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Gladiator. A collaborator of Peter Gabriel, Michael Brook, Kronos Quartet, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lionel Ritchie and Queen s Brian May, among many others, Gasparyan has died at age 92.
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 Gasparian ) was born Oct. 12, 1928 in Solak, Armenia, in a village near the capital city, Yerevan. At age six, he began learning the duduk a double-reed instrument close to the Western oboe from his father, who was also a musician. Years later, though, he said in interview with English music journalist Simon Broughton that his biggest inspiration was going as a boy to the cinema, and hearing duduk players accompany the films with their own improvisations.
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