 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle and Far East, ARMEN DONELIAN has performed and recorded since 1975 as a featured solo pianist, bandleader, and with Jazz legends including Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, PaQuito D’Rivera, Mongo Santamaria, David Liebman and Billy Harper. A pianist with a crystalline touch but a penchant for avant gardism (New York Times), Armen Donelian has performed in the Bilsak, Burlington, Caramoor, Cinco de Mayo, Hennessey, Istanbul, Jacksonville, Jazz Jamboree, Jerusalem, Montreal, Nemu-no Sato, Oshanitsky, Ottawa, Pori, Portsmouth, Toronto Harbourfront, Tucson, Veneto and Yerevan Jazz Festivals. A poetic composer (Swing Journal) of 100 works, Armen Donelian has produced 13 critically acclaimed recordings backed by top-shelf New York artists including Eddie Gomez, Billy Hart, NELIAN 20 Bill Stewart, Dick Oatts, Dean Johnson, Marc Mommaas and Tyshawn Sorey. In his 2014 two-CD release Sayat-Nova: Songs Of My Ancestors (Sunnyside), with David Clark and George Schuller, Donelian transforms 18th Century Armenian folk songs into miniature Jazz masterpieces, offering Countless exquisite moments (Downbeat). Armen Donelian is a six-time Jazz Performance Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts for concerts and master classes in New York City, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Specialist in Armenia, Finland, Greece Sweden and Switzerland. A faculty member at New School Jazz (1986-present) and William Paterson University (1993-2017), he has lectured at schools in Athens, Bucharest, Corfu, Copenhagen, Gothenberg, Graz, The Hague, Helsinki, Iasi, Jyväskylä, Lisbon, Malmö, Paris, St. Petersburg, Tblisi, Vienna, Yerevan and Zurich. Armen Donelian authored Training the Ear, a standard two-volume book/CD set, and Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass (all Schott Music). A graduate of Columbia University, Donelian has studied privately with Carl Bamberger (conducting), Ludmila Ulehla (harmonic analysis), Harold Seletsky (Schoenberg theory and counterpoint) and Richie Beirach (jazz piano). ARMEN DO www.armendonelian.com .

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FULL BIO For forty years, pianist/composer and Fulbright Scholar ARMEN DONELIAN has distinguished himself in 25 countries as a performer, recording artist, master class leader and with his published writings. Donelian’s music is a distinctive blend of 20 influences including his Armenian origin, his Classical technique, and his association with some of the biggest names in Jazz. And, according to Metronom Magazine (1986), he achieves this fusion In such a natural way that one can tell it’s a master’s work. “The best time to learn music,” says Davis and John Coltrane. “Folk, Rock, Dixieland, Jazz, Church, Show and Society music – I played pianist Armen Donelian, “is when you’re them all while growing up,” says Donelian. young, while the brain synapses are still open and fresh. I started playing by ear “In college, I made money by accompanying when I was 5 or 6, and started classical theater and dance classes, providing cocktail music piano lessons when I was about 7 at the at a restaurant on campus and playing and Westchester Conservatory of Music. I arranging for an 8-piece Jazz/Rock band. After was lucky to have parents who supported graduation, I had no gigs, no direction, and lived at my musical aspiration.” home for a few months. My ex-girlfriend’s mother told me, ‘Armen, nothing is going to happen unless As a child, Armen absorbed the sound of you make it happen.’ Armenian, Turkish, Greek and Middle Eastern music at social gatherings and “So, after graduating from Columbia University in from records his father played at home.
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View 2012 Program
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Hudson Opera House
Mail :: Inbox: Jazz at the Opera House.....this Sunday 8/12/13 11:32 AM Inbox Open Folder Inbox New Message Folders Search Fetch Mail Mail Dynamic Mail Mobile Mail Filters Calendar Notes Tasks Address Book Options Help Inbox: Jazz at the Opera House.....this Sunday (4 of 20) Mark as: Move Copy This message to Back to Inbox Delete Reply Forward Redirect View Thread Blacklist Whitelist Message Source Save as Print Headers Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:46:40 -0400 [08/08/2013 02:46:40 PM CDT] From: Hudson Opera House <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Jazz at the Opera House.....this Sunday Show this HTML in a new window? Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. The links that caused this warning have the same background color as this message. Jazz at the Opera House Sunday, August 11 3:00 pm, free pre-concert talk 3:30 pm, concert $10, $8 seniors and HOH members Free for students Hudson, NY - On Sunday, August 11, the Hudson Opera House hosts the Hudson Jazzworks' 7th Annual Hudson Jazz Workshop Performance featuring Armen Donelian, Marc Mommas, Sheila Jordan along with the participants of the Hudson Jazz Workshop. There will also be a free "Meet the Artists" symposium before the performance. The Hudson Jazz Workshop was founded in 2007 by co-directors pianist Armen Donelian and saxophonist Marc Mommaas. HJW participants, many of them working professionals, have been attracted from as far away as Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Japan and Norway to study alongside their counterparts from the Manhattan School of Music, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, William Paterson University and other notable American institutions.
