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Middle Eastern Festival: The Music Of Tigran Hamasyan at Berklee Performance Center
Courtesy of Berklee Media Relations | Posted on February 21, 2017
Where
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA
Map
617 747 2261
When
Wed, March 8, 2017
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Tigran Hamasyan
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The Signature Series at Berklee continues with the ninth annual Berklee Middle Eastern Festival, this year featuring the music of Armenian pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan. The event brings together guest artists, community musicians, Berklee students, visual artists, and dancers from all over the world to celebrate the music of the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean.
The Berklee Middle Eastern Fusion Ensemble, directed by festival founder Christiane Karam, associate professor of voice, will perform some of Hamasyan’s most celebrated works spanning his prolific and diverse career. The concert will also include excerpts from his choral album Lyus i Luso, arranged for choir, piano and strings, featuring the Pletenitsa Balkan Choir, also led by Karam; and the Berklee World Strings, led by Grammy Award-winning Berklee professor Eugene Friesen. ...