Michael Sarian | Trumpet: Celebrating Jazz and Armenian Heritage
National Arts Club / Michael Sarian
2026 NAC Artist Fellow Michael Sarian and his quartet present music inspired by the historic Armenian musical tradition.
Trumpeter, composer, and 2026 NAC Artist Fellow Michael Sarian has been praised for his "unique compositional and instrumental voice" (All About Jazz) and his "endlessly renewable strain of lyric improvisation regardless of context or material" (Downbeat Magazine). Born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, Sarian has been based in New York since 2012 and has since performed at iconic venues, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center, Yankee Stadium, The O2 Arena, and the Yankee Blue Note Jazz Club.
For this program, Sarian and his quartet present music inspired by the historic Armenian musical tradition.
Michael Sarian: trumpet/flugelhorn
Liya Grigoryan: piano
Noah Garabedian: bass
Nathan Ellman-Bell: drums
Armenian events around the world
- Armenian Events in the United States
- Armenian events in United Kingdom
- Armenian events in Germany
- Armenian Events in France
- Armenian Events in Canada
- Armenian Cultural Events in Armenia
- Armenian Events in Turkey
- Armenian Events in Switzerland
- Armenian Events in Australia
- Armenian Events in United Arab Emirates
- Netherlands - Armenian events
- Armenian Events in Lebanon
- Armenian events in Italy
- Armenian events in Spain
- Armenian Events in Argentina
- Armenian events in Austria
- Armenian Events in Belgium
- Armenian Events in Portugal
- Armenian events in Brazil
- Armenian Events in Chile
- Armenian Events in Bulgaria
- Armenian Events in Cyprus
- Armenian events in Uruguay
- Armenian events in Greece
- Armenian events in Denmark
- Armenian Events in Sweden
- Armenian Events in Hungary
- Armenian Events in Poland
- Armenian events in Mexico
- Armenian events in Israel
- Armenian events in Romania
- Armenian events in Ireland
- Armenian events in Norway
- Armenian Events in China
- Armenian events in Hong Kong
- Armenian Events in Japan
- Armenian events in Saudi Arabia
- Armenian events in Egypt
- Armenian Events in Finland
- Armenian events in Georgia
- Armenian Events in Russia
- Armenian events in Czechia