Mission JAB
Our mission is to be a key platform for promoting Russian jazz abroad and a centre of attraction for international and Russian jazz industry leaders.
Jazz Across Borders is an annual international forum-fest, held in Saint Petersburg. It is one of the largest professional jazz events in Europe, founded and presided by Igor Butman, the National Artist of Russia.
Jazz Across Borders`20 November 13-14 Saint Petersburg 2020
Our mission is to be a key platform for promoting Russian jazz abroad and a centre of attraction for international and Russian jazz industry leaders.
Trumpeter and composer, 9-time Grammy Award winner, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate...
Trumpeter and composer, 9-time Grammy Award winner, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate...
Trumpeter and composer, 9-time Grammy Award winner, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture from New Orleans. He has revitalized the popularity of jazz. Thanks to Wynton Marsalis, 1996 saw the release of the first ever jazz TV program. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. Wynton Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, at the age of 22, he became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical records. He repeated this distinction by winning jazz and classical Grammys again in 1984. In 1997, Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. After his first album was released in 1982, he won the DownBeat magazine surveys in the categories Musician of the Year, Trumpeter of the Year and Album of the Year. In 2017, Wynton Marsalis became one of the youngest inductees in
Jazz singer, 5-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves is a five-time Grammy Award winner and one of the leading singers in the world. Dianne began her career as a studio...
Jazz singer, 5-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves is a five-time Grammy Award winner and one of the leading singers in the world. Dianne began her career as a studio...
Jazz singer, 5-time Grammy Award winner
Dianne Reeves is a five-time Grammy Award winner and one of the leading singers in the world. Dianne began her career as a studio vocalist, working with Lenny White, Stanley Turrentine and Billy Childs, and later on she toured with Sérgio Mendes and Harry Belafonte. Reeve’s albums, released in the 90s on the Blue Note label, cemented her position as a unique vocalist. She was invited to perform at the closing of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Her album “Beautiful Life”, recorded with many stars, was awarded a Grammy Award in 2015 as the best jazz album. In April 2018, Reeves was honoured with a Jazz Master Award, the highest award for jazz artists in the USA, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Pianist, producer, winner of three Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award
Pianist, producer, winner of three Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award
Robert Glasper is the idol of the youth and the originator of the trendiest and most vibrant projects in modern jazz, R&B and hip-hop.
At the beginning of the new millennium, Robert Glasper released a number of successful solo albums on the major jazz label Bluenote Records. However, he achived real worldwide fame and won two Grammy Awards with the release of Black Radio (2012) and Black Radio 2 (2014) featuring such superstars as Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. Collaborating with hip-hop artists holds a special place in the musician’s work – he played on the most remarkable rap album of the new century, To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, collaborated as a sound producer with Mos Def and Bilal, and performed with Kanye West and Jay-Z. “Robert Glasper heads down the fraught path of hip-hop jazz and gets it right,” the Rolling Stone review of Black Radio says.
He is also known as a film score composer. Miles Ahead, the 2015 Miles Davis biopic, won Robert Glasper a Grammy. In 2017, he also received an Emmy Award for the track Letter to the Free, co-written with Common, from the soundtrack to 13th (Netflix).
In 2015, Glasper recorded the acoustic album Covered (Bluenote records) with his trio consisting of Vicente Archer (upright bass) and Damion Reid (drums). The album was their first acoustic release in eight years. “I missed the piano,” Glasper said simply, explaining his decision, because for the past five years he had focused almost exclusively on keyboards and electronic sound in his Robert Glasper Experiment project. However, jazz standards are far from being the only tracks on Covered, the tracklist including ingenious instrumental versions of songs by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, John Legend and Kendrick Lamar, as well as several Glasper’s originals
SAXOPHONIST, PRODUCER, PEOPLE’S ARTIST OF RUSSIA,
PRESIDENT OF IGOR BUTMAN MUSIC GROUP,
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MOSCOW JAZZ ORCHESTRA,
PRESIDENT OF JAB FORUM&FESTIVAL
SAXOPHONIST, PRODUCER, PEOPLE’S ARTIST OF RUSSIA,
PRESIDENT OF IGOR BUTMAN MUSIC GROUP,
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MOSCOW JAZZ ORCHESTRA,
PRESIDENT OF JAB FORUM&FESTIVAL
Igor Butman is justly considered as the top advocate of Russian jazz art in the world. In 1999 he founded his internationally acclaimed Igor Butman Orchestra (now — Moscow Jazz Orchestra), Quartet and Quintet, described by DownBeat Magazine as «an outfit of virtuosos». In past 20 years Igor Butman along with his bands toured dozens of countries and performed at the world’s biggest festivals.
Igor Butman released 17 albums both as a leader and co-leader, including Magic Land (Sony Classical) featuring Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci, Stefon Harris and Randy Brecker.
Igor Butman Music Group, led by Mr Butman, consists of the Igor Butman Jazz Club in Moscow, the Butman Music Records and the biggest Russian jazz concert agency IBMG, which runs 12 jazz festivals in Russia and represents the finest Russian artists abroad.
In 2016 Igor Butman was elected the President of the Russian Authors’ Society (Russian equivalent of ASCAP). In 2018 he became the initiator and co-artistic director (along with Herbie Hancock) of the International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg.
Since 2019 Mr Butman has been the head of the first Jazz Academy in thehistory of Russia.
Executive Director of Music Finland
Executive Director of Music Finland
Kaisa has been the Executive Director of Music Finland since June 2018. She has a passion to popularize the power of music and develop the international dialogue between premium content, innovative technologies and digital services.
Prior to Music Finland, Kaisa was the head of the Orchestra department at the Finnish National Opera Ballet. She was also the head of the music library and therefore responsible for copyright matters. Kaisa has been Finland’s project manager in large-scale digital opera projects co-funded by Creative Europe Programme.
Kaisa has also been a senior intendant at the Public Information Division of the Defense Command of Finland, an artist manager and partner at Finland’s largest artist management agency, Fazer Artist Management Inc, and an assistant at the Finnish Cultural Institute in Copenhagen.
Kaisa is a Master of Music and Master of Arts Management. She studied at the Sibelius Academy, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the University of Turku and at the Helsinki University of Applied Sciences. She also holds a piano diploma and is a qualified piano teacher.
Kaisa is a board member of NOMEX (Nordic Music Export), Boardman Management Study Group and Finland Promotion Board, coordinated by the Foreign Ministry of Finland.
Director of Amersfoort Jazz Festival, Musician
Director of Amersfoort Jazz Festival, Musician
The press wrote he is one of the rare tenor heroes of this time. His nickname ‘The Hurricane’ comes from his explosive and expressive playing. As a jazz-saxophone player, he has given over 2000 concerts around the world and played on more than 30 CD’s and DVD’s. He often performs as a special guest, as well as with his own combo. He is a member of the Round Midnight Orchestra and Saskia Laroo International Band.
Alexander ‘The Hurricane’ Beets presents the ‘Tribute to Stanley Turrentine’ with his quartet and the lady trumpet player Ellister van der Molen. Another project is called ‘Sandborn Sound’ where Alexander performs with his quartet and the alto saxophonist Rolf Delfos, bringing a musical tribute to the still living legend David Sanborn.
He has been the director of the Amersfoort Jazz Festival for 21 years. Amersfoort Jazz is an annual open air jazz festival in the Dutch city of Amersfoort. The festival has eight stages all over the old part of the city of Amersfoort, mainly on the historic squares. It is a large free three-day event, and it attracts over 100,000 visitors every year.
Singer, Composer, Trombonist, founder of Why DIY Music and Nova Productions
Singer, Composer, Trombonist, founder of Why DIY Music and Nova Productions
Nani Noam Vazana is the world’s first original Ladino artist. For 2020 she is booked to play on major stages: Richmond Folk Festival (USA), Montana Folk Festival (USA), representing Israel at the HUE Festival (Vietnam), Manchester Jazz Festival (UK) & 84 more dates Nani represented the Netherlands at the European Music Festival (Vietnam), performed at the Kennedy Center (USA), Jodhpur RIFF Festival (India), Jazzahead (Germany), North Sea Jazz (the Netherlands), Roccella Jazz (Italy), TEDx (the Netherlands) & hosted 3 WOMEX panels. The Dutch public broadcasting network (NPO) released a mini documentary about her musical work in 2018 Nani also composed music for BBC4 and NPO documentaries. Nani chairs the Amsterdam Artist Collective and is the founder of Why DIY Music and Nova Productions.
Awards:
PAIS Album Award, IL 2020
SENA Album Award, NL 2019
Arts Council England Premiere Award, UK 2019
Sephardic Music Award, ES 2017
iTunes Top-20 bestseller, NL 2015
ACUM Album Award, IL 2014
Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Berklee College of Music , and Executive Director o f
BerkleeNYC
Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Berklee College of Music , and Executive Director o f
BerkleeNYC
Stephen Webberis an Emmy-winning composer, musician, author, speaker, producer/engineer, and a leading innovator in music and the performing arts. Stephen currently serves as Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Berklee College of Music , and Executive Director of BerkleeNYC, where he oversees the iconic Power Station recording studios, hosting sessions for Wynton and Brandford Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, Jon Batiste, Jacob Collier, and hundreds of other artists. Recently, Stephen has been serving as A&Rconsultant for the Universal Music Group . He’s produced and engineered albums for a wide-range of artists, including a collaboration with DJ Premier and Nas for the Re:Generations Music Project, a film Stephen appeared in alongside Erica Badu, Skrillex, Mos Def, Pretty Lights, and the Doors.
