Draft:Ivars Arutyunyan

Ivars Arutyunyan is a musician, drummer from Riga, Latvia. He started singing at the age of 2 and moved on to studying classical piano at 6 and classical percussion at 14, which led to discovering playing drums and improvisation at the age of 15.

Throughout the years this energetic, dynamic and musically sensitive drummer has had opportunities to perform and tour with many legends of jazz music as well different artists across the globe such as Seamus Blake, Greg Osby, Logan Richardson, Carsten Dahl, Tomas Franck, Jerry Bergonzi, Jesse van Ruller to name a few. He has also worked with many excellent artists from different genres like Latvian Radio Choir, indie-singer Shipsea and written music for movies, worked with several theatre and dance companies. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV broadcasts and with various ensembles he has played festivals, concerts all across Europe and in the US, China, Tanzania and many other places. He has received awards like Grand Music Award of Latvia 2022, Jazz Record of the Year in Latvia 2019, Grand Prix in Jazz Hoeilaart (B Jazz), Getxo Jazz, ‘Yamaha Drum Day′ etc. Ivars is a graduate of Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and recipient of their scholarship in 2014. He resides in Berlin and has resided in Copenhagen and Paris before.