Armenia's Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble has won the 2012 Edison Awards prize for best folk album.

Levon Eskenian, founder of the Ensemble, and members Emmanuel Hovhannisyan and Norayr Gaboyan, travelled to the Dutch city of Eindhoven for the awards ceremony on November 28.

Upon accepting the award Eskenian said, “Winning this award is a great honor for us. It has given us a huge creative boost. It was also a great opportunity for the ensemble to once again perform on the international stage.”

The Edison music award is an annual Dutch music prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in the music industry. It is one of the oldest music awards in the world, having been presented since 1960.

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in 2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian with the aim of creating ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music.

The ensemble consists of leading Eastern folk instrumentalists in Armenia playing duduk, blul/nay, saz, tar, kiamancha, oud, kanon, santur, dap/daf, tombak and dhol.