The notes that love each other
[A history of music as you've never heard it]
''- Did you know that the first microgroove was in invented in an egyptian pyramid ?
- Why do singers with high-pitched voices send girls in a panic ?
- Is the expression ''Dumb like a tenor'' justified by the laws of acoustic ?
- How did Robespierre's execution start the birth of Jazz ?''
André Manoukian, alone on piano, provides answers to these fundamental questions.
He reveals the secrets of the great composers, and shows how to express feelings in music.
Through his love affairs sowed with muses, sirens and catastrophes, including in turn Pythagoras or Claude Francois, he retells with his whacky erudition a history of music as you've never heard it.
You''ll never listen to Sheila the same way !
Apatride
"My grand-parents were chased from their home country, Armenia. For a long time I remained allergic to its excesses, its sugar and its passion.
Until the reunion, around a piano one day. "Could you play something from Armenia?"
A vague melody I heard from my grand-mother, played with a wavering finger...
"Sounds like Erik Satie..."
And here I am, exploring new musical territories, with the help of sacred Iranian drums, a Turkish cello player, a Syrian singer, an Armenian duduk, and "Alaturka" rythms, repelling the mental frontiers to draw the outline of a paradise lost somewhere in between Vienna and Samarkhande, searching for sparkles of spleen, to reconnect, for the time of a concert, the sould of my ancesters.
The voices of rising
The magic of a voice is to make us perceive the sacred.Music is the last repository of a magic, which nowhere else but in the East is as perceptible.
André Manoukian takes us to the Levant of his ancestors, guided by the Balkanes who mixed their Bulgarian voices with the Armenian duduk, the Indian tablas and the atmospheric jazz of his quartet.
The Pianos of Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg's father was a bar pianist, Serge Gainsbourg himself in his youth rubbed shoulders with this exhilarating and ungrateful profession at the same time.
For the 30th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg, André Manoukian, Jazz pianist and media man adored by the French public, offers us an album with piano bar atmospheres, felted, elegant and sensual. In “Les Pianos de Gainsbourg”, André Manoukian surrounds himself with female icons that the great Serge would certainly not have denied: Isabelle Adjani, Camille Lellouche, Camélia Jordana, Rosemary Standley, Elodie Frégé and Mélody Gardot.
Videos
André Manoukian " A la recherche des notes qui s’aiment "
André Manoukian - Otantik (extrait de l'album Apatride)
«Barrage volant»: un spectacle d’exception proposé au barrage du Vieux Emosson
André Manoukian 4tet invite Audrey Kessedjian
André Manoukian - Electrik Derviche / Trianon 29/01/2018
Marathon Monk (extrait de l'album Apatride)
Upcoming concerts
20 Jan 2022
ALBI (81) - Scène Nationale d'Albi - Les voix du levant 7tet + les Balkanes
André Manoukian
21 Jan 2022
LIVRY GARGAN (93) - Centre Culturel Cinéma Yves Montand - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
29 Jan 2022
L'ARBRESLE (69) - Salle Claude Terrasse - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
19 Feb 2022
LA SEYNE-SUR-MER (83) - Centre culturel Tisot - "Les notes qui s'aiment"
André Manoukian
13 Mar 2022
AVIGNON (84) - Théâtre du Chêne noir - "Les notes qui s'aiment"
André Manoukian
17 Mar 2022
MONTÉLIMAR (26) - Le Toit Rouge - "Les notes qui s'aiment"
André Manoukian
22 Mar 2022
LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIÈRES (59) - Centre culturel Nelson Mandela
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
26 Mar 2022
MEAUX (77) - Théâtre Luxembourg - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
07 Apr 2022
ANDRÉZIEUX-BOUTHÉON (42), FRANCE - Théâtre du Parc - Les notes qui s'aiment
André Manoukian
08 Apr 2022
ANDRÉZIEUX-BOUTHÉON (42), FRANCE - Théâtre du Parc - Les notes qui s'aiment
André Manoukian
28 May 2022
BIARRITZ (64) - la Gare du Midi
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
Archived concerts
15 Jan 2022
LE RAINCY (93) - Eglise Notre dame de la Consolation
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
14 Jan 2022
COPPET, SUISSE - Théâtre de Terre-Sainte - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
13 Jan 2022
COPPET, SUISSE - Théâtre de Terre-Sainte - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
12 Jan 2022
COPPET, SUISSE - Théâtre de Terre-Sainte - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
08 Jan 2022
AUBAGNE (13) - Théâtre Comoedia - Mes rêves d'Orient - Duo avec Mosin Kawa + invités les Balkanes
André Manoukian
27 Dec 2021
PARIS (75) - Théâtre de l'Oeuvre - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
20 Dec 2021
PARIS (75) - Théâtre de l'Oeuvre - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
13 Dec 2021
PARIS (75) - Théâtre de l'Oeuvre - "Les notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
10 Dec 2021
POISY (74) - Espace Culturel de Poisy - Duo Robin McKelle
André Manoukian
30 Nov 2021
MARSEILLE (13) - All that jazz
