His death was announced July 6 on social media by his grandson and protege, Jivan Gasparyan Jr. No other details were provided. Gasparyan (whose names are sometimes transliterated as "Djivan" and ...

The duduk player and composer took his music from the mountains of his native Armenia to some of Hollywood's biggest films. Along the way, he... You might not know the late Armenian musician and ...

You might not know the late Armenian musician and composer Jivan Gasparyan by name, or even by the name of his instrument. But you've almost certainly heard his duduk, shifting between keening wails ...