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Armen Donelian Marc Mommaas and Jim Mcneely
Contact: Hudson Jazzworks Aug 12-15 4th Annual 2010 Armen Donelian Marc Mommaas and guest Jim McNeely Hudson Jazzworks is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization supported by: 338 Kipp Road Hudson, NY j 518-822-1640 Woodwind Ergonomics | www.tonkooiman.com www.hudsonjazzworks.org | [email protected] 4th Annual Hudson Jazz Workshop j 2010 August 12-15 j We offer the Hudson Jazz Workshop, a weekend immersion in Jazz improvisation and composition inContact: a relaxed yet focused atmosphere conducive to intense study, through individual and group instruction, jam sessions and a faculty/student concert, with two of today's leading practitioners of duo playing, Armen Donelian and Marc Mommaas. Faculty: Armen Donelian - Piano Marc Mommaas - Saxophone Jim McNeely - Special Guest on Sunday August 15. Date: Thursday, August 12 through Sunday August 15, 2010. Cost: $ 585. Armen Donelian Admission: A distinctive musician with generations of teaching experience. Pianist, Fulbright Scholar, The workshop welcomes the following instrumentation: Piano, Reeds, Brass, Strings and Voice. NEA Fellow, Columbia University graduate, student of Michael Pollon, Richie Beirach and Harold All applicants must submit an audition tape and a completed application form postmarked no Seletsky, author and college professor for 22 years. Performed as sideman/soloist/bandleader and later than July 1st, 2010 . Early application is recommended, as enrollment is limited to 10 taught in 23 countries, produced 11 acclaimed albums for several labels featuring 60 compositions participants. Applications are accepted on a first come, first served basis. reflecting diverse influences from his Classically-trained, Armenian-American background and Minimum age is 16 years.
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Full Discography
DISCOGRAPHY George Schuller | drums (2014) Disc 1: Recorded January 2013, Hudson, NY except (*) recorded May 2013, Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT. Disc 2: Recorded January 2013, Firehouse 12 20 Studio, New Haven, CT. All Mixed, mastered July - November 2013, Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT. (CD) Quotes: [★★★1/2] While the 18th-century Armenian troubadour Sayat-Nova may not be a household name in the Western world, he has long been recognized as one of the greatest poets and troubadours to emerge from the Caucasus region. On the two discs that make up Sayat-Nova: Songs Of My Ancestors, the Armenian- American pianist Armen Donelian has prepared a deeply felt—and often strikingly beautiful—tribute to this distant master. Most of Sayat-Nova’s songs survive only as simple melodies, offering considerable scope to the modern RECORDINGS AS LEADER arranger. Donelian - who, in addition to having a long career in jazz, was educated in harmony and Sayat-Nova: Songs Of My counterpoint - has broken his arrangements into two distinct groups: The first disc features solo piano Ancestors versions of nine of Sayat-Nova’s compositions, while (Sunnyside SSC 4018) the second offers four more Sayat-Nova songs (plus 2 CD Set one from Armenian folk musician Khachatur Avetisyan) Disc 1 - Solo Piano performed as a trio with bass and drums. Where Do You Come From, Wandering The solo piano arrangements are, by far, the more Nightingale? (Oosdi Goukas Gharib Blbool?) extraordinary. Although Donelian is respectful of the / I Have Traveled The Whole World Over original melodies, he also appears largely unbound by (Tamam Ashkhar Bdood Eka) Without You, the constraints of any particular musical approach, What Will I Do? (Arantz Kez Eench using the spare frame of Sayat- Nova’s compositions Goneem?) / Surely, You Don't Say That You more as a compass than a map.
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