MJF2014 Participant: Olesya Yalunina (vocals, Russia)
17 December 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Igor Zalivalov (violin, Russia)
17 December 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Sledge Azem (guitar, Syria)
17 December 2013
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[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Diana Rosa Trimble (vocals, the UK/the USA)
17 December 2013
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[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Roland Balogh (guitar, Hungary)
17 December 2013
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.[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Peter Toth (drums, Hungary)
17 December 2013
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[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Ilya Ageev (saxophone, Russia)
15 December 2013
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 [...]
MJF2014 Participant: Alexander Shutilov (guitar, Ukraine)
15 December 2013
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[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Konstantin Voynov (drums, Russia)
15 December 2013
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[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Egor Trenin (saxophone, Russia)
15 December 2013
I am a musician saxophonist, clarinetist. Tenor-sax is my basic instrument. I finished Surgut musical college as a clarinetist. I work in orchestra and play alt-sax part.[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Jacob Taruntsov (drums, Ukraine)
15 December 2013
He studied in the Vilkonskiy music school #1 in Chernigov in the piano class, his teacher was Danilova V.V. Since 2005 had been taught by the teachers Kharchenko A.G. and Kuvarzina T.A. in the Stoliarskiy specialized boarding school in the piano class. Since 2008 had been taught in the percussion instrument class by the teacher Leonov V.E. Since 2011 had been Odessa Dankevich musical College stude[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Jacopo Mezzanotti (guitar, Italy)
8 December 2013
Jacopo Mezzanotti is an Italian guitar player living in the Netherlands.
He grew up in a small village in Italy and he started his studies at "Centro musicale Il Barco" in Urbania (Italy), where he was also teaching for a few years before moving to The Netherlands to complete his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag.
In 2012 he participated with his own composition at the YouMe pr[...]
He grew up in a small village in Italy and he started his studies at "Centro musicale Il Barco" in Urbania (Italy), where he was also teaching for a few years before moving to The Netherlands to complete his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag.
In 2012 he participated with his own composition at the YouMe pr[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Jaclyn Guillou (vocals, Canada)
8 December 2013
In 2009 Jaclyn was the recipient of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award from her very first performance at a jazz festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. She performed several of her own compositions and has been gaining serious recognition in Canada as one of the emerging talents in the country. Most recently she became a top 5 finalist in the Made In NY Jazz competition and just retur[...]
MJF2014 Participant: David Blake (guitar, Canada)
8 December 2013
Guitarist and composer David Blake is an emerging talent based in Vancouver B.C.’s vibrant jazz scene. He has performed in venues across the country including Vancouver's Cellar Jazz Club, Toronto's The Rex, Montreal's Upstairs, The National Music Center in Calgary, Edmonton's Yardbird Suite and many more.
David's compositions have been performed by various groups which have been featured in th[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Yuri Zhigunov (bass, Belarus)
8 December 2013
At the age of 9 Yuri graduated from a children’s music school flute class. Studying there he started to play a contrabass and fell in love with this instrument and its sound forever. Yuri’s parents presented to him the Fender Jazz Bass when he was 12 years old and then he started studying the bass-guitar and Arievich’s etudes. He also plays drums and a guitar. Yuri played in different styles[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Ivan Kharlamov (piano, Ukraine)
8 December 2013
Ivan is a student of the second course of the National Academy of Culture and Arts. He is the winner of many national and international contests, the contest of young improvisers after Temkin D. (Kremenchug), the contest of young jazz performers (Donetsk). Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ron Carter greatly influenced Ivan. He especially likes Old school. His favorite styl[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Anna Mia (vocals, Russia)
8 December 2013
Anna Mia is a singer, songwriter and composer. Anna Mia lived in the mountains and learn how to sing with a nightingales and other birds. She`s worked with project Moonvoyage on EP "Dreamers" and with Planet Ragtime on single "Character". Shalapi (Moonvoyage) says: "One of the most extraordinary voice that I've heard". [...]
MJF2014 Participant: Olga Zemlyanika (vocals, Russia)
8 December 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Dimitris Angelakis (vibraphone, Greece)
8 December 2013
Dimitris Angelakis is a Fulbright jazz vibraphone player from Greece who is doing his master’s degree in Philadelphia (USA).
