MJF2014 Participant: Oscar Carreras Molina (piano, Spain)

9 January 2014
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MJF2014 Participant: Yamil Hernandez Cobos (percussion, Spain/Cuba)

8 January 2014
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The percussionist, singer, and composer Yamil Hernandez, was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. In 2002 he begins his professional life in music creating together with Jorge L. Robaina and Yuri?n Hern?ndez the band “Kaf? con Leche”. With this band he gives his first concerts in Havana and in the year 2003 his first tour in Spain. Within this tour he recorded his first album “D?jame Volar” wi[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Gerardo Lopez Pontaque (trumpet, Spain)

8 January 2014
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MJF2014 Participant: Frank Cabrera (guitar, Spain)

8 January 2014
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MJF2014 Participant: Fran Dominguez (trumpet, Mexico)

8 January 2014
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Fran Dom?nguez was born in March 4, 1956, in Vedado, Havana Cuba. He completed his musical studies at the "Conservatoire of music of la Habana Amadeo Roldan", he was a pupil of the great trumpeter Jorge Varona founder of the famous group "Irakere", received support to improve their tessitura or registry of acute notes on the trumpet of the "Arturo Sandoval" grandmaster who is also influenced somet[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Filippo Cosentino (guitar, Italy)

8 January 2014
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Filippo Cosentino is one of the most appreciated italian guitar players. Graduate cum laude at Conservatorio G.B.Martini in Bologna under the supervision of M° Tomaso Lama. He performed on tour and in studio with many famous italian and foreign artists: pop, with Paola Turci (at Cantautori d'Italia festival), Alan Bonner, Luca Mercurio, Paolo Toso; blues, with James Thompson, Marco Pandolfi, Nick[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Cristobal Fontecilla (guitar, Spain)

8 January 2014
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Cristobal started studying music (cello, composition, classical..) at age 9 and picked the guitar at 12. He is self taught on guitar, and he has been working as a professional since age 17. He did many recordings, both as a guitarist and producer and been performing live in 20 countries (Europe, Asia, The middle East, Africa, the USA) with different artists and his own bands. He recently released [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Konstantin Kalmykov (saxophone, Ukraine)

8 January 2014
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MJF2014 Participant: Ruslan Huseynov (bass, Azerbaijan)

7 January 2014
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Ruslan Huseynov is a bass-guitar player and a contrabassist. He started studying music as a classical guitar player, but at the age of 16 continued with bass guitar and later with contrabass. He could always easily adapt to brand new genres. It let him, as an all-class musician, play with all of the jazz performers of the country, perform on various stages of such countries, as Germany, France, A[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ksenia Boyarskaya (vocals, Ukraine)

29 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Viktor Pavelko (saxophone, Ukraine)

29 December 2013
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Victor Pavelko is a participant of various Jazz Festivals in Ukraine and Europe. He is a composer, arranger and the bandleader. Victor is the best saxophonist according to Do#Dж 2009. He performs with such groups as "Viktor Pavelko Quartet", "Deep tone project", "Kiev Big Band", "Oleg Pashkovskiy Quartet" and many more. Currently he is about release of his first album as a soloist.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Dmitriy Miroshnik (beatbox, Ukraine)

29 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Vladimir Einaliyev (beatbox, Russia)

29 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Alexej Malakhau (saxophone, Germany/Belarus)

29 December 2013
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Saxophonist Alexej Malakhau was born and raised in Minsk (Belarus). He graduated Minsk College of Music and Hochschule f?r Musik K?ln (Germany). Since 2003 he lives and is engaged in creativity in Germany. Alexej performed with such prominent musicians and collectives as: Kenny Wheeler, Diana Torto, John Taylor, Triosence, First Skyfloor, Bodek Janke, Matthias Schrifl, Olivia Trummer, German Natio[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alexey Rodriguez (drums, Spain)

29 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Hovhannes Avanesyan (percussion, Belarus)

29 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Andrey Danilov (guitar, Russia)

29 December 2013
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A graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Art (2013). Participant of such festivals as "Many Faces of Guitar 2013», «Gnesin-Jazz 2014" and the «The Modern Art Collective» project.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Yuriy Beliy (saxophone, Ukraine)

29 December 2013
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Yuriy is composer and saxophonist, participant of all-Ukrainian jazz festivals. He finished Donetsk musical academy named after S. Prokofiev. He performs jazz standards and author’s music in different ensembles. He prefer performing and listening to music of Afro-American performers.[...]

