This thursday, Armen will premiere a new ensemble: Armen Nalbandian's Broken Ground . Appearing below are the band members. Don't miss this special Rhythms of Art concert!

Armen Nalbandian: Fender Rhodes
Aaron Wall: Percussion
Brian Hamada: Drums
Dustin Peterson: Guitar
Kevin Hill: Bass

Don't miss Armen's new ensemble "Bottomless" with guitarist Mike Dana and drummer Brian Hamada at Veni Vidi Vici at 11pm this saturday night!

Armen Nalbandian's mentor the great John Hicks passed away early this morning. Please visit Armen's blog for more.

On May 25th, Armen will premiere a new ensemble: Armen Nalbandian's Broken Ground . Appearing below are the band members. Don't miss this special Rhythms of Art concert!

Armen Nalbandian: Fender Rhodes
Aaron Wall: Percussion
Brian Hamada: Drums
Dustin Peterson: Guitar
Kevin Hill: Bass

Armen will be (re)premeiring his suite Witness based on artist Anne Scheid's work on June 2nd at 11pm at the Fresno Art Museum's Bonner Auditorium in association with their 58 hour anniversary special. Below appear the member of this year's Witness ensemble:

Brian Hamada-drums
Richard Giddens-bass (www.myspace.com/richardgiddens)
Armen Nalbandian-piano
Larry Honda-woodwinds
Paul Luckessi-woodwinds
Joe Lewis-cornet
Les Nunes-trombone
Andre Bush-guitar (www.andrebush.com)
Eva Scow-mandolin (www.evascow.com)

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Witness!

For more on Anne Sceid please visit: www.annescheid.com

A press release on Armen's Mother's Day concert appears on THE Jazz website allaboutjazz.com. Below is a link:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=9726

Armen will join guitarist Andre Bush for duets to open up friday's JazzFresno benefit concert featuring Tim Ries which starts at 8pm. For more information on Andre please visit andrebush.com. For more information on the concert and JazzFresno please visit jazzfresno.org.

Blacksmith Brother Music and Armen Nalbandian want to hear from you! Over the past 2 years Armen has premiered a large amount of work. Thankfully, the majority of Rhythms of Art history has been recorded and is in Armen's own personal archive. Over the next few weeks Armen will be compiling many of the works in order to make them available exclusively and FREE at armennalbandian.com courtesy of Blacksmith Brother Music. If there was a memorable music moment for you, please email us music@armennalbandian.com to voice your opinion.

Armen has been selected as the July 2006 "Meet the Artist" subject for the underground arts/politics publication California Found. Stay connected for the transcript of the interview as well as information on how to purchase your copy.