Almost fifty thousand students are enrolled in Stephen’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) The Art of Music Production . In 2014, Webber founded the Music Production, Technology and Innovation Master’s program at Berklee’s Valencia Campus , where he also served as CTO. Music Production Analysis , Webber’s course for Berklee Music Online , won 2010’s international “Best Online Course Award” from the University Continuing Education Association.
Webber is the composer and turntable soloist of the Stylus Symphony , a groundbreaking work that combines a full orchestra with hip-hop, trip-hop and dubstep. Webber authored Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ, the first book to teach the turntable as a musical instrument, and he founded Berklee’s DJ and turntablism classes, which are considered to be the first to be offered by a college of music.
As a musician, Webber has toured China, Australia, Europe, Central America and the US, and has appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR and CBS, and in the New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine.
His innovative teaching has helped propel his students to the top of the international music charts-garnering multi-platinum records and Grammy awards in pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, K-Pop, classical and Latin categories.
A multi-instrumentalist who often contributes guitars, keyboards, banjo, mandolin and turntables to his productions, Stephen has recorded with Mark O’Connor, Kathy Mattea and Meshell Ndegeocello, and performed with Bela Fleck, Grandmixer DXT, and Emmylou Harris.
Webber has designed several recording studios, conducted film scores at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch, and authored dozens of articles and cover stories for Mix Magazine, Re-Mix and Electronic Musician.
Director of the Jazz Society of Turkey
Director of the Jazz Society of Turkey
Tuğçe Alpaslan has been the Director of the Jazz Society of Turkey since 2014 She seeks to support and promote various international jazz events including the International Ankara Jazz Festival, the Bodrum Jazz Festival, and the Jazz @ Museum. She is a member of Europe Jazz Network and operates cross-border cultural projects under the sponsorship of the European Union.
Tuğçe Alpaslan primarily focuses on managing the budgets, confirming line-ups, programming and popularizing the festivals. She is also a committed advocate of human rights: she promotes gender equality, women’s empowerment, social inclusion, environmental awareness, and explores the festivals’ themes accordingly.
Tuğçe ensures effective cooperation between partners, local authorities, universities, national associations and businesses in Turkey and beyond. She has worked with numerous organizations and institutions, such as the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Turkey, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the European Union, the United Nations, etc.
Finally, she has established herself as an expert in staff management by embracing positive team working to boost motivation and improve one’s skills and performances.
Head of international projects department at Igor Butman Music Group, executive producer of JAB forum&festival Russian and VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg
Head of international projects department at Igor Butman Music Group, executive producer of JAB forum&festival Russian and VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg
Gnesin Academy of Music and Moscow State Academy of Law alumnus Roman Khristyuk started working with Igor Butman in 2005 as PR manager of Le Club (now Igor Butman Club). In 2006-2008 he collaborated with the Independent newspaper in Moscow as a concert observer. Now Roman is the executive producer of the Jazz Across Borders forum&festival and the head of international projects at Igor Butman Music Group, adding to it he’s working on worldwide tours for Igor Butman and Moscow Jazz Orchestra. Among IBMG’s international projects are Sochi Jazz Festival (Sochi), Triumph of Jazz (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Jazz Seasons at Gorky Leninsky (Moscow region), Future of Jazz (Moscow), Sakhalin-Hokkaido Jazz (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sapporo), World Jazz Festival (Riga) and Skolkovo Jazz Festival (Skolkovo Innovation Center). Roman Khristyuk teaches PR and concert management at Music Management Faculty of Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. In 2018, as an executive producer, he led the working groupon the preparation and holding of the VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg.
Co-founder of the communication firm Doing Great Agency
Co-founder of the communication firm Doing Great Agency
The agency works with festivals STEREOLETO, ALFA FUTURE PEOPLE, Beat Film Festival; concerts of Jennifer Lopez, Boris Grebenshikov, СПЛИН, Монеточка, СБПЧ, IOWA, АИГЕЛ, etc; band releases by TOMM¥ €A$H, АИГЕЛ, НААДЯ, Гречка, КИНО; brands, such as Delivery Club, МЕГА, Yandex.Taxi and many others.
Executive Director of the Ural Music Night festival
Executive Director of the Ural Music Night festival
Natalia is Project Manager of New/Open Showcase Festival and Ural Music Camp, coordinator of the Music Industry Committee and Executive Director of the Ural Music Night festival
Founder of the SAMRO Foundation, IKS Cultural Consulting and the Concerts SA project
Founder of the SAMRO Foundation, IKS Cultural Consulting and the Concerts SA project
A highly regarded African cultural activist, arts manager/administrator, Andre le Roux was the Managing Director of the Southern African Music Rights Organization (SAMRO). He is the founder of the SAMRO Foundation, IKS Cultural Consulting and the Concerts SA project. He has served on a number of boards on South African arts and culture, as well as across the African diaspora landscape.
Journalist, critic, educator, Contributing Writer, DownBeat, JazzTimes
Journalist, critic, educator, Contributing Writer, DownBeat, JazzTimes
Allen Morrison is a music journalist, jazz critic, educator, and musician who has interviewed and profiled many of today’s leading figures in jazz and pop. The list includes Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Donald Fagen, Paul Simon, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, and many others. As a regular contributor to the jazz magazines DownBeat and Jazz Times, he has covered music festivals around the world, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Toronto Jazz Festival, and the MIMO Festival in Brazil. He has also written about music for The Guardian, Jazziz, Departures, and American Songwriter. Allen’s lectures on jazz history have been featured aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2, as part of the Cunard Insights lecture series, as well as at public libraries and other venues.
Allen combines his musical knowledge with a broad background in writing, public relations and executive communications in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. During his career Allen has been a magazine editor, a music critic, a music publicist for major recording artists, a government spokesman, and a communications director for politicians and major government agencies.
As a music publicist, he has created promotional materials and handled tour press for such major recording artists as The Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Dr. John, Trombone Shorty, Mavis Staples and many others. He has placed articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and other major publications. An accomplished jazz pianist, he has a passion for, and encyclopedic knowledge of, American popular music in all genres — pop, rock, jazz, country, blues, and other roots music.
Journalist, Editor of Jazz Forum magazine
Journalist, Editor of Jazz Forum magazine
Marek studied at the University of Warsaw. Journalist, music critic, since 2000 editor of “Jazz Forum” magazine, author of radio programs. Promoter, host of cultural events, music lover without genre boundaries, record collector.
Head of a concert Agency, founder of the Jazzfuel blog
Head of a concert Agency, founder of the Jazzfuel blog
After graduating with a jazz degree from the Guildhall School of Music, Matt Fripp started working as a booking agent and manager, first during 6 years at a London-based agency and then through his own company. During this time he has booked more than 1,000 international gigs for a range of artists.
Alongside his booking & management work, Matt runs the website Jazzfuel.com which shares career advice to jazz musicians around the world, via free articles, guides and industry interviews and also via professional services including press campaigns, consulting and online courses.
Founder and leading expert of music project development agency InSimple, lecturer at RMA business school
Founder and leading expert of music project development agency InSimple, lecturer at RMA business school
He was a music editor on channels Muz TV and NTV+, art director of the clubs Kult and Propaganda, and the director of the copyright department of the Zvooq music service.
He provided recruitment, staff training and consultations for such artists and companies as Nina Kraviz, Teslaboy, BlackStar Inc., Yulia Samoilova, Triangle Sun, Therr Maitz, Vlad Topalov, Google, Zvooq, Coub, Zion Records, Mubert, Galernaya20, iMixes, and many others.
He has organized more than 300 foreign artists’ tours in Russia and Russian DJs’ performances in the UK.
Rector of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, winner of the Russian Federation Government Award, Doctor in Art History, Full Professor
Rector of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, winner of the Russian Federation Government Award, Doctor in Art History, Full Professor
Since 2016, Alexnader Ryzhinsky has been acting as Deputy Chairman of the Federal Higher Education Methodological Association in Music, as Deputy Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the field of Art and Culture, and a member of the expert working group in the National Council for Professional Qualifications that represents higher education institutions of culture and art. Since 2013, he has been an expert of the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency, and has been periodically acting as the head of expert groups involved in state educational accreditation.
The Altro Coro Gnesins’ Ensemble of Contemporary Choral Music, established by Ryzhinsky in 2010, is now a renowned performer of avant-garde and post-avant-garde music in Russia and abroad. The Interkultur Foundation (Germany) has placed the Ensemble on the list of ten top-ranked choirs in the world.
Ryzhinsky is also known as the author of more than 50 research papers and books on studying and performing choral music of the 20th and 21st centuries, including his book “Choral Music of Arnold Schoenberg”.
Art-director of JAM Club, founder of concert agency Pro Jazz
Art-director of JAM Club, founder of concert agency Pro Jazz
Since 2016, he has organized more than 3,000 concerts in Andrey Makarevich’s JAM Club. He is one of the founders and the main organizer of the international jazz festival VR JAZZ Fest.
Anton organized jazz concerts of Andrey Makarevich, concerts of the American cellist Ian Maksin, and “no celebrity” sellout concerts in grand halls.
He is the teacher of a joint course by Timepad and Netology “How to Make Money out of Your Event”, the author of the webinars “Promoting Concerts”, a member of the jury of the New Open Showcase festival in Ekaterinburg, member of the jury of the jazz competition-festival Jazz Birds-2020.
