Biography

Armen Nalbandian is a composer and pianist known for creating spontaneously composed performances as encounters for the discovery of poetry. His work is built on a foundation of free jazz, classical, and Armenian folk music, and is informed by a profound knowledge of music history and sonic materiality to achieve resonance that transforms spaces and moments.

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.