Biography
Photo by Jing Yi Teo
Armen Nalbandian is a composer and pianist whose work is built on a foundation of free jazz, classical, and Armenian folk music, with the practice of spontaneous composition as a means to discover poetry.
With a prolific recording discography, Armen has collaborated with several notable musicians including Chris Corsano, Jeff Parker, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Han Bennink, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Riki Hidaka, Alex Cline, Steve Lehman, Chris Speed, Dave King, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits, Guillermo E. Brown and Sachiko M, whilst pursuing multidisciplinary collaborations with writers, visual and performance artists.
In 2023, Armen co-founded Outlyr-e, a distributed strategy practice aiming to create the conditions for creative thought applied to organizations in the arts.