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Andrei Razin
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, composer, pianist and
arranger, Laureate of the National Festival "Art of the
Young", Laureate of the National Competition of Young
Composers, Member of the Russian Union of Composers, Andrei Razin was destined for the career of an academic musician,
but his creative interests have a much wider range.
He
produced music scores for the theatrical performances,
modern chamber instrumental and vocal music, jazz
compositions, music for TV shows and advertisement videos,
symphonic music. Razin participated in Russo-French Festival
of Modern Improvisational Music, and numerous other
festivals, performed with Arkady Shilkloper, Mike Ellis,
Vladimir Chekasin, etc.
Andrei Razin was also awarded the "Composer of the year"
(2002) awards by Russian Jazz Journalists Association. As a
leader of Second Approach trio, Andrei Razin performed in
Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and
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Tatyana Komova
When studying at a music college in her native Dnepropetrovsk
(Ukraine), destiny brought
Tatyana Komova
to Mikhail Tsygutkin's Gamma ensemble that
vocally interpreted instrumental music by Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi. The
ensemble performed at various jazz festivals, including one
in Moscow.
In 1983
Tatiana moved to Moscow. On entering the Institute of Culture
she started to perform jazz. At the same time she could be heard on radio
and TV performing Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov.
In 1986 her
talent was demanded by the world-famous Gypsy ensemble, The Romen trio, which two years later transformed into her duet with Georgy Kvik. Duet
Romen was warmly greeted in more than 30
countries, including France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan,
Israel. Duo's 3 CDs enjoyed good sales and critical acclaim
in Russia. In 1995, she was awarded the title of Merited
Artist of Russia. Komova's connection with jazz was never
broken, though. Now her interests lie in the sphere of
modern blends of jazz, classical, and traditional music of
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Igor
Ivanushkin
Igor's professional career in music started
when being a student of the Gnessins' Music College in
Moscow. Having graduated from the college and then from
the Gnessins' Russian Academy of Music, Igor played with
Igor Bril and New Generation ensemble for 5 years (late
1980-s - early 1990s).
During following years he
performed with the big band and combo led by Aleksandr
Sukhikh (resulted in a tour in Austria), in Vyacheslav Preobrazhensky Jazz
Band (Pori Jazz Festival, Finland), etc.
Participating in gigs organized as a cultural exchange
between Russia an Ireland he performed in Dublin. He has an engagement with russian (now living in Berlin) trumpet player Igor Shirokov for all the Russian performances.
Igor is a participant and laureate of numerous international
festivals, including ones in Indonesia (1991, 1995), winner
of Grand Prix of competition of jazz performers in Bucharest
(Romania), laureate of International competition of jazz
musicians in Brussels (1990), laureate of the 1st
All-Russian competition of young jazz musicians (Rostov-on-Don).
Igor is also a participant of Arkady Shilkloper quartet
(2001). 2002, he performed at the Odessa Jazz Carnival in
Odessa, Ukraine with the great Israeli saxophonist Roman Kunsman at what happened to be Mr. Kunsman's final
performance shortly before his death. |
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