MJF 2014 Participant: Arthur Loran (saxophone, Russia)

24 December 2013
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Arthur gratuated from the State College of Jazz Music in 2011. Now he is a 3rd course student at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. Arthur is a saxophone player. His professor is Alexander Oseychuk. As a musician of the "Academic Band" orchestra conducting by the People’s Artist of Russia Anatoliy Kroll he took part in different Russian and International jazz festivals such as: Usadba Jazz, Ja[...]

MJF 2014 Participant: Alexey Makarevich (harmonica, Russia)

24 December 2013
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Alexey was born and lived for many years in Siberia. He finished the conductor-choir department of musical college, and also the academy of culture as “Director of Public Events”. He is a unique performer, who plays the two-row chromatic harmonica. He has been playing this instrument since 2005, accompanying himself with guitar and use this instrument in instrumental and vocal programs. He is [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alex Correa Silva (piano, Brazil/the Netherlands)

24 December 2013
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Alex Correa is originally from Brazil but he is living in Groningen and doing the jazz master program at the Prins Clauss Conservatoire. He is an avant-garde pianist and would like to have the opportunity to show his improvisation skills to Master-Jam Fest audience.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Igor Pererodov (saxophone, Ukraine)

24 December 2013
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Igor is a 22 years old student of jazz department of Kharkiv State Kotlyarevsky University of Arts on alto sax. His favorite sax players are Bob Berg and Gerald Allbright.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Gabriel Martinez Espinosa (guitar, Spain)

24 December 2013
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The guitarist, composer and producer Gabi Martinez, was born and raised in Zaragoza (Spain).From a young age he showed great musical interest. Influenced by his family (his grandfather was guitarist) he took the first spanish guitar lessons from this and after a brief period of classical learning of harmony and musical language, continued self-taught. He started playing guitar at age 8 and he boug[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Kristina Trezune (vocals, Latvia/Austria)

24 December 2013
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Kristina Trezune is a jazz singer, arranger and composer from Latvia. Currently she is studying with American jazz singer and piano player Dena DeRose and trumpet player Stjepko Gut at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. The musical life started at the age of 5 as a classical piano player, at the age of 15 she started the studies at Riga Dome Choir school, jazz department as[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ivan Baryshnikov (saxophone, Russia)

24 December 2013
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Ivan Baryshnikov - a jazz-oriented musician, composer and arranger from Moscow. A leader of the jazz quintet. Currently performs at various concert venues from small jazz clubs to the Moscow International House of Music. Achievements: - Winner of the international contest Gnesin Jazz in 2013 and 2014 - Nominee of the international contest «Jazz World» in 2014 - A participant of Manhattan [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ilya Blazh (drums, Russia)

24 December 2013
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“ I’ve played the piano since I was 4,5 years old. When I was 7 I started playing drums and a trumpet, but the drums “won”. Now I’m playing in various ensembles and in the school orchestra held by Andrey Machnev. My drums teacher is Grigory Deratsuev.
I participated in the competition “Don Chento” in Kaliningrad, where I took the grand prix. In Sochy at “Jazz Step” I also [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Andrew Uskoff (guitar, Belarus)

24 December 2013
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MJF2014 Participant: Artem Filenko (trumpet, Ukraine)

24 December 2013
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Artem has been playing in mainstream-symphonic orchestra for about 6 years. He also participated in different rock, jazz, ethnical and folk ensembles. According to his opinion jazz and improvisation were given to people for expressing their feelings, emotions, characters, moods, when it is not enough words and that it is not easy to learn to play jazz, and it is more difficult to learn to improvis[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Artem Badenko (saxophone, Russia)

24 December 2013
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I’ve been studying music at the Kim Nazaretov Children’s Jazz School since I was 4 years old. From the beginning piano was my major. When I was seven or so I started playing flute, then passed to alto saxophone. When I was 10 I was taken to Kim Nazaretov children's orchestra conducted by Andrey Machnev to play alto saxophone, in a year I sat proceeded to baritone sax, and 2 years ago I finally[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Yakub Saputra (piano, the USA)

19 December 2013
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