Tatev is an electrical songster, a film composer and performer whose music and voice feel right at home in rock, jazz, soul, Armenian folk, classical and pop. Tatev’s name means “Give Wings” in her native Armenian, which inspires her body of work that upholds the liberating prophecy of her name.
A multidisciplinary arts entrepreneur, translator and activist, Tatev was born in post-soviet Armenia on July 7th in 1987.
She immigrated to America in 2003, where she received a full scholarship to NJPAC’s Jazz For Teens program, followed by her classical piano, voice and jazz studies at William Paterson University.
Ms. Tatev is a Recording Academy Member and in November of 2024 she repatriated to Armenia to work as the Artistic Department Manager and Program Coordinator at the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra as a representative of Keron Foundation’s “Talent Pool” and iGorts government programs with a three-year contract.
Tatev worked at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, led Song Writing and Recording workshops at TUMO in Yerevan and has over twenty years of experience in live performances throughout the U.S. and abroad as a solo artist as well as a collaborator with numerous artists, dancers, and directors around the world.
She has performed with the legendary, Paquito D’Rivera at Punta del Este International Jazz Festival in Uruguay, has recorded and performed with Tigran Hamasyan, Grammy-nominated Arto Tunçboyacian, Benito Gonzalez, her long time band members, Kate Victor, Campblicated and many others.
Tatev is a music ambassador and was a Fellow at OneBeat Colombia sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Culture and Education. She received the YoungArts composer’s grant for “Transformational Film Series” in 2016 and her vocal arrangement for “Sounds of Sevan” project in collaboration with Music of Armenia became the winner at the London International Motion Pictures Awards in 2019. Her short film “Unframed” became the winner at Cayenne Short Film festival in 2020.
Tatev’s musical influences, belief in the universality of sound, inspirations from fables, languages, enlightened peoples around the world and connections to Mother Nature weave a rich and genre-fluid career path.
