Slava Grigoryan
Slava Grigoryan is an award-winning classical guitarist of Armenian descent. He was born in Kazakhstan in 1976, and emigrated with his violinist parents Eduard and Irina Grigoryan and his younger brother Leonard to Melbourne, Australia. Slava and Leonard (aka the Grigoryan Brothers) began their guitar studies at young ages with their father. Slava began playing professionally at 12. He furthered his classical studies through secondary school and college at Victorian Academy of the Arts, and achieved renown as the youngest performer ever to win the Tokyo International Classical Guitar Competition in 1993. As a result, he was offered a recording contract by Sony. His debut for the label, Spirit of Spain, appeared in 1995, followed by Dance of the Angel in 1998 and Another Night in London in 1999. In 2003, he moved over to ABC Classics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and recorded Sonatas & Fantasies, and the first of the Grigoryan Brothers albums, Play. Slava toured incessantly with his brother and as a featured soloist with orchestras as well as playing solo concerts. In 2004, the Grigoryan Brothers released the Rodrigo Guitar Concertos. Slava followed it with Afterimage, The Music of Shaun Rigney. He followed it with Continental Shift, a collaboration with singer, songwriter, and producer Al Slavik in 2005. That same year, he approached improvising jazz guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Ralph Towner about a collaborative tour. Long an admirer of both men, he understood that they were both rooted in classical tradition. They presented a show that featured each member as a soloist, then in duets and finally as a trio. The group has remained a going concern. In 2006, Slava released another solo album, Shadow Dances, followed by Debussy, Mompou & De Falla: Impressions, by the Grigoryan Brothers. In 2007, Slava collaborated in the studio with Towner and Muthspiel. The resulting album, From a Dream was issued in 2008 on Which Way Music (and in 2009 re-released on Muthspiel's Material label). The same year, Slava's Baroque Guitar Concertos was released by ABC Classics. Distance, a Grigoryan Brothers recording from 2009, was the brothers' first to depart from the classical repertoire. Backed by guests on various strings, bass, and drums, the program was composed of modern jazz tunes written by, among others, Towner and Muthspiel. In 2011, Band of Brothers, a diverse recording between the Grigoryans and another set of siblings, Joseph & James Tawadros, was followed by a thematic recording, The Seasons, in 2012. That same year Towner brought Slava and Muthspiel together in a studio in Lugano, Switzerland with producer Manfred Eicher. The sessions resulted in Travel Guide, which was released by ECM in October of 2013.
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Travel Guide
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan
Jazz - Released by ECM on 23 Sep 2013
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Travel Guide
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan
Jazz - Released by ECM on 23 Sep 2013
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Isaac Albéniz: Asturias (Leyenda) (Arr. for Guitar and Strings by Australian Chamber Orchestra)
Slava Grigoryan, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 9 Dec 2022
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Our Place
Slava Grigoryan, Sharon Grigoryan
Chamber Music - Released by ABC Classic on 15 Nov 2019
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Bach: Cello Suites Vol. I (Arr. for Baritone Guitar by Slava Grigoryan)
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 14 Oct 2016
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Gratitudes
Classical - Released by Hush Foundation on 18 May 2023
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Bach: Cello Suites Vol. II
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 3 Nov 2017
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Rodrigo: Guitar Concertos
Brett Kelly, Leonard Grigoryan, Slava Grigoryan
Concertos - Released by ABC Classic on 3 Mar 2017
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Spirit of Spain
Classical - Released by Sony Music Entertainment on 5 Aug 1996
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Baroque Guitar Concertos
Slava Grigoryan, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 17 May 2008
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Pièce En Forme De Habanera
Sharon Grigoryan, Slava Grigoryan
Chamber Music - Released by ABC Classic on 1 Nov 2019
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Songs with Strings
Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan
Classical - Released by Hush Music Foundation on 1 Jun 2010
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Migration
Australian String Quartet, Slava Grigoryan
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 19 May 2017
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Sonatas & Fantasies
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 1 Jan 2002
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Hush Collection, Vol. 10: Songs with Strings
Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan, Grigoryan Brothers
Classical - Released by Hush Foundation on 1 Jun 2010
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Shadow Dances: Music for Guitar by Nigel Westlake
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 23 Sep 2006
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Impressions
Leonard Grigoryan, Slava Grigoryan
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 5 Jan 2007
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Dance Of The Angel
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 8 Aug 1997
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The Three-Cornered Hat: Spanish Fantasies
Southern Cross Soloists, Slava Grigoryan
Chamber Music - Released by ABC Classic on 16 Aug 2008
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Another Night In London...
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 25 May 1999
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Julie-O
Sharon Grigoryan, Slava Grigoryan
Chamber Music - Released by ABC Classic on 8 Nov 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo