Slava Grigoryan
Slava Grigoryan’s classical guitar brings colour, texture and a pleasurable weightlessness to chamber music, whether set against mandolin orchestra shimmer, late-night improvisation, or spare contemporary Australian scores.
On easy-listening classical selections with the Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra he is the soloist whose playing already drew comparison with the greats, a tomorrow’s virtuoso with today’s attitude. In live Melbourne Recital Centre sessions he joins cello and piano for freely expressive takes on Bach-derived waltzes and Jobim, the guitar adding welcome colour without weight. With oboe he partners in Shaun Rigney’s End Point, one more strand in a body of work that moves easily between plucked-orchestra brilliance, sophisticated late-night listening and new Australian chamber writing.
Slava Grigoryan appears on
Bright Vessel
Tall Poppies is proud to release Bright Vessel, an important collection of Australian works for solo oboe and oboe d’amore, gathered and performed by Stephen Robinson.
Slava Grigoryan is a member of
Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra
The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra was formed in 1967 by Peter Evans and Josef Ruecker to develop and maintain a mandolin orchestra in Melbourne. Besides regular performance it organises summer schools and workshops, trains new players, hosts visiting groups and commissions new music.