Djivan Gasparyan ( born 1928 in Solag, Armenia) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, an Armenian double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Djivan Gasparyan is widely known as the "Master" of Duduk. On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring - Page 87 by Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright World Music: The Rough Guide - Page 334 by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo [LINK: http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=16132822] Djivan Gasparyan at MSN music Biography He has won four world-wide gold Medal UNESCO competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973, he became the first musician to receive the honorary title of People's Artist of Armenia.[LINK: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:abftxq85ldhe~T1] Biography at All Music Guide A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory,

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