Jun 6, 2022
Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan.
Guests: Anna S. Demerjian and Artyom Manukyan In this episode we talk about Zartonk Academy with Anna and Artyom. Anna is the Development Director of Zartonk Academy and Artyom is a cellist, composer, and rapper who will be teaching at the academy. This year, the...
Jan 26, 2021
Joseph Bohigian is a composer and performer whose cross-cultural experience as an Armenian-American is a defining message in his music. His work explores the expression of exile, cultural reunification, and identity maintenance in diaspora. His music, described as “delightfully accessible and...
Jan 13, 2021
Ep. 143: Eugenia Forteza, opera singer and founder of 360 of Opera.
Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan.
Eugenia Forteza joins the podcast for a second time during the pandemic (recorded on Dec. 21, 2020). In this podcast we talk about Eugenia's busy schedule during the pandemic, what various...
Dec 16, 2020
Ep. 142: Joe Kinzer, ethnographer, archivist, and ethnomusicologist
Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan.
From Joe Kinzer's website:
I am an ethnographer, archivist, and ethnomusicologist specializing in issues of identity and religious expression in Asian musical contexts. I am the Senior Curatorial...
Dec 8, 2020
Ep. 141: David Korevaar, "You can access the world, it's not easy to reach the world..."
Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan.
In this episode Korevaar talks about his studies with Earl Wild and David Diamond, recordings, teachings and much more.
Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous...