20 08 2008 - NEA Folk Arts Heritage Award Winners

Announcment: GRAND PERFORMANCES - PRESENTS
RICHARD HAGOPIAN & ZAKIR HUSSAIN
Come and enjoy the music of the oud, dumbeg and kanoun with NEA Folk Arts Heritage Award Winner and master musician RICHARD HAGOPIAN

Performing Live at California Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 3 PM

Richard Hagopian was born to Armenian parents in the small town of Fowler in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He demonstrated his musical interest and immense talents early, at 11, he took up the oud. a plucked lute. By 13, Hagopian started studying the oud with the internationally renowned Armenian artist Kanuni Garbis Bakirgian. He also learned the clarinet and the dumbeg and the kanoun, essential elements in a traditional Near Eastern orchestra, and he mastered the accompanying musical theory, notation techniques, and both the classical and folk repertoires. He was given the title "Oudi" in 1969 by the internationally famous virtuoso Oudi Hrant, a blind master. This is the highest honor an oudist can receive.



This program is produced with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Darden Restaurants Foundation.



for more information:
213 687 2190
www.grandperformances.org
350 S. Grand Avenue
Downtown Los Angeles

NEA Folk Arts Heritage Award Winners
Perform Live at California Plaza,

Downtown Los Angeles
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 3 PM

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