it's so fun to come here and perform for you guys i'm going to do a mixture of originals and a mixture of cover songs and i really hope you guys enjoy what i have to play for you so this st song is actually going to be coming out soon and it's about losing my yeah that's why  i post a lot of my own original music so there'll be a lot coming out soon and i'm in the process of writing so much new stuff for you guys to hear i'm so excited i cannot wait so this next song is very very very new and it's called all i wanted was the truth and i feel like  guys enjoy the song if we don't hear before but if you guys want to hear it again here we go  thank you ok thank you obviously going to another original will do another cover so this song is i have ok here's a story so this past weekend last saturday i got to work with jennifer mcgill from the mickey mouse club that was such an awesome awesome opportunity just to spend like eight hours in a workshop with her and just get to learn so much more about music and learn about her experiences being with the mickey mouse club and just being so dedicated to music so young which i feel i can relate to it like you know wanting to perform are going to be and this is about just having so much stuff everyone's always asking you about things you just don't want to talk about you know i i don't want to share so because you just want to know everything you just want to know everything  i don't want to talk about it i don't want to get it  you just want to know everything  to know not oh you need to do i good afternoon it's a pleasure to be at open mike serious i would like to talk to you about this instrument the clarinet which i have been playing for it's been probably one thousand four hundred and fifteen years and the flexibility of the instrument which which is very important  and there are some wonderful works that were written for this instrument a solo so there were words that could be played on this clarinet without  colorful and different in a certain way that will involve a very interesting techniques as well that i will talk about a little later composers of the history who happens to be armenian like like i am and who basically lived in the eight century in armenia her name who was abducted at that time and then later he was passed away so this this piece which is called wonderous it is to me i dedicated to the memory of her brother the piece was originally written for voice to be sang in churches for instance but i made an arrangement of this him for the clarinet and in my opinion it it's a perfect combination because the sound of the clarinet is the closest to the human voice i hope you enjoy to know today what kind of incredible and it's really gorgeous music there was at the time and i have to say that most of the a lot of the armenian music that we have today was originated from from hymns from pieces that were written at that time gregorian chants all as well that were written in the  mandatory procedure so if if you noticed while i was playing i was puffing my cheeks out i was doing this this is the stuff which which is a technique called circular breathing it's it's an ancient technique that comes from even before  the birth of christ it was invented in this technique was invented by glass blowers for instance the glass blowers that would make a vase that would make a vase and they would have to have the air move constantly so they would breathe out and then take a breath through their nose at this at the same time so basically what happens is i can demonstrate with a glass of water and a straw which i have so basically i can have the public not stop i can just keep on keep on going this way so but you can do this well if if you learn how to do this technique circular breathing and i have to say that this technique circular breathing  blowers and my teacher charles and i dick with whom i studied to julliard was perhaps one of the st clarinet players in the classical world to to use this technique so i'm a proud student so this piece that i will play now uses a like you so this is spanish for clarinet solo and i hope that you could notice my my my cheeks being puffed out and the the about this is a clarinet it has basically a different sound and the pitch of the instrument is lower than than the clarinet that i just played the clarinet that i just in in in them he uses a lot of russian folklore a lot of folk music is being used in these pieces a little hence of the rite of spring and  among all of these pieces i just played i think that it's it's it's appropriate that i play a piece one of the greatest american composers elliott carter who had a span of compositional activity all the way until he was one hundred and forty years old he was and in this piece that i'm about to play gras there are two characters there's one character who is very sentimental the other one is capricious and carter combines them in amazing and genius ways i hope you enjoy this notions about being a cowboy but it was an awfully nice place to be doing the hard work that were well started off unusually change the mood a little bit with this next one i wrote this a while ago i have been with inspired is even the right word it seems like a doesn't seem like the right word given the subject matter but fast cars yes that can be a little dangerous this is called potions so i had to put together a list of my tan and top songs of all time would be difficult and so on some of them would come and go or i would  rethink it but this one would be on the list this would be on the on the list for sure this is written by the incredible songwriter townes van zandt and this is  guess you could say his signature song recorded by many many people