China Moses & André Manoukian
21 Nov 2021
LE MANS (72) - Les automn'ales - Piano Solo
André Manoukian
19 Nov 2021
CHÂTEL-SAINT-DENIS (16) - Les Culturailes - ''À la recherche des notes qui s’aiment''
André Manoukian
18 Nov 2021
CLUSES (74) - Théâtre Les Allos - "A la recherche des notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
17 Nov 2021
SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY (01) - Théâtre du Bordeau - "A la recherche des notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
16 Nov 2021
HAGUENAU (67) - Théâtre de Haguenau - Mes rêves d'Orient
André Manoukian
13 Nov 2021
BAGNOLES DE L'ORNE (61) - Centre d'animation et des congrès
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
12 Nov 2021
HÉROUVILLE-SAINT-CLAIR (14) - Théâtre d'Hérouville - André Manoukian 4tet
André Manoukian
05 Nov 2021
NOGENT-SUR-VERNISSON (45) - Espace des Étangs - Piano Solo
André Manoukian
29 Oct 2021
TROYES (10) - Nuits de champagne - " Les Pianos de Gainsbourg "
André Manoukian
22 Oct 2021
TRÉGUIER (22) - Théâtre de l'Arche
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
21 Oct 2021
GUIDEL (56) - L'Estran - "A la recherche des notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
20 Oct 2021
ÉQUEURDREVILLE-HAINNEVILLE (50) - L'Agora - "A la recherche des notes qui s’aiment"
André Manoukian
19 Oct 2021
BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT (92) - La Seine Musicale
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
16 Oct 2021
NIEDERBRONN-LES-BAINS (67) - Le Moulin 9
André Manoukian
07 Oct 2021
MELUN (77) - L'Escale - le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
03 Oct 2021
DRAVEIL (91), FRANCE - Théatre Donald Cardwell
André Manoukian
02 Oct 2021
L'ISLE-ADAM (95) - Scène Adamoise - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
01 Oct 2021
LE VÉSINET (78), FRANCE - Théâtre du Vésinet
André Manoukian
30 Sep 2021
RUNGIS (94) - Centre Culturel Arc en Ciel Théâtre Rungis
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
29 Sep 2021
CALUIRE-ET-CUIRE (69) - Radiant Bellevue - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
26 Sep 2021
LA CHAUSSÉE SAINT VICTOR (41) - Les Joyeuseries
André Manoukian
25 Sep 2021
TORCY (77) - Espace Lino Ventura - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
24 Sep 2021
LIVRON SUR DROME (26) - Salle Simone Signoret - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
23 Sep 2021
MARSEILLE (13) - IFSI La Blancarde -Auditorium
André Manoukian
19 Sep 2021
PITHIVIERS (45) - Théâtre du Donjon - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
12 Sep 2021
SAINT NICOLAS DE LA GRAVE (82) - Festival des voix - Mes rêves d'Orient " Mosin Kawa"
André Manoukian
11 Sep 2021
NÉRAC (47) - Albret Jazz festival - 4tet
André Manoukian
10 Sep 2021
SAINT EMILION (33) - Festival Vino Voce - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
01 Sep 2021
EPINAL (88) - Auditorium de la Louvière
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
31 Jul 2021
CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC (74), FRANCE - Cosmo jazz festival
André Manoukian
28 Jul 2021
VERBIER - Verbier Festival
André Manoukian
24 Jul 2021
CANNES, FRANCE - Cannes
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
23 Jul 2021
CONQUES-EN-ROUERGUE (12) - Cloître de Conques - MES RÊVES D'ORIENT " MOSIN KAWA"
André Manoukian
18 Jul 2021
ECHTERNACH ( 6), LUXEMBOURG - Trifolion
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
16 Jul 2021
SAINT-SYMPHORIEN-DE-LAY (42) - Copler
André Manoukian
10 Jul 2021
NARBONNE (11) - Festival Elizik, Palais des Archevêques - 4tet
André Manoukian
09 Jul 2021
SEGRÉ (49) - Saveur Jazz Festival / André Manoukian 4tet + Robin McKelle
André Manoukian
05 Jul 2021
PONT-AUDEMER (27) - Théâtre l'Eclat - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
04 Jul 2021
ROANNE (42) - Festival du Forez
China Moses & André Manoukian
03 Jul 2021
BRANGUES (38) - Divan Production
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
25 Jun 2021
LA FERTÉ-SOUS-JOUARRE (77) - Ferté Jazz festival - 4tet guest Robin McKelle
André Manoukian
23 Jun 2021
PALAISEAU (91) - Théâtre de la Passerelle / Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
22 Jun 2021
NANTERRE CEDEX (92), FRANCE - Conseil Départemental des Hauts-de-Seine
André Manoukian
16 Jun 2021
ÉTAMPES (91) - Festival m'IMPROvise / 4tet Apatride
André Manoukian
12 Jun 2021
ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS (74) - La Grange au Lac / Duo Robin McKelle
André Manoukian
29 May 2021
CHELLES (77) - Théâtre de Chelles
André Manoukian
26 Mar 2021
BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT (92) - La seine musicale
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian
24 Mar 2021
ANDRÉZIEUX-BOUTHÉON (42) - Théâtre du Parc - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
23 Mar 2021
ANDRÉZIEUX-BOUTHÉON (42) - Théâtre du Parc - Le chant du périnée
André Manoukian
20 Mar 2021
LE RAINCY (93) - Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
Jean François Zygel & André Manoukian
19 Mar 2021
TRÉGUIER (22) - Théâtre de l'Arche
Elodie Frégé & André Manoukian