Tigran Hamasyan to give new life to Armenian Churches in Turkey in 2015

The Armenian famous jazz musician, pianist Tigran Hamasyan is going to give concerts in Armenian Churches located in different regions of Turkey in 2015. Armenpress reports that the musician stated this in a conversation with “Agos” periodical
published in Istanbul. First he told that he was born in Gyumri where his family had great difficulties. “We bore great difficulties. I was born in 1987. A year later the war broke up. There was an earthquake. The Soviet Union collapsed. Very hard years began. We had no light, no fuel.

My father woke up at 5 and stood in queue for bread… those days formed both my life, and my art,” Tigran Hamasyan told. He noted that his relatives both from his father and mother’s side are from Kars who moved in Gyumri after 1915. Still in his childhood Tigran Hamasyan knew how the members of his family survived the Genocide. Later, his grandparents got acquainted with each other in the orphanage. But they never got news from his grandmother’s brothers who had been sent to the USA.

Speaking about the possible policy impact on the art Hamasyan said: “I do not think it is right to mix policy with art and music. Policy may influence the art , but not inspire it. I think art should be affected from love and just art”.