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In memoriam Konstantin Nosov |
was born in Moscow in 1949. At the age of 14 he came in touch to music. 1965 he started his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory and became a member of different ensembles, e.g. with Anatoly Vapirov. He started his first trio.
After examination in 1970 he got a job at the Theatre for Musical Comedy in Kemerovo, West Sibiria. He continued to play Jazz and, very surprising, he studied medicine at the same time.
Immediately after finishing these studies he returned to Leningrad, worked in a hospital and in 1978 he founded a new duo with the bass player Vladimir Volkow, who in the age of 18 just began to discover Jazz. For 10 years they have been the Leningrad Duo, which found a lot of appreciation in the former Soviet Union. But only in 1988 they could release their first record and only in 1989 they could perform first time in the west.
Guyvoronski could travel to the west and perform there in the last years quite a few times; he is now member of the Arkhangelsk Workshop Ensemble and published his first Solo-CD: Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky FOR Sergey Kuryokhin.
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born 1960, is one of the most important bass players from Russia. He is a member of jazz-ensembles as well as of symphonic orchestres. Beside of Jazz he performs old music, here his instrument is the viola da gamba. He participated in many festivals
(e.g. Vilnius, JazzJamboree Warsaw, Europa Festival Jazz Noci, in Münster und Zürich). Concerts in Russia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and USA. He published records at Melodya and at Leo Records.
Vladimir Volkow is member of the ensemble Vershki da Koreshki, where musicians from Senegal, Tuva and Russia meet.
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Some unusual and innovative music can be heard at the Tavrichesky
Garden this weekend. The Avant-Garde Jazz Festival, opening on Saturday, will
include some of the most interesting musicians working in the jazz field.
... Trumpet player Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky will unveil a brand new project on the
second day of the festival.
According to the artist, it can hardly be defined as contemporary jazz.
Guyvoronsky says that it will sound like "super avant-garde," even to a jazz
ear.
Guyvoronsky, who has been important on the local music scene for the last two
decades, became famous mostly as part of a duo with double bass player Vladimir
Volkov.
Two years ago jazz experts voted him "Russia's Best Jazz Musician." He has also
written serious academic music, including ballets.
His performance at the Avant-Garde Jazz Festival will combine every musical
genre that he works in. The result promises to be really unusual.
For example, Guyvoronsky is going to try to adapt old baroque music to the
sound of a line-up which he describes as a "Gypsy tabor": tube, cello,
accordion, English horn, flute, trumpet and percussion. "These instruments are
difficult to go with one another timbre-wise, but the combination is
interesting; also appealing that it is difficult to play in such a line-up," he
said..
He hopes to use this music as background for the texts from the "Dove Book," a
collection of ancient Russian spiritual folk songs.
The Volkov and Guyvoronsky duo disbanded in 1993 by mutual consent, but the
festival's program gives hope for a one-time revival. Currently the two
musicians only come together for studio work and hope to record all the music
they wrote and performed since they started in the late 1970s. Their most
recent output is last summer's CD "Yankee Doodle Travels," based on material
from their US tour.
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Yankee Doodle, V.Gayvoronski /Trompete und V. Volkow / Solyd Records 1994, SLR 0022 (Russia)
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Kings & Cabbages, Moscow Composers Orchestra, Conducted by Vladimir Miller. Leo Records Laboratory, 1994, LEO LAB 005 (Great Britain) | |||
Life at City Garden, Moscow Composers Orchestra and Sainkho, directed by Vladimir Miller. CD 95027, U-Sound 1995 (Russia) |
Information and booking by: Nikolai Dmitriev, or by E-Mail
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