Art Voices
  • country:Armenia
  • region:Orient
  • style(s):Jazz, World
  • label:not signed
  • type:Band
  • gender:male
  • instrumentation:instrumental
  • artist posted by:Lucineh Hovanissian

Line up

  • Manuk Ghazaryan (Piano)
  • Artur Grigoryan  (Saxophone )
  • Avag Margaryan  (Blul, Zourna-Armenian national woodwinds)
  • Edgar Avetisyan  (Bass)
  • Hamlet Shaghoyan  (Guitar )
  • Levon Puchinyan  (Trumpet )
  • Pertch Nahapetyan  (Drums )

Created in 2005, "Art Voices" has gained a lot of success in a short period of time. In 2005 the band featured in "The Soldiers of the Future" educational program in Yerevan with Jazz musicians Gary Crosby (bass) and Abraham Wilson (trumpet) invited by the British Council of Armenia. The band had 2 concerts with them at the Yerevan's "Avangard Folk" Club.
In 2006 "Art Voices" took part in the "Jazz Apprication Month" organized by the Embassy of the United States in Armenia. In the same year the band has played at the Yerevan's International Jazz Festival.
The band has toured in Moscow and at ''Le Baiser Sale'' Jazz Club in Paris, France.
"Art Voices" is one of the most acclaimed jazz bands regularly playing in Yerevan's jazz clubs & pubs.
The band is working in world jazz manner, mixing up the Armenian traditional music with the best traditions of Jazz.