MJF2014 Participant: Innokenty Ivanov (vibraphone, Russia/Ukraine)

19 December 2013
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Innokenty Ivanov is a vibraphonist, percussionist, composer. Innokenty was born in Ukraine. Since 2004 he lives in Moscow. He works in Elena Kamburova Theatre. Session percussionist. As vibraphonist he performed with Igor Butman Big Band and Peter Vostokov Big Band. Bandleader of his own band Ivanov Vibe Band.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Gazinur Safiullov (guitar, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Gazinur became interested in jazz music in his youth! He plays guitar and considers Clark Willis Conover as his teacher. Gazinur recorded his jazz radio broadcastings on tape, listened, learned! He participated in numerous Jazz festivals. He is a teacher, jazz studio "Caravan" director. He is an initiator and artistic director of the Jazz line "Trust your heart", dedicated to the memory of Willis [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Natalia Skvortsova (piano, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Natalia Skvortsova is a well-known, on the Moscow stage, pianist, composer and arranger, a graduate of Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. She is a member and co-author of several ensembles: Post-Jazz Trio, Fusion Port, InNa. Natalia cooperated with "Asketics", "Stantsiya Mir", Make Elis, "Clone", Sergey Manukyan, Michael Voloh, Pavel Protasov, Dmitry Mospan, Anton Konchakov, Sergei Kra[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Djalil Muhametshin [Farber] (guitar, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Djalil graduated from Gnesin college and academy in Moscow. Taught for 10 years in Ufa college of arts. Worked and performed in Israel, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vitebsk. Djalil is a prize-winner of international festivals and competitions.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Lajos Toth (piano, Austria)

19 December 2013
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Lajos Toth is originally from Hungary. He is studying jazz piano at the Kunst Universitet Graz. He started his third year. Before the university Lajos played many style of music. For example rock, funk, bigband music, raggae, traditional Hungarin music. He learned classic for 12 years. Now he plays with different jazz bands in Graz. In 2011 he had a chance to play with his trio in a final round of[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Zoltan Balogh (piano, Hungary)

19 December 2013
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Zoltan Balogh is a jazz pianist and composer. His favorite style of playing piano is modern jazz but he plays in many bands, which play different styles. He won the 3rd place on the Montreux Jazz piano competition in 2010 and won the 3rd place at the Jacksonville jazz piano competition in 2011. He founded a quartet with his twin brother, who plays guitar. The band’s name is Finucci Bros Quartet.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Florian Muralter (bass, Austria)

19 December 2013
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Double/electric bass player. Florian studied in Graz (Austria) and Hamburg (Germany), participated in several workshops including: Bob Mintzer, Benny Golson, Bill Stewart, John Hollenbeck, and many more. He had an opportunity to tour around Europe with different ensembles. Now he is finishing studies with Morten Ramsbol (dk) in Graz and hoping for some new experiences.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Jozsef Horvath (bass, Hungary)

19 December 2013
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J?zsef Horv?th is a jazz bass player. He won the Peter Dando bass guitar competition where John Pattitucci was the president of the jury.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Elena Petrusenko (flute, Ukraine)

19 December 2013
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Registration is in progress[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Benko Konyves (drums, Serbia/Austria)

19 December 2013
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Benko Konyves (Ben Stone / 20 years old) - was born in Serbia in 93'. He came from a musician family. At the age of 6 started to play piano, later at the age of 9 he started to play drums on his father's influence. He was performing with his band (Ben Stone 5tet) around Austria, Hungary, Serbia. He won two times in a row in Serbia during his high school years the "Percussion Competition - Beograd"[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Grigory Sandomirskiy (piano, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Moscow College of Improvised Music alumnus in jazz piano, pianist and leader of Lampa Ladino, a band that rearranges Judeo-Spanish songs in a variety of styles. Co-founder of Goat's Notes - an avantgarde improve combo. Pianist with Ensemble Priot. Plays blues with Jumping Cats and Dr. Nick. Took part in New School For Jazz And Contemporary Music workshops in Italy, has played with Eyal Maoz, Willi[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ekaterina Ramzhaeva (saxophone, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Olga Pyanova (beatbox, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Registration is in progress[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alexandra Chesskaya (vocals, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Viacheslav Zolotovsky (piano, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Pavel Suyazov (trumpet, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Registration is in progress[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Anton Kuznetsov (drums, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Anton is a student at Moscow Gnessin’s Russian Academy of Music.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alexander Gasukha (guitar, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Anton Subbotin (saxophone, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Yuriy Pushkarev (drums, Russia)

19 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Natanael Ramos (trumpet, the Netherlands/Spain)

19 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Arnaldo Freire (guitar, Brazil)

19 December 2013
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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 [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ilya Netkach (violin, Ukraine)

19 December 2013
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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.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Artem Koryapin (trumpet, Russia)

19 December 2013
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Registration is in progress[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Emiliano Sampaio (guitar, Brazil/Austria)

17 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Sergey Kuznetsov (harmonica, Russia)

17 December 2013
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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.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alexander Gloshkin (guitar, Ukraine)

17 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Anna Novozhilova (vocals, Russia)

17 December 2013
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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[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Alexey Churakov (violin, Ukraine)

17 December 2013
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Registration is in progress[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Lorenzo Giorda (theremin, Italy)

17 December 2013
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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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