The two Armenian musicians Arto Tuncboyaciyan and Ara Dinkjian have carved a parallel course of life through common values. The joyous result of this gathering is the album TEARS OF DIGNITY. Arto composes music for the oud, sazbo, sabus, cura saz and kanun, that have their roots deep in the tradition, and Ara feeling the aura of Arto's music, adds to it by giving it form. TEARS OF DIGNITY won the Armenian Music Awards in 1998.
- Uscila
- Tears of Dignity
- He Shares the Ground
- Passage from Salamanca
- Black Horses
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- Oror Burbrick
- Green Plums
- Balantin - Seto - Otana
- Herunazel
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Arto Tuncboyaviyan was born in 1957, in Galataria, a town outside Constantinople. He is the youngest child of an Armenian family, with roots from Anatolia. His professional career began at the age of 11, by his brothers' side and continued for 27 years. In 1981, he moves to the USA, with the belief that he will be able to make it as the musician he wants to be, without giving up his ideas and personal ideology. TEARS OF DIGNITY is his first peronal album, that also features cofounder and NIGHT ARK member, Ara Dinkjian. Arto has collaborated with some of the most important musicians of the past decades like: Joe Zawinul, Al Di Meola, Chet Baker, Dino Saluzzi, Marc Johnson, Marc Cohn, Bob Berg, Arthur Binthe, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Eleftheria Arvanitaki. |