MJF2014 Participant: Ilya Korchagin (guitar, Russia)

8 October 2013
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Ilya is a musician, composer. He likes jazz-fusion and improvising very much. He released a solo album.
"I prefers playing guitar but also like different instruments in different ways" - says Ilya.[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Philip Mescheryakov (bass, Russia)

8 October 2013
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He made his debut at “Kvadrat” jazz-club in 1997. In 1998 he became a winner of the young performers contest “Autumn Marathon”, which was held by St. Petersburg jazz music Philharmonic. He performed as a member of different ensembles, representing various kinds of music, such as Alexey Kanunnikov jazz-band, big-band conducted by Sergey Gusityanskiy. In [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Eugeniy Kitayev (bass, Transnistria)

8 October 2013
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Eygeniy Kitayev is a Transnistrian bass-guitarist, arranger and composer, who performs music of different genres. Accompanied to such musicians as Alexey Kuznetsov (Russia), Vladidmir Danilin (Russia), Yuriy Kuznetsov (Ukraine), Lee Andrew Davidson (USA), John Daniel Walter (USA), Giovanni Falzone (Italy), Edith Steyer (Germany) etc. on Jazz sessions. He took part in the international project “Trigon(Moldova) [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Andrey Pletnev (sax, Russia)

8 October 2013
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Anrey Pletnev is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, one of the organizers and a conductor of jazz jam-sessions in the Yekaterinburg “EverJazz” club, the leader of Anrey Pletnev’s quintet, the conductor of the Afro-Cuban music orchestra “Muchachos Band”, the leader of the project “Old School”, which performs jazz music of 50-60th, the soloist of the big [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ofer Assaf (saxophone, the USA)

8 October 2013
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Ofer Assaf, jazz saxophonist, composer and educator, member of the Bernie Worrell Orchestra (P-Funk and Talking Heads) was born in Israel where he attended the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts dividing his time between music and dance. In 1991 he won the Israeli National Competition in Jazz and Contemporary Music for young musicians. [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Mark Rozen (sax, Israel)

8 October 2013
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«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 [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Yelena Syskova (piano, Ukraine)

8 October 2013
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A pianist, composer. She finished Ukrainian National Musical Academy named after P. I. Chaykovskiy in Kiev in a class of special piano and history of foreign music.

MJF2014 Participant: Robert Basuki Mulyarahardja (guitar, Indonesia)

8 October 2013
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"I am a jazz guitarist and educator from Jakarta, Indonesia. I graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Degree in Performance in 2008. In 2009, I returned to Jakarta and co-founded The Shadow Puppets Quartet. I've produced two albums with this group, which received positive feedbacks from listeners and critics in Indonesia. We have [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Musina Ebobisse (saxophone, France)

8 October 2013
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Musina Ebobisse and I play the tenor saxophone for 14 years.
I studied classical music at the Conservatory in Strasbourg for 8 years before entering the jazz department. I graduated from the conservatory last year. Since 7 years, I've been involved in different musical projects, playing jazz, reggae, funk and blues.
My influences in the jazz fields are John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano, Steve Coleman and many others.
I'm also member of the reggae band TND in Strasbourg.
(mor[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Yekaterina Vasileva (vocals, Germany)

8 October 2013
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Yekaterina Vasileva is a vocalist from Odessa (Ukraine). Since 4 years she has been engaged in music. Besides music she is also interested in cinema and literature. She finished Odessa College of Culture and Arts named after K. Dankevich in jazz piano. She is a prize-winner of numerous International and all-Ukrainian jazz festivals and contests. Currently she studies in Germany at Folkwang Univers[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Rustam Artikov (trumpet, Russia)

8 October 2013

My name is Rustam Artikov. I have a classical education. In my young days I heard the play of great jazzmen Dizzy Gillespie and Arturo Sandoval and fell in love with Jazz! That is why Jazz art became my life-work. I played in The Tour Concerts as a participant of wind instruments bands in the [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Vladislav Yakutko (piano, Russia)

8 October 2013
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"С детства занимаюсь музыкой (школа, Хабаровский колледж искусств) играю, пишу."

MJF2014 Participant: Alain Claude Mbena Ongolo (bass, Cameroon)

8 October 2013
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Alain Claude Mbena Ongolo (bass, Cameroon) My alias is Alino. I was born on the 17th of November of 1965 in Paris. At the momentI live in Yaound?,Cameroon. I play bass guitarandupright bass. I am interested in Jazz and Jazz-rock musicand Martial Art: Pride FC and MMA. Research in spiritual matters since 35 years...

MJF2014 Participant: Andrey Pokaz (piano, Ukraine)

8 October 2013
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He is an alumnus of the special musical school named after P. S. Stolyarskiy. He has graduated from the National Musical Academy named after A. V. Nezhdanova. He has been a postgraduate student there. At the moment he works at the department of special piano. Andrey has been a winner of different international contests as [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Illya Zyrianov (guitar, Russia)

8 October 2013
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Ilya Zyrianov is a young jazz-musician, the New Guitar School representative. He’s the prize-winner of the contests and the participant of the international jazz fests. He has appeared on stage and recorded together with famous musicians of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ilya Zyrianov's quartet represents a fusion of jazz, Latin American music and rock music. [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Doug Munro (guitar, the USA)

8 October 2013
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"Master musician and guitar virtuoso Doug Munro is an established veteran of the New York music scene. Since 1987 he has released eleven albums as a leader and has appeared on over 50 recordings as a sideman, producer, and arranger working with a diverse array of artists including Dr. John, Michael Brecker, and Dr. Lonnie [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Aziz Azizov (violin, Turkmenistan)

