June 7

Terminal 7

Pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan’s potent jazz improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia. Tigran’s career has included an impressive number of accolades, including top piano award at the 2013 Montreux Jazz Festival and the grand prize at the prestigious 2006 Thelonious Monk Jazz Piano Competition. In 2015, Tigran garnered the prestigious Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the following year earned the Echo Award (The German Grammy) for best international piano album of the year.