Creating arrangements for four musicians with "new duduk tones, alto and bass, was an extremely difficult task" and challenge, but the quartet did become a reality performing and "there is no other like it in the world", he witnessed in the liner notes of Nazeli. In 1998 he released an album with a unique duduk quartet he formed. He is a Honorary citizen of Yerevan.Ī professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he instructed and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk. In 2002, he received the WOMEX ( World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the honorary title People's Artist of Armenia. He won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1948, he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Solak, Armenia, to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six.
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