Richard A. Hagopian

Richard Hagopian (born 1937) is an American Oriental-style oud player, and a well-known world music and traditional Armenian musician from the small town of Fowler near Fresno, California. He has been a musician since childhood, learning to play the violin and clarinet at only nine years old. He started playing the oud at age of 12. At first he was self taught then by invitation studied Eastern (Ottoman Classical) music theory and oud under the internationally famous Armenian artist Kanouni Garbis Bakirgian. Read more on Last.fm