Journalist, music reporter of the Kommersant newspaper, radio host, producer, teacher
Journalist, music reporter of the Kommersant newspaper, radio host, producer, teacher
Since 2003, he has been a music reporter for the Kommersant publishing house. He interviewed Paul McCartney, Sting, Patti Smith, U2, Ozzy Osbourne, Nick Cave, R.E.M., Iron Maiden, Metallica, Placebo, Depeche Mode.
In 2012-2013, he was the music producer in Urgant Late Night Show on Channel 1
He is a teacher at the innovative educational institution RMA Business School, where he specializes in Music Management, and at the School of Music Management in Saint Petersburg. In May 2011, as part of his RMA work, he implemented a student educational program in London with the UK music industry leaders.
Trumpeter, host of TV channel Russia-Culture, producer, Merited Artist of Tatarstan
Trumpeter, host of TV channel Russia-Culture, producer, Merited Artist of Tatarstan
Vadim is a winner of the Musician of the Year Award, according to Radio Jazz 89.1. He has recorded 5 solo albums — The Shadow of Your Smile (2010) Eilenkrig (2012), 1000/1 (2016, limited edition), Point of View (2017), and Newborn (2020). The album Eilenkrig peaked at №4 in Russian iTunes (Top 200 Jazz Chart) and at №1 in Armenia (Top 200 Tracks Armenia All Genre Chart).
Since 2016, he has been the art director of the Wind of Change Festival (Kazan, Russia). In January 2020, this project was staged in Carnegie Hall in New York.
Since 2019, Vadim has been the art director of the Jazz Summer with Eilenkrig festival in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
He was the host of the program Big Jazz on channel Russia-Culture (2013), and the co-host and bandleader of the show Dancing with the Stars on channel Russia-1 (2016). Since 2018, he has been the host of the original music program Shabolovka Club, 37 on channel Russia-Culture.
He is a member of the jury in the annual International Television Contest for Young Musicians The Nutcracker.
Commercial director of Radario
Commercial director of Radario
In 2014, she graduated from Saint Petersburg University with a degree in Political Sciences. She had started her professional career in culture and event planning in 2010 as the creative manager of the PMI Corporation’s project yatalant.ru. In 2012-2013 she was the art director of Geometria TV. In 2013, she joined Radario, an international developer of software for business automation in the cultural and entertainment industries, as the marketing and PR director. In 2014, she was one of the founders of the federal project Theater.Go that was designed to popularize electronic tickets and to attract the young Internet audience to theatres. Since 2017, Darya has been the commercial director of Radario.
Co-founder and CEO of the production company Team + 1 and the design studio High Five
Co-founder and CEO of the production company Team + 1 and the design studio High Five
Maxim graduated from Moscow University for the Humanities with a degree in Public Relations. In 2012, he founded the production company Team + 1 The company has been involved in the concerts of Madonna and Sting, opening of the Gogol Center, concert of Glenn Miller in the Moscow Performing Arts Center, immersive show the Returned, and the festivals Context. Diana Vishneva and Usadba Jazz.
Maxim teaches media planning and PR as part of Music Business and Entertainment Industry Management at RMA Business School.
Chief Executive of A&R ONErpm Russia
Chief Executive of A&R ONErpm Russia
Professional music manager, event planner, music video director.
Throughout her professional career she has been a music market expert for Universal Music Group; the general producer of Hajime Rec; the executive producer of Respect Production; the special project manager of Russian National Artist Konstantin Khabensky’s Charitable Organization. She teaches music management at Moscow Music School. She is a trustee in the charitable organization Save the Life and has a relevant experience in organizing special events.
CEO of Martinico Music & People, Director of the JazzCádiz Festival
CEO of Martinico Music & People, Director of the JazzCádiz Festival
Marina Fernández is the founder and CEO of Martinico Music & People, and the director of the JazzCádiz Festival since 2008 From 2014 to 2019, she was a music promoter at CAMM Jazz School.
She is also the president of the Andalusian jazz association Andajazz since 2015, director of the Andalusian jazz booking agency Martinico Music & People, director of the international Jazz showcase festival and conference Jazzahara, endorsed by the Government and AC / E Agency . She is a member of the National Jazz Festival Association Platforma Jazz España .
WBGO journalist
WBGO journalist
Always interested in jazz, in 1995 Ms. Anderson joined the staff of WBGO, Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz After Hours and Salon Sessions and Sunday Night Music Mix. She has authored four books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), The Little Red Book of Musicians’ Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012). How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005), the second edition is set to publish in November, 2019 As festival producer her work includes curator of the Newark Museum’s Jazz in the Garden Series and a Columbia University Community Scholar, class of 2017.
Managing Director Nasjonal Jazzscene – Victoria
Managing Director Nasjonal Jazzscene – Victoria
Music bookings coordinator of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London
Music bookings coordinator of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London
Ronnie Scott’s has remained a central constant in Paul’s lifelong love affair with jazz. He first visited the club to see the seemingly effortlessly swinging US tenor sax legend Zoot Sims in 1972 Since then, Paul has experienced a countless number of astonishing performances there from the likes of Stephane Grappelli, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Freddie Hubbard, Machito, Woody Shaw, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson, Anita O’Day and of course on many occasions the guv’nor himself Ronnie Scott – his jokes as well as his storming quintet. Over the past 10 years, Paul has made focused efforts to present European jazz in London, particularly collaborations with Norwegian, Czech, Latvian and Dutch-based musicians and is keen to further links with the vibrant global scene as well as the currently burgeoning UK scene. Paul has sat on the judging panel of the international Riga Jazz Stage contest for 5 consecutive years and visits overseas festivals regularly.
Before joining the Ronnie’s music bookings team in 2009, Paul worked in architecture and illustration but the pull of the music was so powerful that as a jazz fan and semi-pro singer he became more involved with live jazz promotion, particularly his longstanding residency at the Spice of Life, Soho (20 years). He also possesses extensive experience in specialist record retail (9 years at Ray’s Jazz), is an avid collector and unwavering champion of the music. In 2008 he received the All-Party Parliamentary Award for Services to Jazz.
artistic director of Duc de Lombards, producer of Nice Jazz Festival, head of TSF Jazz
artistic director of Duc de Lombards, producer of Nice Jazz Festival, head of TSF Jazz
Sébastien Vidal is is a central figure in French jazz.
He is the artistic director of the essential Parisian jazz club Le Duc des Lombards, where artists from France and around the world come to perform.
Abroad, he actively contributes to promoting and disseminating work from the French jazz scene, particularly in New York, where he organizes the annual French Quarter jazz festival.
Finally, he contributes more broadly to spreading jazz in his role as director of TSFJAZZ, a jazz radio station boasting more than 430,000 listeners daily. He also programs several mainstream jazz festivals. He has written for the magazine Jazzmag and for L’Humanité Dimanche. Today he writes for Jazz News. He is a member of the Académie du jazz.
Director of EverJazz Club
Director of EverJazz Club
She is the organizer of the following projects: EverJazz Club, EverJazz Centre, EverJazz.KIDS, EverJazz Contest, EverJazz International Festival; Ural Terra Jazz International Festival, Festival of Contemporary Jewish Culture, International Jazz Day in Yekaterinburg, Festival of Ballroom Pianists, etc.
She actively cooperates with all relevant entities, organizations, promoters and musicians.
She popularizes and promotes jazz on the ground, as well as leads various training and awareness-raising campaigns in the field. She also promotes and supports jazz among children, provides a setting for young musicians to realize their creative potential, and encourages their professional growth.
EverJazz Club founded in 2009, is a venue for daily concerts by professional music bands. It holds around 520 concerts annually, and is visited by some 30,000 people every year.
Irina is a jazz promoter and producer.
Program Director of Vladimir Potanin Foundation
Program Director of Vladimir Potanin Foundation
Oksana joined the Foundation’s team in December 2018 She manages the programs and projects in the field of culture. She worked in a range of non-profit organizations, such as charity foundation Volnoe Delo, New Eurasia Foundation, Institute for Law and Public Policy, Eurasia Foundation (USA), Center for Constitutional Studies at Moscow Public Science Foundation, and Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Oksana implements social and charitable projects in various fields of higher and secondary education, promotes entrepreneurship and local communities, and organizes various corporate events. She was responsible for the full project cycle: concept development, budgeting, expertise, preparation of information and reporting materials for internal and external use, organization of project events, communication with stakeholders, etc.
Oksana has a degree in philology from Moscow Pedagogical State University, MBA in marketing from Moscow international higher business school MIRBIS, and a degree in Social Management from Higher School of Economics.
Deputy Director of the Department of state support for art and folk art of the Ministry of culture of Russia
Deputy Director of the Department of state support for art and folk art of the Ministry of culture of Russia
Executive Director of the Digital education platforms division of Sberbank
Executive Director of the Digital education platforms division of Sberbank
Producer of education programs of the Presidential grands Foundation
Producer of education programs of the Presidential grands Foundation
Ekaterina graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 2005 In 2007 graduated from Higher courses of Screenwriters and Directors, Director’s workshop of Vladimir Khotinenko. From 2015 to 2017 she was a head of charity projects of the crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru and Director of e-commerce. Expert of the “Community” forum of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation. In 2017-2019 Founder and Director of the online store of goods for social entrepreneurs “Four”.
