Education:bio * Ekaterina began her musical journey at the age of 5. Initially, she started playing piano, and later added guitar, clarinet, and saxophone at the Music School for Children, located in a Moscow region known as Serpukhov. While in school, she performed in various city festivals, regional competitions, and concerts. She was also a member of numerous educational and town municipal wind[...]

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"I am in love with music and singing from childhood. I listened to various kinds of music, but the first genre I totally fell in love with by starting my studies at Moscow College of Improvising Music, - was Jazz. At that time I had a wonderful chance of singing in "Peek-a-boo" sextet and then later on in the jazzy-disco-funky-soul cover band "The Jamix", that we created with a friend of mine to s[...]

Viacheslav finished Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory (piano and organo speciality), now He is a post-graduate and teacher on the organ and harpsichord department, where he teaches organ improvisation. He is interested in Renaissance and Medieval music and play polyphonic improvisations. He studied jazz by himself and plays in his own trio for five years. There are jazz standarts and contemporary[...]

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Anton is a student at Moscow Gnessin’s Russian Academy of Music.[...]

Alexander Gasukha (Internet nik is Mr.Gas) is a participant of Jazz Festival “Jazz over the Yenisei” 2001 and 2007. He teaches the guitar in Krasnoyarsk. During three years he performed in Germany and Sweden.[...]

Anton is a second-year student at Russian Academy of Music (RAM) Gnesin. He is the first violist at the “Academic band” conducted by Anatoly Kroll. His favorite music styles: post-bop, contemporary-jazz. Besides his musical activity Anton likes playing chess.[...]

Yuriy is Kemerovskij Arts and Culture governmental university, variety orchestra and ensemble department graduate, specialized in percussion instruments (2011). He is various contests and festivals frequentative participant in composition of the 'Joy Spring' band. Also, the 'ENI Jazz Fest' (Krasnojarsk, 2011). He was also the 'Culture perspective', 2nd grade laureate (St. Petersburg) and got the I[...]

Born in La Orotava (Canary Islands, Spain) in 1988. Currently studying MASTER IN JAZZ MUSIC at CvA (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) with Ruud Breuls and Jan Oosthof after finishing the specialty of Jazz Trumpet MUSIKENE (Center for Advanced Musical Studies of the Basque Country) with trumpeter Chris Kase. He has also received classes of Perico Sambeat, Bob Sands, Miguel Blanco, Roger Mas, Francesc C[...]

Musician, who was engaged in many different areas and took part in many concerts. He is a talented composer whose unique works are full of remarkable Brazilian spirit. His creations were recognized by Cultural Department of Goi?nia, there were used as the soundtracks, and some of them were included to the guide “Guia de M?sica Contempor?nea Brasileira”. Arnaldo Freire's work as a teacher has [...]

Jazz violinist. Songwriter and frontman of his solo fusion project. He studies jazz by himself, constantly takes part in jams, as well as in projects of other musicians. Now he works on a contract in Qatar as a violinist and violin teacher. There he regularly plays gigs and jams with musicians from different countries.[...]

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  Dear friends!   Today, the 19th of December, is a Birthday of Mikhail Pavlovich Freidlin, author and general producer of «Master-Jam Fest», candidatea of economic sciences, chess player, yachtsman, authora of scientific articles and books on economics, inventive,a cheerful, persistent and simply wonderful person.     Dear Mikhail Pavlovich!   We wish that your inner vision will never let you down in the future. Thanks to it, you [...]

Guitarist, trombonist, arranger and composer, Emiliano Sampaio lives nowadays in Graz (Austria). He studies Jazz Composition with Ed Partyka, Michael Abene and Ed Neumeister at Universit?t f?r Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. Born in S?o Paulo in 1984, he studied Popular Music in the University from Campinas (Unicamp), where he got a Bachelor and a Master degree with the research “The composit[...]

Sergey Kuznetsov - harmonica. Leader of Overdrive Blues Band and Yaroslavl Dixieland Band. “Music education isn't presented, but I always wanted to play as equals on stage with masters. I learn to play clarinet, saxophone, harmonica by myself. I adore the traditional jazz and classical music” – says Sergey about himself.[...]

