G.I.Gurdjieff’s music – No 40 “Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble”/duduk,kamancha …

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The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in 2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian with the aim of creating ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. The ensemble consists of leading Eastern folk instrumentalists in Armenia playing duduk, blul/nay, saz, tar, kiamancha, oud, kanon, santur, dap/daf, tombak and dhol.
Gurdjieff is known to many in the West as one of the major spiritual figures of the 20th century. His extraordinary musical repertoire was based on the music he heard during his journeys in Armenia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many parts of Central Asia, India and North Africa, where he witnessed a myriad of folk and spiritual music, rituals and dance traditions. Levon Eskenian has chosen and arranged those pieces that have roots in Armenian, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Caucasian folk and spiritual music for Eastern folk instruments.
Excerpt from Yerevan concert,Armenia,organized by Naregatsi Art Institute.

Levon Eskenian,artistic director
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan-,duduk
ArmenAyvazyan,Kamancha
Davit Avagyan,tar
Vladimir Papikyan,santur
Aram Nikoghosyan,oud
Mesrop Khalatyan,dap
Meri Vardanyan ,Kanon,

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