Director of educational programs in the Sphere of Culture and Art of Department of Culture of Moscow
Director of educational programs in the Sphere of Culture and Art of Department of Culture of Moscow
Musician, pianist, Director of educational programs in the Sphere of Culture and Art of Department of Culture of Moscow, Dean of the faculty of Management of socio-cultural projects in the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Master of Arts of University of Manchester.
CEO of tMotion Production Company
CEO of tMotion Production Company
Max is a professional saxophonist. He graduated from the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music and played in the orchestra conducted by Georgy Garanian.
In 2002, he joined Igor Butman Production Centre as the PR manager of the legendary Le Club.
From 2005 to 2008, he was the executive producer of the Stories in Details program on STS TV channel. In 2008, he founded the production company tMotion that organizes and promotes various events.
He promoted concerts of such stars as Carlos Santana, GAROU, Kenny G, Chris Botti, David Sanborn, Mario Biondi, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Candy Dulfer, Freddy Cole, Stanley Clark, Jane Monheit, Carla Bruni, Hibla Gerzmava, Yolka, and such projects as Usadba Jazz Festival 2016, French cabaret Lido, Philip Treacy’s hats exhibition, Moscow Symphony Orchestra Russian Philharmonic, etc.
Max Timoshin is the founder of Jazz in Motion — a series of jazz concerts by Russian and foreign artists. For more than 10 years, this project has been held at various Moscow venues: art-cafe Durov, Scenario Cafe, the St. Regis Moscow Hotel, etc.
Co-owner of the PR Agency “Bedush & Marennikova”
Co-owner of the PR Agency “Bedush & Marennikova”
PhD in art history, graduated from the Moscow state Conservatory, MBA at the Russian-German Higher School of Management at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
The Agency’s portfolio includes work with major music and non-music festivals (Alfa Future People, Usadba Jazz, Bosco Fresh Fest, Sound Up, Rock over the Volga, wild Mint, Moscow Urban Forum, Moscow Flower Show, Inspiration for VDNH and many others), leading Moscow theaters and museums, concerts of Russian and International artists.
Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club
Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club
Araik is producer of BazzDay Ferstival, FuzzionDay Festival, Tilli Milli Jazz Festival and City Jazz Festival, co-founder the Jazzist media blog. He is Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club.
Editor-in-chief of Jazz.ru
Editor-in-chief of Jazz.ru
His career in music journalism started in early 1990s, he broadcasted as DJ and special shows on-air host on several radio stations in Moscow, wrote about music for magazines and newspapers, provided copy and voice-over for TV shows about music, and edited jazz news for a news agency. In 1998, he was invited to Russia’s newborn Jazz Web outlet, Jazz.Ru, as managing editor; since 2006, he is also the publisher at Jazz.Ru Magazine.
He contributed for several jazz magazines in the U.S. and in Europe (DownBeat, AllAboutJazz.Com, Jazz Forum, Jazz.Pt, Jazzthetik etc.) Since 2014, he is a board member at the Russian Jazz research center in Yaroslavl. He also serves as coordinator of Europe Jazz Media, the ring of European jazz magazines.
Moshkow wrote several books in Russian on jazz and African American music, most notably Jazz Industry in America and The Blues, Introduction to the History. He also authored chapters on the history of jazz in Russia for Pearson’s Discover Jazz (2011) and for The History of European Jazz The Music (2017).
Senior Advisor to the Theatre Division in the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art of the Russian Ministry of Culture
Senior Advisor to the Theatre Division in the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art of the Russian Ministry of Culture
General Manager of Europe Jazz Network
General Manager of Europe Jazz Network
Giambattista Tofoni started his career as a musician and switched to the production field in 1985. He organised more than 2000 concerts at the most important Italian festivals (Ravenna, Verona, Mantova, Crossroads, TAM, La Biennale in Venice, etc.). In 2010, he became a Board member of I-Jazz, the Italian Jazz Federation. He is one of the founding members of EJN in 1987 and has been its General Manager since 2010. He is currently responsible for EJN’s vision, strategy and work program; overseeing the work of the staff/ focal points/working groups; representing EJN and its interests; leading on relationships with other European cultural networks and other relevant bodies.
General director of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic
General director of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic
In June 2018, according to the results of an open competition,Yevgeny Stodushny assumed the post of General Director ofthe Krasnoyarsk Regional Philharmonia — one of the largestconcert organizations beyond the Urals. From 2007 to 2018, heworked as Deputy Director for Planning Concerts and FinancialActivities at the Virtuosi of Moscow State Chamber Orchestra.Alongside his professional activity, from 2010 to 2012, heunderwent an advanced training course at the DeVos Instituteof Arts Management (Washington, USA), where he trained in themarketing and fundraising departments of the Kennedy Centerfor the Performing Arts.Being invited to the Moscow Art Theater School Studio,Evgeny wrote and taught the course «Production Activity in theMusic and Concert Sphere». He participates as an expert in theseminars of the Union of the Concert Organizations of Russia.
international projects and international booking coordinator at Kozlov Club and City Jazz Festival
international projects and international booking coordinator at Kozlov Club and City Jazz Festival
In 2005, she joined the ArtMania agency as a press officer and coordinator of music projects. In2007, she became the Music Director. For more than ten years, she has been the program managerfor the Usadba Jazz Festival in Moscow and other cities. She also selects and books internationalartists for the agency’s projects, such as Le Jazz Festival, City Jazz and Moscow Jazz Festivals, Festivalof Korean Culture in Russia, and Bossa Nova Festival. Throughout her ArtMania years, Elenaorganized concerts and tours for such artists as the British jazz star Jammie Cullum, bass playerRichard Bona (USA), double bassist Avishai Cohen (Israel), Melody Gardot (USA), Pink Martini (USA),legendary guitarist John McLaughlin (UK), Jean Scofield (USA), Branford Marsalis (USA), Earth Windand Fire Experience feat. Al Mckay (USA), and many others. She organized the cabaret Crazy Horse(France) and the cabaret Tropicana (Cuba) for private parties.Since she joined Kozlov Club in the autumn of 2019, they have implemented a number ofinternational projects, including workshops by Richard Bona, Robert Glasper, and Avishai Cohen, aswell as various concerts.
Program Director of Jazz Across Borders
Program Director of Jazz Across Borders
In 2010 she graduated from the State University of Management with a degree inManagement in cinema and TV. In 2013, she received her PhD in Economics. She worked indifferent fields such as film-making (projects of director Ilya Khotinenko), television (RussiaToday channel) and tourism (the Ritz Carlton hotel).Dina started her business career in music as the manager of Jazz Dance Orchestra. In 2016,she founded Magnetophone Music Agency. Co-producer of the annual open air festival Cityof Jazz at Aptekarsky Garden of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University.Programm Director of Jazz Across Borders forum & festival within St. PetersburgInternational Cultural Forum. Programm Director of International Jazz Day in St. Petersburgin 2018
Pianist, member of the LRK TRIO, member of the Moscow Union of composers
Pianist, member of the LRK TRIO, member of the Moscow Union of composers
A graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston), winner of the Montreux piano competition(Switzerland), Made in New York Jazz competition (USA), and winner of a special award fromBillboard magazine.
SAXOPHONIST, PRODUCER, PEOPLE’S ARTIST OF RUSSIA,
PRESIDENT OF IGOR BUTMAN MUSIC GROUP,
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MOSCOW JAZZ ORCHESTRA,
PRESIDENT OF JAB FORUM&FESTIVAL
SAXOPHONIST, PRODUCER, PEOPLE’S ARTIST OF RUSSIA,
PRESIDENT OF IGOR BUTMAN MUSIC GROUP,
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MOSCOW JAZZ ORCHESTRA,
PRESIDENT OF JAB FORUM&FESTIVAL
Igor Butman is justly considered as the top advocate of Russian jazz art in the world. In 1999 he founded his internationally acclaimed Igor Butman Orchestra (now — Moscow Jazz Orchestra), Quartet and Quintet, described by DownBeat Magazine as «an outfit of virtuosos». In past 20 years Igor Butman along with his bands toured dozens of countries and performed at the world’s biggest festivals.
Igor Butman released 17 albums both as a leader and co-leader, including Magic Land (Sony Classical) featuring Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci, Stefon Harris and Randy Brecker.
Igor Butman Music Group, led by Mr Butman, consists of the Igor Butman Jazz Club in Moscow, the Butman Music Records and the biggest Russian jazz concert agency IBMG, which runs 12 jazz festivals in Russia and represents the finest Russian artists abroad.
In 2016 Igor Butman was elected the President of the Russian Authors’ Society (Russian equivalent of ASCAP). In 2018 he became the initiator and co-artistic director (along with Herbie Hancock) of the International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg.
Since 2019 Mr Butman has been the head of the first Jazz Academy in thehistory of Russia.
Head of international projects department at Igor Butman Music Group, executive producer of JAB forum&festival Russian and VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg
Head of international projects department at Igor Butman Music Group, executive producer of JAB forum&festival Russian and VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg
Gnesin Academy of Music and Moscow State Academy of Law alumnus Roman Khristyuk started working with Igor Butman in 2005 as PR manager of Le Club (now Igor Butman Club). In 2006-2008 he collaborated with the Independent newspaper in Moscow as a concert observer. Now Roman is the executive producer of the Jazz Across Borders forum&festival and the head of international projects at Igor Butman Music Group, adding to it he’s working on worldwide tours for Igor Butman and Moscow Jazz Orchestra. Among IBMG’s international projects are Sochi Jazz Festival (Sochi), Triumph of Jazz (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Jazz Seasons at Gorky Leninsky (Moscow region), Future of Jazz (Moscow), Sakhalin-Hokkaido Jazz (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sapporo), World Jazz Festival (Riga) and Skolkovo Jazz Festival (Skolkovo Innovation Center). Roman Khristyuk teaches PR and concert management at Music Management Faculty of Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. In 2018, as an executive producer, he led the working groupon the preparation and holding of the VII International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg.
