As part of the year-long celebration of Nonesuch Records' 60th anniversary, Tigran Hamasyan joins the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists stop by the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Hamasyan stops by and chooses music by Brad Mehldau Trio, Richard Goode, Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau, Kronos Quartet, and Fleet Foxes.

The video for Tigran Hamasyan’s rendition of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “All the Things You Are,” featuring Mark Turner on tenor saxophone, from his 2022 album StandArt. The album comprises American standards from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others, as well as a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates. Photograph of Tigran Hamasyan by Davide Monteleone. Photograph of Mark Turner by Avo Tavitian. Video animated by Robert Edridge-Waks.

The video for Tigran Hamasyan’s rendition of Elmo Hope’s “De-Dah,” from his 2022 album StandArt. The album comprises American standards from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others, as well as a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates. Paintings by Gaguik Martirosyan. Animated by Robert Edridge-Waks.

The video for Tigran Hamasyan's "37 Newlyweds," from his 2020 album, The Call Within. Directed by Hayk Matevosyan, with cinematography by Justin Richards, Hamasyan says: "This song is dedicated to 37 Armenian newlywed couples from 37 villages who, in 1918, put on black tunics, marked their foreheads red, got on their white horses, and rode into the battle to fight the Ottoman army."

Tigran Hamasyan's "The Dream Voyager," from his 2020 album, The Call Within. The video features collages by Nanuka Tchitchoua and animation by T. Wade Ivy. "This song is dedicated to my father, who has an ability to see places in his dreams where he has never been before," Hamasyan says. "Every once in a while, he visits these places following the memory of the details of his dreams."

Tigran Hamasyan's "New Maps," from his 2020 album, The Call Within. Video directed by Vahan Stepanyan and featuring archival footage from the Public TV Company of Armenia and the US Library of Congress. Dedicated to Artavazd Peleshyan.

Tigran Hamasyan's "Levitation 21," from his 2020 album, The Call Within. Video directed by Luska.

Here is the video for Tigran Hamasyan's "Rays of Light," from For Gyumri, a companion to 2017’s An Ancient Observer. Hamasyan says: "These songs are musical observations about the world we live in now, and the weight of history we carry with us." Video directed by by Elena Hamasyan. Edited by Merri Mkrtchian, Elena Hamasyan, and Gohar Martirosyan.

Tigran Hamasyan's "Leninagone," from his 2017 album, An Ancient Observer. Video by Melanya Hamasyan. “Leninagone” is dedicated to all of the children who survived the devastating earthquake that happened twenty-nine years ago today in my home town Gyumri (Soviet name: Leninakan)," says Hamasyan. "I come from the generation of children whose lives were directly affected by this tragic event and the collapse of the Soviet Union three years later. This video footage is from my second grade elementary school end-of-the-year performance in 1995, which someone happened to record on VHS tape. This is school N. 10, which at the time was a temporary school that the children attended while the real building was being constructed. When I found this tape in my parents' video archives, I felt that this footage was the visual reflection of what I felt when I wrote “Leninagone.” The video portrays the struggle and the hope of all the generations that lived through this apocalyptic time."

Tigran Hamasyan gives an inside look at the first leg of his tour following the release of An Ancient Observer on Nonesuch Records in 2017. Video by Elena Hamasyan.