April 26, 2016
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Tickets Selling Out Fast for Tigran Hamasyan’s Luys i Luso Multimedia Installation and Concert

Tickets are selling out fast for jazz prodigy Tigran Hamasyan’s Luys i Luso project, hosted by the AGBU Performing Arts Department. Hamasyan’s rearrangement of 5th to the 20th-century sacred Armenian music for piano and voices—in collaboration with the Yerevan State Choir—is a multimedia installation and concert that uses life-sized screens to project his 2,000-mile pilgrimage through historical Armenia, documented by filmmakers Alex Igidbashian and Emily Mkrtichian. 

The audio-visual installation uses Berlin’s Studio Ondè’s projection technologies, sound design, and animations that transform historic spaces around the world into living, breathing digital recreations. Hamasyan will improvise a live soundtrack to the installation and then will invite his award-winning Mockroot trio to join the concert.    

“This project grew out of a question after Hamasyan’s Luys i Luso tour through historical Armenia in 2015. How can we share with people the experience of watching sacred Armenian music being performed among the ruins of Ani, the first concert to happen there in 1,000 years? How can I show you what it was like to hear Hamasyan’s piano and the choir's voices echo around the walls of the Akhtamar monastery and out onto the waters of Lake Van? We had to get creative and innovative. Together with Hamasyan and Studio Ondè from Berlin, we ventured to create an immersive, full body, digital recreation of our journey that we are very excited to share with audiences in New York City,” says Mkrtichian.

For tickets, please visit http://www.itsmyseat.com/events/569816.html

For more information on AGBU Performing Arts, please visit http://www.agbuperformingarts.org/

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