Founder and leading expert of music project development agency InSimple, lecturer at RMA business school
Founder and leading expert of music project development agency InSimple, lecturer at RMA business school
He was a music editor on channels Muz TV and NTV+, art director of the clubs Kult and Propaganda, and the director of the copyright department of the Zvooq music service.
He provided recruitment, staff training and consultations for such artists and companies as Nina Kraviz, Teslaboy, BlackStar Inc., Yulia Samoilova, Triangle Sun, Therr Maitz, Vlad Topalov, Google, Zvooq, Coub, Zion Records, Mubert, Galernaya20, iMixes, and many others.
He has organized more than 300 foreign artists’ tours in Russia and Russian DJs’ performances in the UK.
Art-director of JAM Club, founder of concert agency Pro Jazz
Art-director of JAM Club, founder of concert agency Pro Jazz
Since 2016, he has organized more than 3,000 concerts in Andrey Makarevich’s JAM Club. He is one of the founders and the main organizer of the international jazz festival VR JAZZ Fest.
Anton organized jazz concerts of Andrey Makarevich, concerts of the American cellist Ian Maksin, and “no celebrity” sellout concerts in grand halls.
He is the teacher of a joint course by Timepad and Netology “How to Make Money out of Your Event”, the author of the webinars “Promoting Concerts”, a member of the jury of the New Open Showcase festival in Ekaterinburg, member of the jury of the jazz competition-festival Jazz Birds-2020.
WBGO journalist
WBGO journalist
Always interested in jazz, in 1995 Ms. Anderson joined the staff of WBGO, Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz After Hours and Salon Sessions and Sunday Night Music Mix. She has authored four books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), The Little Red Book of Musicians’ Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012). How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005), the second edition is set to publish in November, 2019 As festival producer her work includes curator of the Newark Museum’s Jazz in the Garden Series and a Columbia University Community Scholar, class of 2017.
Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club
Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club
Araik is producer of BazzDay Ferstival, FuzzionDay Festival, Tilli Milli Jazz Festival and City Jazz Festival, co-founder the Jazzist media blog. He is Art director and managing director of Kozlov Club.
Editor-in-chief of Jazz.ru
Editor-in-chief of Jazz.ru
His career in music journalism started in early 1990s, he broadcasted as DJ and special shows on-air host on several radio stations in Moscow, wrote about music for magazines and newspapers, provided copy and voice-over for TV shows about music, and edited jazz news for a news agency. In 1998, he was invited to Russia’s newborn Jazz Web outlet, Jazz.Ru, as managing editor; since 2006, he is also the publisher at Jazz.Ru Magazine.
He contributed for several jazz magazines in the U.S. and in Europe (DownBeat, AllAboutJazz.Com, Jazz Forum, Jazz.Pt, Jazzthetik etc.) Since 2014, he is a board member at the Russian Jazz research center in Yaroslavl. He also serves as coordinator of Europe Jazz Media, the ring of European jazz magazines.
Moshkow wrote several books in Russian on jazz and African American music, most notably Jazz Industry in America and The Blues, Introduction to the History. He also authored chapters on the history of jazz in Russia for Pearson’s Discover Jazz (2011) and for The History of European Jazz The Music (2017).
General Manager of Europe Jazz Network
General Manager of Europe Jazz Network
Giambattista Tofoni started his career as a musician and switched to the production field in 1985. He organised more than 2000 concerts at the most important Italian festivals (Ravenna, Verona, Mantova, Crossroads, TAM, La Biennale in Venice, etc.). In 2010, he became a Board member of I-Jazz, the Italian Jazz Federation. He is one of the founding members of EJN in 1987 and has been its General Manager since 2010. He is currently responsible for EJN’s vision, strategy and work program; overseeing the work of the staff/ focal points/working groups; representing EJN and its interests; leading on relationships with other European cultural networks and other relevant bodies.
Program Director of Jazz Across Borders
Program Director of Jazz Across Borders
In 2010 she graduated from the State University of Management with a degree inManagement in cinema and TV. In 2013, she received her PhD in Economics. She worked indifferent fields such as film-making (projects of director Ilya Khotinenko), television (RussiaToday channel) and tourism (the Ritz Carlton hotel).Dina started her business career in music as the manager of Jazz Dance Orchestra. In 2016,she founded Magnetophone Music Agency. Co-producer of the annual open air festival Cityof Jazz at Aptekarsky Garden of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University.Programm Director of Jazz Across Borders forum & festival within St. PetersburgInternational Cultural Forum. Programm Director of International Jazz Day in St. Petersburgin 2018
Pianist, member of the LRK TRIO, member of the Moscow Union of composers
Pianist, member of the LRK TRIO, member of the Moscow Union of composers
A graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston), winner of the Montreux piano competition(Switzerland), Made in New York Jazz competition (USA), and winner of a special award fromBillboard magazine.
Executive director of Colisium International music convention
Executive director of Colisium International music convention
Since 2006 Sergey Babich has been a member of the management team of PMG Concert agency, specializing in organizing concerts and festivals of rock bands. In 2009-2010 he worked as a producer at Larisa LUSTA company. In 2010 he became the artistic director of Tsarskoye Selo concert hall.
In 2011, Sergei created his own event agency InnerSpace and became the main organizer of the concert and business program of the Moscow musical exhibition NAMM Musikmesse Russia.
Since 2013, he has been the executive director of the first industry project Colisium International music convention, focused on the development of the music and concert industry. Within four years of Colisium’s existence, Sergey held 20 conferences with more than 12,000 delegates from 22 countries and more than 2500 industry experts as speakers.
Executive director, Head of Rainy Days Records
Executive director, Head of Rainy Days Records
Evgeny Petrushansky is a graduate of the Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University (St. Petersburg). He has been working as an independent documentary photographer for more than ten years, writing for print and online media abroad and in Russia. For eight years Evgeny has been working as a guide-interpreter with one of the main companies in St. Petersburg which specializes in walking and cycling tours.
In 2017, together with friends and like-minded colleagues, he founded the independent jazz label Rainy Days Records. The main idea of creating the label is to support those who think as modern people, without limiting themselves to certain frames and clichés, and to create comfortable conditions for the development or realization of their musical ideas. An important stage in the development of the label was the release of the debut recording of the Russian drummer Sasha Mashina “Outsidethebox”, as well as the Rainy Days Jazz Fest festival, which was held in St. Petersburg and Moscow in August 2018 and became the harbinger of the music season both for jazz lovers and musicians.
Editor-in-Chief, Communication Holding InterMedia.
Editor-in-Chief, Communication Holding InterMedia.
Yevgeny Safronov worked as a consultant and analyst at the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. The Head and a participant of the working groups on cultural research and the preparation of legislation at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and other organizations. He is the author of more than two hundred analytical publications on organizational and economic issues of the cultural sphere in the leading Russian media, a regular speaker of national and international conferences and educational programs.
Yevgeny Safronov is the founder and the director of several mass media organizations (the magazine and the news agency «Tourne», the InterMedia news agency, the Russian musical yearbook, the magazine and the television channel 1Rock, etc.).
Producer and director of the Jazz May Festval, enterpriser
Producer and director of the Jazz May Festval, enterpriser
In 2010, Oleg Rubtsov decided to return to Penza and open an intellectual literature store called “Vpereplete. Other books” (2010-2015). Among the writers who spoke to the audience of the store, Dmitry Bykov, Irina Khakamada, Vera Polozkova and others. Since 2010, Oleg has been involved in organizing major urban cultural events, including the Humanitarian Forum “Searching for The Province” (2013- 2014), the Ivan Mozzhukhin Film Featival “A Male Role”.
Oleg developed a project of the Penza Book Fair, in 2013-2015, he worked as its producer and director. The fair was held with the support of the Government of the Penza Region (2013) and the Administration of the city of Penza (2014) in the framework of the Humanitarian Forum “Searching for The Province”. In 2015, it gained the status of an autonomous event. In 2012, Oleg joined the organizing committee of the International Jazz May Music Festival, established by the Department of Culture and Archives of the Penza Region. Since 2014, he has been the producer and director of the festival.
Musician, head of jazz department at Musorgsky Music College
Musician, head of jazz department at Musorgsky Music College
In 2009 along with Kirill Bubyakin, Sergey put together the Jazz Philarmonic Orchestra featuring artists from the State Philarmonie of Jazz Music. He collaborated with Igor Butman, David Goloshyokin, Valery Ponomarev, Ilya Lushtak, Jean-Loup Longnon, Sharon Clark, Steve Grossman, Jason Brown, Clifford Barbaro and Matts Holmquist, as well as with a famous Russian rock band Aquarium.
He wrote arrangements for Greg Ruvolo Big Band, Class Center Big Band, JFC Potluck Big Band and Kazan Philarmonie Jazz Orchestra. Since
2011 he has been the head of jazz studies at the Mussorgsky Music College and the leader of the Mussorgsky Jazz Orchestra. Jazz education section speaker at Jazz Across Borders 2017 and an active participant in events dedicated to the International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg.
