Participant: Igor Znatokov (saxophone, Ukraine)

4 August 2012
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Participant: Sergey Nagorniy (Sax, Russia)

2 August 2012
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Sergey Nagorniy (alt-, soprano-sax, Russia) Sergey was born in 1981 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Since he was 7 he learned to play sax with his father Meritorious Artist of Russia - the saxophonist, composer Valeriy Nagorniy. During his education in the musical college he was awarded with the Second Prize in the All-Russia competition of wind [...]

Participant: Meir Ben Michael (guitar, Israel)

2 August 2012
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Israeli guitarist with Moroccan origins. Initiator of a special project called Putty Buff where he combined Moroccan music with B-Pop music, all Meir original wrote. Also Meir participated in Le Turiga Festival in Jerusalem, Israel Festival, the Dead Sea Festival, JVC Festival. He studied at Berkley, his teachers were Jane Brtochony, Atilla Zuller and Wilkenes [...]

Participant: Justin van Uum (bass, The Netherlands)

22 July 2012

Justin van Uum (1989) is a bass player from Maastricht, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2012 for his bachelor electric bass guitar from the Maastricht conservatory. He studies with A. Boerner, and had also side subject double bass from Philippe Aerts. The study also included combo lessons with Claudius Valk, Frank Giebels en Ron van [...]

Participant: Sergey Avanesov (sax, The Netherlands)

22 July 2012

So what can I say about myself? At present time I study in the Netherlands in Prince Claus Conservatory. I like different kinds of music. Mostly I play jazz but I used to play reggae, pop music, etc. I participated in the John Clayton project in the Netherlands. It was an unforgettable experience for me. [...]

Participant: Mark Rozen (sax, Israel)

20 July 2012

«My name is Mark Rosen. I am 42, married and father of two children. I am a senior saxophone player, playing tenor saxophone, alto and soprano. I started playing at the age of 16. I learned in the Conservatory and continued studying with the best teachers in Israel. I participated in many television shows, festivals [...]

Participant: Ilya Blazh (drums, Russia)

20 July 2012

“ 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 [...]

Participant: Taras Kuznetzov (piano, Ukraine)

13 July 2012

Taras Kuznetsov has been absorbed with jazz music since his childhood, though he wasn't limited himself by the classical jazz of 20’s. In process of musical growth he was acquainted with creativity of such masters of jazz music as Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Mike Stern, Michael Brecker, groups Weather [...]

Participant: Alexander Kolosey (sax, Ukraine)

13 July 2012

“I am an alto-saxophonist. In 2012 I finished Donetsk State Musical Academy as a saxophonist, jazz faculty. I have participated in jazz festivals-contests and jam-sessions in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.”

Participant: Tomer Mezamer (piano, Israel)

13 July 2012

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.

Participant: Dmitry Zhirnov (Guitar, Ukraine)

12 July 2012

My name is Dmitriy Zhirnov (Ukraine, 1990). “I play guitar since I was 7. I’m the finalist of the guitar competitions Boss War 2010 and Molotkov's 2012 Competition, the winner of the internet-competition among the CIS guitar players SCHECTER SHRED 2012, which was carried out by the group VK "Guitarist" which has about 200000 subscribers. [...]

Participant: Moran Baron (trombone, Israel)

12 July 2012
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Trombone and bass player from Israel. Lived and studied in NY from 1999 to 2005. Played among others with Bobby Sanabria, Salsa Picante, Charlie Percip Big Band, Joe Deninzon and the band Stratusphirious, Alex Sckolnik, Smalls Big Band and Jason Linder, Matt Miller Big Band and many more. Сurrently lives in Israel and playes both [...]

Participant: Lyubomir Radomsky (sax, Ukraine)

7 July 2012

Lyubomir is a graduate-master of Lviv state musical academy named after M. Lysenko, ideological co-leader of groups "Dzyga Imagine" and "Green Silence" and also a member of numerous projects of jazz-rock-electronic genres. In the past he was a member of several projects and groups (“DNK”, “Sunrise”, “Roman Rak Big-band”, "Lu’co’mbo", bandsman of municipal orchestra of [...]

Participant: Alexey Samarin (piano, Russia)

5 July 2012

Alexey Samarin is a talented Russian pianist and composer, who takes direct part in Russian jazz music development. In 1997 Alexey formed a funk band «Sool Food». After moving to Moscow the band was renamed into «Alexey Samarin Band». At present the band performs only original songs written by Alexey. In 2002 he recordered an [...]

Participant: Wissam Arram (darbuca, Israel)

5 July 2012
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Wissam Arram is a percussionist, playing darbuka, an Arabic ethnic drum. He has been playing this instrument for 26 years. In the middle of his career when he already perfectly played all kinds of Arabic music he went to Florida (USA) to take his instrument to a new direction. He learned how to play Latin [...]

