Vahagni - guitar / Manuel Gutierrez - dance / Antoine Kartz - bass / Diego Alvarez - percussion

My name is Vahagni, and I am a guitarist, composer and producer. My music is not genre-based, rather it is rooted in various cultures from flamenco, Armenian folk, classical, jazz to electronic production and experimental art music.

I’m an Armenian who grew up in LA with a deep connection to Flamenco music, that’s the short version.

I always had the guitar in my hands but started playing at the age of 9. My father being my musical mentor and professional classical guitarist. In my teens I lived and studied flamenco in Andalucia, Spain with masters like Manolo Sanlucar and Paco Serrano in order to submerge myself in that culture. 

My career also started in my teens, playing small gigs, sitting in with my father and his bands. I found the love for composition at a very young age and since then I primarily play my original works in concerts and have recorded four albums and three EP’s as a soloist. 

My curiosities have always pulled me in many directions, from being MD and guitarist for Concha Buika to playing lead guitar for Capital Cities, or co founder of the duo Paco Versailles. Throughout it all,  I never lost my center, which was the Flamenco guitar. A seed with deep roots that was planted in me at a very young age. 

I try to have a very honest and human approach to my music-making. There are a lot of different components to us as individuals and human beings, so our expression naturally consists of all these various concoctions. I aim to find a balance for it all to naturally exist in my music, just like it does in us.