Jazz drummer, music producer of Rainy Days Records, music director of Rainy Days Jazz Fest
Jazz drummer, music producer of Rainy Days Records, music director of Rainy Days Jazz Fest
Sasha Mashin is one of the most extraordinary and talented Russian jazz drummers. He was born and began his professional career in Leningrad. In 1991, he joined the legendary Kvadrat jazz club. From 1995 to 1998, Sasha was a regular member of the Igor Butman Quartet. Having moved to Moscow in 1998, he has been constantly collaborating with the best jazz musicians in the country. Also he took the part in the creation of the MocGorTrio band.
In 2005, Sasha went to New York to participate in the Open World Educational Program. Since 2008, he has been actively touring in Russia and Europe with the best Russian and Western musicians. Since 2017, the Yamaha company has been presenting Sasha Mashina as its endorser.
In 2018, Sasha released the debut album “Outsidethebox”, recorded with the participation of Alex Sipyagin and Zhenya Strigalev. The record became one of the most important events of the year in the jazz life of Russia. In the same year, he became the music producer of the Rainy Days Records label and the music director of the Rainy Days Jazz Fest.
Owner and CEO of Justjazz agency
Owner and CEO of Justjazz agency
Catherine Mayer has been in the business all of her life. Born into a family of Jazz lovers, her dad, Gerd Mayer, was a pioneer in the German Jazz Scene after World War 2. Her father made a business out of his passion and founded Konzertdirektion Gerd Mayer/Just Jazz Int officially in 1960. He brought mainly US artists into the Post War Europe. In her childhood, Catherine had the honor to meet a lot of the greats in Jazz as Ella Fitzgerald or Teddy Wilson, Slam Steward, Buddy Tate and many, many more.
When her father passed about 20 years ago, she took over the family business. Her first tour was with the legendary Illinois Jacquet Big Band. Her company Just Jazz International has grown into one of the finest concert agencies and artist management companies based in Europe, booking tours for Take 6, Bob James, The Manhattan Transfer, Till Bronner, Patti Austin, Ivan Lins and many more internationally acclaimed artists
Artistic Director of the Koktebel Jazz Party International Festival
Artistic Director of the Koktebel Jazz Party International Festival
Mikhail Ikonnikov has been working on radio since 1989. He is one of the founders of Radio 101, radio host, author and presenter of the program “Jazz. Private collection”. In 1998, he won the Popov Prize in the nomination “Specialized Program” for the program “Jazz. Private collection”.
He worked on Radio ROKS, Radio Prestige, Radio NSN, Radio 1 and Radio Mayak. Since 2014, she has been working as an author and host of a music section on Radio Sputnik in Crimea and Music Director of Radio RT in Sochi. Since August 2018, he has held the position of the program director of Radio Jazz.
Since 2014 – Art Director of the Koktebel Jazz Paty International Festival in Crimea.
Lawyer, CEO of iPpro legal company
Lawyer, CEO of iPpro legal company
Alexander is a Patent Attorney, Eurasian Patent Attorney, member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), and the CEO of iPpro legal company. iPpro company collaborates on copyright issues with famous music groups and artists: Kylie Minogue, Therr Maitz, Alexey Kozlov Club, Music Parking, InSimple and others. iPpro company collaborates with famous music groups and artists on copyright matters: Kylie Minogue, Therr Maitz, Alexey Kozlov Club, Music Parking, InSimple and others. Concurrently with the above-mentioned activities, Mr Leonov worked as a senior lecturer in economic law at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics from 2006 to 2014.
Event director, project manager at the event-agency Guild of Masters
Event director, project manager at the event-agency Guild of Masters
Anastasia graduated from the faculty of theatrical and traditional forms of activity of Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture with a major in directing in 2002. She has been the director and project manager at the full-service event agency Guild of Masters since 2005.
Over the years, she created and organized many projects of different types and scales: from official and private to city events, from private parties to multi-thousand festivals. Above this, Anastasia works with other agencies as a project manager in different cities of Russia. She has been a drama teacher at the Young Spectator’s Theatre since 2008. In 2014, Anastasia graduated from the School of Business Trainers, and became a certified business coach major in the development of creative thinking.
Producer and Events Organizer of business and creative projects
Producer and Events Organizer of business and creative projects
In 2000, Andrey Soldatkin created the RUCEA group of companies which started to be involved in the management of foreign and Russian artists and the organization of events in Russia and around the world. For 18 years, the company has organized more than 1,500 various events and performances of the artists including David Guetta, Craig David, Roisin Murphy, De Phazz, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Paul Oakenfold, Tito & Tarantulla and many others.
Andrey held his own events for thousands of people in partnership with the Moscow Gaudi Arena, participated in organizing youth festivals “Godskitchen” for the British promotional company Angel Music Group. He participated in organizing press-junket tours of Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, James Cameron and many other Hollywood stars in Moscow. Andrey is the concert organizer of Anton Rumyantsev, Anna Buturlina, Daniil Kramer and other Russian artists, the General Producer and the creator of the scientific and educational festival “Pulkovsky Meridian”.
MARCUS STAGE Concert Agency Managing Partner
MARCUS STAGE Concert Agency Managing Partner
Anna Bersudskaya has worked as a top manager of system integration, production and high-tech equipment sales, promotion and advertising industries more than 15 years.
Over the past few years, she became deeply involved in the restaurant business. And she is currently a start up, restaurant projects development and promotion consultant.
Anna along with her associates founded the MARCUS STAGE concert agency in 2018. Today, MARCUS STAGE agency manages, promotes and launches PR campaigns for concerts and other music events. The Agency is the official PR partner of the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater, and works with most popular jazz and classical musicians.
Head of Creative Projects and Product Integrations at OK, Mail.ru Group
Head of Creative Projects and Product Integrations at OK, Mail.ru Group
In 2008, Anton became a co-founder of the startup be-in.ru, where he was in charge of the St. Petersburg’s media development in Moscow and Russian regions, and ran the department of commerce and special projects from 2008 to 2016.
He launched a series of Susanin local guide travel guides. Travel books on some popular cities sponsored by tourism committees and companies are published every year. In 2016, he joined the business development team of the OK social network (part of the Mail.ru Group holding), where he started working on creative projects in the fields of culture and lifestyle. Currently, Anton is head of creative projects and product integration at OK, Mail.ru group. In 2018, he came up with and set up the project We are off to the museum whereby virtual exhibitions were launched together with the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Russian Museum and others. There were five museums exhibition called Flemish Masters in the northern region of Belgium in 2019. Anton has become a producer of the OK Live bands young musicians contest since 2019.
Bassist for the jazz band LRK Trio
Bassist for the jazz band LRK Trio
He studied under the prominent bass player Anatoly Sobolev, performed in New York with saxophonist Anatoly Gerasimov and with the Igor Bril ensemble at the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada. In the early 2000s as part of the Yakov Okun trio, he worked with many American artists on the Russian stage: saxophonists Donny Maccaslin, Craig Handy, Johnny Griffin, trumpet player Alexander Sipyagin and others
Independent organizer and programmer
Independent organizer and programmer
Arlette Hovinga has been roaming the international jazz scene for a number of years. First as a PA to Motown legends like The Four Tops on their EU tours and working alongside stars like Jeff Goldblum and Mary Wilson. Later she became involved in the organizing of multiple jazz events in The Netherlands such as Jazzfestival Delft, North Sea Round Town and Jazz in de Gracht.
Head of JIVE Group production center, general producer and organizer of Kazan LIVE, pianist, composer
Head of JIVE Group production center, general producer and organizer of Kazan LIVE, pianist, composer
Valery Korotkov is a Laureate of International Contests and Festivals, bandleader, arranger and pianist of JIVE, one of the oldest jazz bands of Tatarstan, as well as indie Tatar music groups A-BAND and New Моң. Adding to it he has worked as a pianist and concertmeister of the rhythm section in jazz orchestras in Russia, the USA and Israel since 1993.
Adding to being busy as a musician, Mr Korotkov is the general producer and organizer of International Festival of Contemporary Culture Kazan LIVE (ex-Kremlin LIVE). Valery was awarded the Russian President Medal for organizing the cultural program of the World Summer Universiade in Kazan.
Founder and producer of The International Blues Festival Bridges
Founder and producer of The International Blues Festival Bridges
In 2003, Vladimit started a band called The Jumping Cats, which recorded several albums, successfully performed in Russia, Europe and even in Kathmandu.
Vladimir started his activities as a promoter in 2010, building tours for American and European blues artists. Many blues artists have been on tour in Europe and Russia over the past 10 years at his invitation: Bob Margolin, John Nemeth, Kirk Fletcher, Ina Forsman, JW Jones, Aki Kumar, Johnny Burgin, Ina Forsman, Laura Chavez and others. In 2018, Vladimir founded Bridges Festival, its participants have included winners of Blues Music Awards.
Soviet and Russian musician and musicologist, jazz expert
Soviet and Russian musician and musicologist, jazz expert
Alumnus of Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music and Leningradsky University, Vladimir became famous in his student years, leading a jazz orchestra, arranging music and promoting jazz. In 1960 along with Valery Mysovsky he published the first book about jazz in Russian, in 1966 he became a lecturer of Lenconcert state agency. He orgazined the first ever jazz series of concerts not only at the concert halls of Leningrad, but at the Philharmonic Halls of many cities of the Soviet Union as well. In the 1990s he lectured abroad (USA, Germany, Denmark, Austria), and became a successful music manager — he toured Europe with many Russian and Ukrainian bands and Russia — with internationally acclaimed artists including Count Basie orchestra, John McLaughlin trio, Dave Brubeck quartet, etc. Vladimir is the author of 10 books about jazz, including first encyclopedias about jazz, he contributed more than 100 articles to major jazz magazines throughout the world.