5 October 2013
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Aziz is a violinist graduated from conservatory. He works in the Turkmen State cultural center as the soloist of a variety orchestra. From early age he liked to improvise and experienced very strong influence of the violinist Jean Luc Ponty as well as more ingenious violinist Subramaniam Lakshminarayana. In his performing one can hear their influence and a manner as he like to combine a folk music[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Olugbenga [Adedeji] Adetayo (guitar, Greece)

5 October 2013
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Adedeji is a prolific singer, guitarist and composer, who was born and raised in one of the largest cities of West Africa, the vibrant and funky city of Lagos. A career in Music wouldn't have been a choice for him, as survival is usually meant to be the priority of most people Up there. However, music found its way to his heart at the early age of 5 before he joined the church choir. By the age of[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Clyde [Lightning] George (steelpan, Trinidad and Tobago)

3 October 2013
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Clyde Lightning George is a virtuoso steelpan player born in the birthplace of steelpan, Laventille, Trinidad. His high caliber of musicianship and his vast repertoire of music shows how deep his passion for music runs. Clyde George received his sobriquet “Lightning” because of his ability to quickly learn tunes. His teacher and inventor of the double tenor steel pan, Bertie Marshall, gave hi[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Kristian Borring (guitar, Denmark)

24 September 2013

Danish born Kristian Borring, now based in London, has in recent years built his name as a skillful guitarist with great melodic sense and sophisticated harmonic understanding, equally mastering the standard repertoire as well as original material “A guitarist of enormous technical ability who utilizes his considerable gifts thoughtfully and tastefully.” (THE JAZZ MANN). In [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Dmitriy Bondarev (trumpet, Ukraine)

24 September 2013
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Dmitriy Bondarev is a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, bright representative of Ukrainian and Russian jazz stages. He participated in numerous jazz festivals of Ukraine (Za-Jazz, Jazz in Kiev, Alfajazz etc.), Russia (Usadba.jazz, MuzEnergo etc.) and Poland (Ukrainian culture festival in). The winner of the Grand Prix of young jazz trumpeters contest named after Yevgeniy Savin [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Rit Xu (flute, Singapore)

24 September 2013
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Rit Xu have enchanted local and overseas audiences at events such as the annual Chingay parade, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, Spotlight Singapore at Cape Town and Bratislava, the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown Party and Grand Opening of the Marina Bay Sands. Currently at his third year of studies at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, He was the first Southeast Asian to win the United St[...]

MJF2014 Participant: Tesla Manaf (guitar, Indonesia)

24 September 2013
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"I'm a jazz guitarist born in Jakarta. I started by learning classical piano and guitar at the age of 9 and stayed digging it until 10 years later, but then decided to switch to jazz because I needed a convenient space where I can unleash my passion in total freedom. I was raised in 60's-70's [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Bobby Rice (trumpet, Canada)

24 September 2013
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I'm a music teacher in a university and I'm also a PhD student. I'm a composer/arranger/trumpeter and I have one album out (Bobby Rice “Sandunga”) and I have a Latin jazz big band which regularly features the great Cuban pianist Hilario Duran, among numerous other great Canadian jazz players.

MJF2014 Participant: Ilya Stepanov (drums, Belarus)

24 September 2013
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Hello everybody! My name is Ilya Stepanov! I finished Belarus Musical Academy as a drummer. Teach how to play drums in the musical college named after M. Glinka. I play all kinds of music. I love fusion most of all. Concerning hobbies, I like doing sports, composing electronic music. “It is very nice to gather [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Anton Zubarev (piano, Russia)

24 September 2013
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"My name is Anton Zubarev and I'm a jazz pianist from Yekaterinburg (Russia). I've been playing piano since childhood. I finished Ural Musical College on the base of Ural State Conservatory named after Musorgsky, and then Musical department of Ural Pedagogical Institute (class of Natalya Srodnych). My musical preferences are mainstream jazz and be-bop, contemporary [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Chen Meir (percussion, Israel)

24 September 2013
Chen studied in Havana (Cuba) in congas and percussion. In 2004 studied in West Africa. As a percussionist Chen has played and recorded with many Israeli artists as well as international like Roberto Rodriguez, Harman Olivera, Franky Vasquez, Harouna Dembele, Tomas Guei and many others. At the moment he is working in several very interesting projects. [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Denis Galushko (piano, Russia)

24 September 2013
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Jazz-pianist, composer. He was born in the family of musicians in Kurgan. Studied piano and saxophone at the music school . Entered the piano class of D. Shostakovich State Music Colledge in Kurgan. Then he enrolled in piano class at Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire in Ekaterinburg, where he has kept his music career going. Since [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Ilmir Yunusov (trombone, Russia)

24 September 2013
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I was born in Ufa in 2004. Finished St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts (mainstream department). Collaborated with a lot of ensembles, playing in different styles and genres. Currently I live in Kazan (Russia), participate and solo in Kazan philharmonic jazz-orchestra, concert actively in small bands (including author projects). The main thing for me [...]

MJF2014 Participant: Rafal Rokicki (piano, Poland)

24 September 2013
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afal Rokicki is a pianist, composer and arranger. His music is characterised by beautiful sound, gentle but forceful touch and rich dynamics. His captivating performances enchant with his melodic visual compositions that combine lyrical scandinavian jazz with the energy of the funk or latin styles.
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