“Someone asked me many years ago why I play this instrument and I answered: I like to hit notes and I like jazz, as simple as that”
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MJF2014 Participant: Oleg Leshtayev (drums, Transnistria)
8 December 2013
“I love this loud instrument since childhood. I started playing music professionally after entering the Higher Musical College in Tiraspol. Currently I study at my 4th year as a drummer. I perform and listen to music of different kinds: jazz, jazz-rock, funk, Latin music, etc.”[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Kirill Matsaenko (saxophone, Belarus)
7 December 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Dmitrij Golovanov (piano, Lithuania)
7 December 2013
Dmitrij Golovanov is one of the most demanded jazz pianists in Lithuania. He is the winner of several international jazz piano competitions as well as the semifinalist of Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition in 2012 and a finalist of European Jazz Competition in Rotterdam in 2013. For the last decade he is an active participant of Lithuanian jazz scene collaborating with most prominent musicians. [...]
MJF2014 Participant: Antonio Vicioso (guitar, Dominican Republic)
6 December 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Reyhan [Reyharp] Naufal (harmonica, Indonesia)
3 December 2013
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1997, Reyharp or Reyhan Naufal is one of the young shooting stars emerging on the contemporary harmonica scene. Reyharp plays blues and jazz on the diatonic harp with a maturity and assurance which belies his years and astonished listeners at the prestigious Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival 2012, where he won the diatonic contest in the face of stiff competition.Reyhar[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Veronika Cicinskaite-Golovanova (vocals, Lithuania)
3 December 2013
Veronika is a jazz singer and composer of a young jazz generation in Lithuania. Since 2008 she is an active member of Lithuanian Jazz scene. 2013 Veronika graduated Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where she finished music performance (vocals) and music pedagogy master studies. She also studied in F. Liszt High Music School in Weimar, Germany (with Jeff Cascaro and Michael Schiefel).
Sh[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Inbar Fridman (guitar, Israel)
25 November 2013
After performing throughout Europe with several groups led by French bassist Olivier Gatto alongside pianist Camelia Ben Naceur and legendary drummer Billy Cobham, Inbar went into the studio to record “Time Quartet Project”. Collaborating with Camelia and fellow french band members, the quartet traveled to the foot of the Pyrenees in the south of France. Inspired by the vast French countryside[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Fabienne Benebig (vocals, New Caledonia)
25 November 2013
Registration is in progress[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Michel Benebig (Hammond organ, New Caledonia)
25 November 2013
Michel B?n?big was born in New Cal?donia (South-Pacific). He started playing bass, accord?on and ?lectronic-organ (Farfisa) at 11 in differents dancing-bands all around New Cal?donia.
Michel started to learn piano and music-theory at 16 at the E.T.M (Ecole Territoriale de Musique de Noum?a), he obtained the “Golden M?dal” certificat on Piano in 1988 .
He studied in high level of classical-[...]
MJF2014 Participant: Denis Kovtun (guitar, Russia)
25 November 2013
I was born and grew up in Krasnodar. I finished the musical college named after M. P. Musorgskiy in St. Petersburg. Among educators I would distinguish Sergey Dikman, Hasan Baghirov, Alexandra Starostenko with special reverence. For about 7 years I was playing jazz standards along with practicing finger-style and classical guitar. The most important thing for me is certainly jazz!
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MJF2014 Participant: Tomer Mezamer (piano, Israel)
15 November 2013
I am a jazz pianist and former classical pianist. I studied in Berklee college of music in 1989-1991. I play jazz and Latin jazz and teach piano. I am also an arranger and owner of a big recording studio.[...]
- Everything About the Contest
- Brief description
- Project Goals
- General Information
- Concept of the Festival-Contest
- Stages of Development and Jazz Styles
- Award Ceremony
- Criteria for Evaluation of Jazz Skills
- Composition of the Jury of Festival-Contest
- Nominations MJF 2013
- Nominations MJF 2014
- Concept of TV Version and Spin-Off
- Master-Jam Fest 2013
Press-Announcement - Master-Jam Press-Release
- Accreditation