Participant: Amiram Granot (sax, Israel)

4 July 2012

“My name is Amiram. I’m 45 years old. I play saxophone since I was 12. I’m a professional Jazz musician and I played in a lot of festivals here in Israel and sometimes I go to Europe to perform there. I have 3 children. I live in Kyriat Tivon. I’m a professional musician.”

Participant: Tamara Lukasheva (vocals, Ukraine)

17 June 2012

Tamara was born in Odessa.Since she was a child she was surrounded with the sounds of music and that is no suprice,because both of her parents are musicians,sibcerely devoted to the music. From 2003-2007 Tamara was studying in the Musical College in Odessa (jazz vocal and piano) Already in spring of the 2008 the band [...]

Participant: Vladimir Bedzvin (cello, Ukraine)

17 June 2012

“I play cello in musical projects, participate in different musical festivals of Ukraine and abroad. I finished Kharkov Musical school and continued my education in Lvov National Musical Academy. As I have wide range of interests to different genres of contemporary music, I work with musicians multi-instrumentalists and play world-music, ethnical music, classics, gypsy jazz [...]

Participant: Michel Sajrawy (guitar, Israel)

12 June 2012

I am a guitarist, composer, producer and studio owner. I studied in London (UK) and have a master degree in composing for film music. I grew up listening to Oriental/Pop music in Nazareth and in my teens I became interested in Rock. Then in my mid-twenties I started listening to jazz. My major interest is [...]

Participant: Roksana Smirnova (piano, Ukraine)

9 June 2012

Roksana Smirnova is a pianist and composer. She was born in Odessa (Ukraine). At the age of 6 she began practicing music. When she was 13 years old her first performing debut took place at a jazz festival of L. Utyosov. Roksana graduated from the Odessa College of Arts and Culture as a jazz pianist, [...]

Participant: Alexander Melnychuk (piano, Ukraine)

8 June 2012

In 2007 he was the finalist of the competition Dodj Junior, marked out as the best keyboard player, two times the winner of the first place at Rostislav Kabanchenko's competition. He has graduated from the Donetsk Musical Academy, trained in the mainstream department. He is also a bachelor of classical departament of the Odessa Music [...]

Participant: Alexander Rujin (piano, Ukraine)

3 June 2012

I finished school named after prof. P. S. Stolyarskiy, Odessa. Currently I study at Kiev Musical Institute named after Reinhold Gli?re. I love jazz and football. I have been studying jazz since my early childhood, thanks to my father musician.

Participant: Pavel Ignatyev (piano, Ukraine)

1 June 2012

The world heard my first sounds on the 10th of December, 1973. Since then all my life is accompanied with music: my first steps, first success and discoveries. Maybe due to this evident child's talent my parents decided to develop it in myself. I was admitted to Kiev music school No5, then to Odessa music [...]

Participant: Vyacheslav Khavrenok (violin, Ukraine)

29 May 2012

“I graduated from the school of arts as a violinist. Besides school repertoire I played a lot of folk music and participated in rock groups. I studied in musical school. Since 2005 I have been interested in the concept of the worldmusic/ethnicfusion genres. In 2009 I gathered the ethno-jazz group, called "Suzir’ya" (ukr. Constellation), with [...]

Participant: Dmitriy Zemskiy (guitar)

22 May 2012

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Participant: Samvel Sarkisyan (drums, The Netherlands)

18 May 2012

I’ve been studying music since I was 4. I started playing drums when I was 7. I finished school named after Kim Nazaretov, when I was 10. Currently I am studying in the Netherlands (Groningen). I’ve played with such musicians as Peter Beets, Alex Sipiagin, Robin Eubanks, Igor Butman. I won the “Drummer Of Tomorrow” [...]

Participant: Mikhail Zuyev (sax, Ukraine)

16 May 2012

I play tenor-saxophone approximately for 5-6 years. I finished the Lugansk Regional College of Culture and Arts! Now I’m on my third year in the Lugansk State Academy of Culture and Arts in the academically saxophone department. I don’t play classical music at the moment!!! I have been a participant of summer jazz school in [...]

Participant: Andrey Mishakov (saxophone, Ukraine)

13 May 2012

Andrey Mishakov is Odessa saxophone player. Initially Andrey learned to play piano and alt-saxophone. But later he changed the instrument to tenor and in 1994 he entered into the Sumy higher college of art and culture. Since his second year he has been taking part in republican contests of wind instruments performers (Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson), [...]

Participant: Vitaly Fesenko (contrabass, Ukraine)

13 May 2012

Double-bass player, composer, arranger. Vitaliy is a participant of international festivals in Ukraine, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany (Festival “Fusion”), he won Grand-prix at the international ethnic-music festival in Poland (Bydgoszcz). Participated in projects with A. Prozorov, Y. Kuznetsov, V. Chekasin. Took part in classical music projects with S. Stadler, V. Repin, M. Fedotov. Vitaliy is [...]

Participant: Odei Al-Magut (trombone, The Netherlands)

5 May 2012
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Odei Al-Magut is a talented and charismatic trombonist, an alumnus of well-known jazz school named after Kim Nazaretov, Rostov-on-Don.

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