People’s Artist of Russia, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, artistic director and founder of the Jazz Philharmonic.
People’s Artist of Russia, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, artistic director and founder of the Jazz Philharmonic.
David Goloshyokin’s career in jazz spans for more than 45 years! He is one of the most authoritative and popular musicians of our country, recognized all over the world. His passion for jazz started when he was 15 years old, and a turning point in has carreer became his tenure at the famous orchestra of Joseph Weinstein. Since 1968, David Goloshchekin has been the leader of the legendary Ensemble of Jazz Music, a band with a large international touring geography.
In 1989, with assistance of Valentina Matvienko, David Goloshyokin launched the Philharmonia of jazz music. Today the Philharmonia is one of top notch jazz clubs in the world. For last 16 years David has been the music director and founders of The Swing of the White Night Jazz Festival. He’s the host and author of numerous series of jazz programs at St. Petersburg and Russian television and radio.
Program Director of JAZZ 89.1 FM Radio
Program Director of JAZZ 89.1 FM Radio
In 1989, Dmitry started his career in TV and radio as a sound man at the airing department of the television program South of Russia in Volgograd. Then he became the editor-in-chief of the Music Program Department. He set up along with partners the New Wave radio station in Volgograd in 1994 and started local broadcasting for Russkoe Radio, AvtoRadio, worked with Echo of Moscow, Silver Rain, Radio Shanson and other radio stations. He worked as the CEO of Russkoe Radio in Volgograd and the producer of the New Wave Media Group. In 2004 he got a rank of the Honored Signalman of Russia. He organized city days, destivals, concerts, various events. Dmitry was appointed the Program Director of the Radio JAZZ 89.1 FM by Multimedia Holding in 2019.
Non Cadenza and SPb Jazz Septetus bandleader, pianist, composer, arranger
Non Cadenza and SPb Jazz Septetus bandleader, pianist, composer, arranger
Evgeny graduated from St. Petersburg Mussorgsky College of Music in 2002 and Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts in 2007. He taught musical arrangements in Mussorgsky College of Music from 2006 to 2008 and worked as a musical director of the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd over more than 6 years. In 2017, he presented his author’s program for the quartet featuring A. Polovko, G. Voskoboinik and P. Mikheev.
In the two years of the quartet’s history the musicians played concerts at large venues in St. Petersburg, including The Small Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia and the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, the best jazz clubs in Moscow (Igor Butman Club, Alexey Kozlov Club, Esse jazz clubs), tooked part in The Jazz Across Borders forum & festival and The International Jazz Day, performed at numerous festivals – Brodsky DRIVE, Rainy Days Jazz Fest and released their debut album NN Song.
Creative music and educational project’s manager at CASIO
Creative music and educational project’s manager at CASIO
Ivan graduated from the Pop/Jazz Voice Department of Moscow State Pedagogical University. He organizes academic and jazz piano concerts, educational events and supervises collaborations with festivals at CASIO. Among the projects he worked on are Generation NEXT, Territory of Success, DrumsFest Russia 2019, SONGWRITING WEEK`19, literary festival ALOUD, LRK Trio band concerts, the Turn Over Play project by Dmitry Malikov, Moscow Seasons, Jazz Moscow at the Gilyarovsky Center, Opera in the Travel Palace.
Drummer of LRK Trio
Drummer of LRK Trio
Ignat Kravtsov was born in Ekaterinburg, and before moving to Moscow in 2013 played in a variety of jazz to rock bands. The teamwork with his bandmates in LRK Trio Evgeny Lebedev and Anton Revnyuk contributed him to show a new side as a universal drummer, capable of presenting own music within the band and implementing his bandmates’ excitingly sophisticated ideas in a creative way. Beyond the LRK Trio, he plays in a Russian indie rock band Therr Maitz and leads his own progressive rock&fusion band Amber Sept.
Head of Light Music company, festival producer
Head of Light Music company, festival producer
Ilya Bortnyuk has been in the music industry since 1990. Ilya is currently the general producer of Stereoleto and Parts of World (Chasti Sveta) festivals, artistic director of Morze musical club & festival, head of a music label and director of a Russian major record company. In 2001, Ilya founded Light Music company, which has become one of the main independent promoting companies in Russia.
Development and promotion director of The JIVE Group Production Center, producer and manager of The Kazan LIVE International Festival of Contemporary Culture
Development and promotion director of The JIVE Group Production Center, producer and manager of The Kazan LIVE International Festival of Contemporary Culture
Inna is a professional social psychologist, candidate of psychological sciences, PhD, associate professor, educator, author of more than 130 academic articles and non-fiction stories.
She is carrying out in psychological studies of creative people, cross-cultural processes, motivation and communication. She gives lectures at universities of Russia in Russian and English.
Since 2008 Inna has been leading the development and promotion projects at the JIVE Group Production Center, and has been driving the cultural and youth event concepts.
Radario Marketing Director
Radario Marketing Director
Kirill graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Dostoevsky Omsk State University. Prior to starting his career in PR, he worked for more than 5 years as a mass media journalist in morning news on radio, news agencies and glossy magazines in Omsk. Kirill has been working in marketing and external communications services, telecommunication and IT companies in St. Petersburg (ER-Telecom, Peter-Service) since 2011. He has been developing the marketing and PR department of Radario, a company which elaborates cloud solutions for sales, marketing and audience reach automatization in the entertainment industry. Kirill is the organizer of Cultural Marketing educational project and conference for experts in the cultural and entertainment industry to raise issues on modern marketing and PR tools in the event industry.
Jazz singer and composer.
Jazz singer and composer.
Kristina Kovalyova is a jazz singer and composer, musician with a unique sense of style and creative freedom, a vibrant tone and charming charisma. She took part in The Voice of Ukraine TV contest, International Jazz Day 2018 (St. Petersburg) and Rigas Ritmi Festival 2019 (Latvia), where she was awarded with the First prize and Raimond Pauls’ special prize.
Kristina has been frequently touring Russia and other countries with Russian musicians and NY pianist Jon Davis. Deeply influenced by Ukrainian music and culture, she combines jazz and Ukrainian folk music. Kristina released her debut album Hristya v Namysti featuring outstanding St. Petersburg musicians in June 2019.
Artistic director of Porgy & Bess, Vienna
Artistic director of Porgy & Bess, Vienna
Born 1968 in Baden, Switzerland. Graduated from the University of Vienna in 1993 with a degree in sports management. In 1991-1998 Cristoph was the co-organiser (together with Gerhard Eder) of the International Jazzfestival Saalfelden, in 1993 he held the Symposium “The Situation of the Contemporary Music on the example of Jazz” in Saalfelden. In 1993-2000 he served as the artistic & organizational director (together with Mathias Rüegg, Renald Deppe and Gabriele Mazic) of Jazz & Musicclub Porgy & Bess in Vienna, and in 2000 he became the director of the “new” Porgy & Bess in the rooms of the legendary Rondell-Kino in the center of Vienna. Among his other accomplishments are holding Good News from Russia festival in Vienna (1999), creating a concept of Grabenfesttage (together with Christoph Cech) and a jazzclub at the Kunsthalle Wien in the Museumsquartier, programming of The Great American Songbook series at Amerika exhibition at the Belvedere museum in Vienna (1999), holding the 30A series at Radiokulturhaus (1999-2000).
Publicist, concert promoter, radio host, owner of Lydia Liebman Promotions
Publicist, concert promoter, radio host, owner of Lydia Liebman Promotions
Lydia Liebman founded boutique jazz public relations firm Lydia Liebman Promotions in 2010. Liebman started by promoting local shows at Scullers Jazz Club, Berklee’s Café 939 and Wally’s Jazz Café. Her first account was Danilo Perez’s Berklee Global Jazz Institute. Since then, LLP has grown to become one of the most active and soughе after PR firms in jazz today. LLP’s impressive roster includes artists from all spectrums of jazz including Wallace Roney, Ralph Peterson, Catherine Russell, Brandee Younger and many more.
She spearheaded the Grammy campaigns for the Baylor Project (whose independent album The Journey went on to gain two nominations in 2017) and Spanish Harlem Orchestra’s Anniversary, winner of Best Tropical Latin Album in 2018. She has promoted concerts at storied venues like Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center and Berklee Performance Center, along with most major jazz clubs in the United States.
She is a member of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ (NARAS), an associate member of the Jazz Journalists Association and has served on the Board of Directors of JazzBoston.
Production manager of JazzLab
Production manager of JazzLab
Lobke Aelbrecht, a member of the Board of Directors of Europe Jazz Network, works as an artistic production manager at JazzLab, a concert organisation platform based in Ghent, Belgium. By building long-term partnerships with venues and setting up collaborations with other organisations, JazzLab allows Belgian jazz musicians to tour in decent venues all over the country and also abroad.
Even though her education and the first ten years of her professional career were in academia, in the linguistic department of universities in Ghent and Brussels, Lobke has always embraced the music scene. A few years ago she made a clear switch away from academia and into the cultural sector, with her job at Flanders Arts Institute, a research and support center for the performing arts, music and fine arts in Flanders and Brussels, funded by the Flemish government. Lobke was the representative for jazz, folk and world music.
