Notes that love one another
[ 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 drive girls crazy ?"
"Is the expression ''Dumb like a tenor'' justified by the laws of acoustics ?"
"How did the execution of Robespierre trigger the birth of Jazz ?''
"La Sultane" - (Du piano solo au trio)
La Sultane, scheduled for release in October 2025, is the fifth album inspired by Armenian music for André Manoukian. For him, it is an inexhaustible source of creation.
The colors of Armenian music blend perfectly with modal jazz. On stage, the artist likes to say that his Eastern origins are also those of our Western music.
Her piano becomes her intimate memory, her cultural heritage, a language of tenderness. Between East and West, her compositions, supported by the spectacular phrasing of Mosin Kawa's Indian tablas and
Guillaume Latil's cello, sketch out a borderless horizon, Levantine arabesques like so many initiatory routes, labyrinths and meanders that seem to embrace the folds and creases of our memories.
Ma Sultane" is what my mother used to call my little sister before devouring her with kisses. A Turkish word to express the overflowing love of Armenian mothers for their daughters. The boys were entitled to: mon Pacha."
A concert that combines virtuosity, delight and delicacy.
(Line up; Piano, violoncelle, tablas)
Between duel and duo Jean-Francois Zygel and André Manoukian
No holds barred in the duel between André Manoukian and Jean-François Zygel. When it comes to repartee (pianistic and verbal), the two protagonists are not to be outdone! But don't worry, the battle is rather good-natured and light-hearted!
Each at his own keyboard, sometimes adversaries, sometimes accomplices, the two musicians play a furious game of notes. Nourished by variations and improvisations, their tribulations cross paths with Bach, Beethoven, Brel, Bill Evans, Mozart and Duke Ellington. André Manoukian and Jean-François Zygel are both gifted with words, piano, humor, expression, a passion for music and an extraordinary talent for transmission. There's no doubt about it: they have fun on stage, and they'll have fun for you too.