Alexander started play guitar relatively late, at age 17, under the influence of rock music. Later he became interested in improvisational music. In 2013 he graduated from KNUA in electric guitar. At present he is the frontman in “Club 27” (fusion, rock) (www.club27.com.ua), and session musician in various styles. Previously participated in many Ukrainian jazz competitions, as a part of Big Ba[...]

Anna graduated from a musical college in violin, The Gnesins Music Academy, majoring in vocal. She works on her own technique of universal voice production, teaches.\r\nCreative team - duet Jazz-W.A.V.E. (piano + vocals) gives her an opportunity to try herself in different styles and genres. Their original tranions- not only jazz standards, but also the world hits, city romance, classical music, t[...]

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Based in Turin (Italy), Lorenzo Giorda also known as Lord Theremin, began his career playing keyboards in the ‘70s and Flamenco guitar in the ‘80s approaching, in the same period, the Flamenco and Afro dance and studying percussions with Bruno Rose Genero (Turin). Versatile musician, in the ‘90s he introduced the Flamenco guitar in traditional music, practicing the Folk music from Latin to B[...]

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Sledge, whose real name is Soubhi al Mouayad al Azem, was born in 1979 to one of the most famous families in Damascus. Even as a child, he was into playing guitar and listening to different styles of music. When he went to Damascus’ Russian Cultural Centre, Sledge started to learn the classical guitar. However, inspired by the playing of musicians such as Paco De Lucia, Sabicas Fights and Ni[...]

While Diana Rosa loves the art of composing that she’s developed over the past couple of decades, she has also realized that the freestyle improvisation she began her career with in her teens, is truly one of her main strengths with collaboration being another. The opportunity to create on-the-fly arrangements with top players, live on-stage, is therefore what has attracted her to the 2014 Maste[...]

Roland Balogh is a jazz guitarist and composer. He started playing guitar when he was six years old. He took his high level diploma in 2007 in the K?b?nya Music School. Prizes: -2009 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition, 1st prize -2010 Voice&Guitar Competition, 1st prize -2011 Junior Prima Award -2012 Jazzy Radio Song Contest, 1st prize.[...]

My name is Pel Peter Toth. I started with drums from age of 6. I also have been studying the classical music for five years. In the beginning, I was interested in hard rock and metal music. I have engaged in these styles for many years. I studied jazz also in a music school. I played in the music school big band as well as in the marching band. In 2009 I passed the entrance exam in the Conservator[...]

Dear friends!   During the four final days of the first MJF season performances on the festival stage were broadcasted online. You will find videos about each competition day and Gala Concert featuring all the MJF-2013 finalists and other video-materials on our website in the video gallery.   We offer you video-digest briefly summarizing the [...]

Ilya is engaged in music from 8 years. Began to play on saxophone at 11 years, did tranion and improvisations. He graduated from children's music school of jazz by Kim Nazaretov, and Rostov College of Arts (all with honours), and is now studying at the Conservatory. He can play all kinds of saxophone (alto, tenor, soprano, baritone) and piano and flute. Plays both jazz and classical music. He is [...]

He was born in Belarus, raised in Sevastopol. Alexander became interested the guitar at age 15. His performance style was formed by influence of such guitarists as Al DI Meola, Paco de Lucia, Juan Carlos Quintero, Vicente Amigo, Santana, and others. Alexanders’ favorite genre is fusion. He considers improvisation is the most engrossing and vivid language of music. “I wish a vibrant jam to ev[...]

Education: Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture, Department of " Musical variety art" (2007-2012), St. Petersburg College. MP Mussorgsky, "Variety office" (2003-2007) Creative activities Groups: Group "Bingo Paprika" Funk, Jazz-Rock ( 2013 -present ), "Moscow District Pipe Band" (2012-present), Group "Van Moo" Pop, Dance (2013), "Osipov Band", Jazz, Fusion (2011-2012), "Quintet N. Skvort[...]