Deputy director, artistic director of the Udmurt State Philharmonic Society
Deputy director, artistic director of the Udmurt State Philharmonic Society
Maria graduated from the musical and pedagogical department of VG Korolenko Glazov State Pedagogical Institute (piano and concertmaster class) in 2006. In 2011-2017 she was a program manager of the concert repertoire at Udmurt State Philharmonia. Maria has been a deputy director and artistic director of the Udmurt State Philharmonic Society since 2017.
Alongside with professional duties Maria takes part in scientific researches in the field of classical music management.
Ms Vidmak held the following projects: IzhJazzFest, Literary Festival: In the Homeland of P. I. Tchaikovsky, Online Art Contest In the Homeland of P. I. Tchaikovsky (2016), a joint project with the New Names Foundation (more than 1000 Udmurt young musicians as participants); Music Summer Festival (which was attended by more than 10,000 residents of Udmurtia).
Founder of Arts & Parts Ltd
Founder of Arts & Parts Ltd
Based in London and working internationally, Martel Ollerenshaw is an international arts broker and creative producer. With a wide portfolio of skills and interests, she works actively with artists, organisations and festivals to create and produce work that is pioneering and often genre blurring. Between 2002 and 2017, she worked at Serious International Music Producers/EFG London Jazz Festival, where her portfolio included Seriously Talented, the acclaimed suite of talent development programmes (i.e., Take Five, Take Five Europe and Air Time) for professional musicians working in jazz and improvised music, and now leads her own company Arts & Parts Ltd, which is a flexible vehicle to create and produce performing arts projects of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on music and interdisciplinary work. Martel is the Chair of Pacitti Company/SPILL Festival, the vice president of the Europe Jazz Network, a board member of the Australian Music Centre, and hcmf// (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival).
Programming director of Katowice JazzArt Festival
Programming director of Katowice JazzArt Festival
Since 2013, Martyna Markowska has been the head of programming of the Institution of Culture Katowice City of Gardens, where she programmes the Katowice JazzArt Festival and the world music festival Gardens of Sounds. In addition to writing for numerous publications dedicated to interdisciplinary forms of art, she specialises in curating interdisciplinary and social projects within the programme of Katowice — UNESCO Creative City of Music such as Polish aspect of Czech Music Crossroads in Ostrava. She was a member of the team that organised WOMEX 2017 in Katowice, and is a current board member of Europe Jazz Network. In 2019 she became a part of the programme committee for European Jazz Conference in Novara in September 2019.
Executive director of Tampere Music Festivals
Executive director of Tampere Music Festivals
Minnakaisa Kuivalainen, former Vice-President of Finland Festivals and Pirkanmaa Regional Fund, now is the executive director of Tampere Music Festivals, an organisation which holds three festivals in Finland: Tampere Jazz Happening, Tampere Biennale and Tampere Vocal Music Festival. She was elected to the Board of Directors of European Jazz Network in 2017.
Founder and art director of the Moscow International Jazz Festival in the Hermitage Garden
Founder and art director of the Moscow International Jazz Festival in the Hermitage Garden
Michael Green is a journalist, producer, one of the catalysts of jazz life in Moscow, founder and permanent art director of the Moscow International Festival Jazz in the Hermitage Garden.
In 1997, together with Alex Rostotsky, he launched his first jazz club Birdland, where almost all Moscow jazz musicians performed afterwards. That’s where he found like-minded musicians who he started to work with as a producer.
He released CDs Black Coffee and My Favorite Songs (by Anna Buturlina, 2002 and 2006), Get Happy (by Vladimir Danilin, 2006), All Right, OK, You Win (by Anna Koroleva, 2006), Black and White (by German Lukyanov, 2008) and two live CDs recorded at the 5th and 6th editions of the Jazz in the Hermitage Garden (2003, 2004). He was a artistic director and a member of the board of Moscow Jazz Engagement from 2003 to 2006. Along with the Cervantes Institute in Moscow, he held the First Russian-Spanish Jazz Festival in 2004. He hosted his own programs of Latin American music under a nick name Don Miguel at various Moscow radio stations from 1992 to 2017. Michael is one of the authors and editors of two memoir collections of jazz veterans, published under the name HERMITAGE Almanac in 2018 and 2019.
Pianist, Research Committee Chair at Jazz Education Network
Pianist, Research Committee Chair at Jazz Education Network
Monika Herzig is a faculty member in Arts Administration of Indiana University, head of the research committee for the Jazz Education Network and editor of JAZZ (Jazz Education in Research and Practice, IU Press). Her book David Baker – A Legacy in Music was released on November 2011 on IU Press, and Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener’s Companion on
Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. She has released more than a dozen CDs under her leadership on her own ACME Records as well as Owl Studios and Whaling City Sounds. Her awards include a 1994 Down Beat Magazine Award for Best Original Song, a Jazz Journalist Association Hero 2015 award, as well as grants from the NEA, the Indiana Arts Commission, MEIEA, among others. Her newest project “SHEROES” was cited as one of the best releases of 2018 in DownBeat Magazine, placing #31 on the year-end Jazz Week Charts.
Musicologist at Chelyabinsk State Philharmonic, journalist, concert host
Musicologist at Chelyabinsk State Philharmonic, journalist, concert host
Natalya is the initiator and scriptwriter for a wide range of theatrical shows by Igor Burko’s Ural Dixieland. As a part of it she participated in jazz festivals in Russia and abroad and has been the ensemble’s director since 2016. Natalya is an artistic director and host of the Spring beat international jazz festival, and artistic director and host of What A Wonderful World international jazz festival. Ms Rikker is the author of different broadcasts at Chelyabinsk radio stations, including Jazz Time weekly program aired from 2003 to 2007. She worked as well for the Culture News project at South Ural State Television and Radio Company. Ms Rikker has published a dozen of articles devoted to Chelyabinsk musical life. She teaches the history of pop music styles at South Ural State Institute of Arts P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Director and founder of The International Boutique Festival CHESS & JAZZ, program director of The Bosco Fresh Fest, CEO of I’M IN booking agency
Director and founder of The International Boutique Festival CHESS & JAZZ, program director of The Bosco Fresh Fest, CEO of I’M IN booking agency
Nick is a graduate of musical management faculty of Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. He has been a program director of the Bosco Fresh Fest since 2012. Nik founded the CHESS & JAZZ festival in 2018, which is held with a great success in Moscow, Singapore and Almaty. Nick has organized concerts for such artists as Gregory Porter, Gogo Penguin, Cory Henry & Funk Apostles, James Blake, John Newman, Ceelo Green, Roisin Murphy.
JazzMap.ru Editor and Creative Director
JazzMap.ru Editor and Creative Director
Olga Karpova is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. In the late 1990s, she worked for the 2nd and 5th TV channel of Russia, then she plunged into web marketing and online journalism. In 2013 she took up a new hobby – JazzMap.ru blog – started photo and video shooting. What was done for a mere pleasure progressed into a huge musical project that now covers jazz events and concerts in both capitals, and shares latest news about the Russian jazz scene. Jazzmap.ru offers big photo reports of concerts and jazz festivals, exclusive videos and interviews. Over time, social communities and Youtube channel were added to the blog. JazzMap.ru main objective is to gather jazz performers and lovers, to provide latest information about upcoming concerts of Russian and foreign stars of jazz music, jazz festivals and interesting creative collaborations. A “westward expansion” in the form of two similars projects in London and Boston is planned for two coming years.
Jazz vocalist, director of Art Of Jazz Company, director of international jazz festivals
Jazz vocalist, director of Art Of Jazz Company, director of international jazz festivals
Olga Skepner is a founder and music director of the International Festival of Improvisational Music «Jazz in the Kremlin with Olga Skepner» (Kazan, Tatarstan), the International Music Festival Hόtel de ville (Kazan, Tatarstan) and the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Brunswick Diagonals” (Germany-Russia).
In 2006, she founded the production center «Art of Jazz Company», which promotes modern improvisational and jazz music, the genres of ethno jazz and world music. In 2010, she became an organizer of the Days of French Culture in Kazan, as part of which the Jazz music festival «Le Jazz» was held in Kazan. In 2011, she was a director of the State Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan at the Tuqay Tatar State Philharmonia.
Since 2013, as a singer, she has been cooperating with jazz pianist and composer Andrei Rudenko. In the same year she founded a group, which included famous Russian jazz musicians. Director of famous Russian pianist and composer Evgeny Borets and “Evgeny Borets Trio”.
Deputy director of the Jazz Academy, trombonist, conductor, composer and arranger
Deputy director of the Jazz Academy, trombonist, conductor, composer and arranger
Pavel collaborated with the jazz orchestras of Kim Nazaretov, Georgy Garanyan, Sergey Zhilin and Berlin International Orchestra. Since 2004 Pavel has been playing at the Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman.
Since 2014, Pavel Ovchinnikov has been leading the orchestra class and teaching jazz trombone at the Department of Jazz & Pop Music at the Maimonides State Classical Academy. In 2017-2019 he occupied a position of the deputy director of the State College of Brass Art, now Pavel is the first deputy director of the Jazz Academy.
Pavel is the artistic director of the Jazz Triumph for Kids international jazz festival & competition and the musical director of the The Future of Jazz international festival.
Pavel’s arrangements and musical pieces are performed by many famous musicians both in Russia and abroad.
CEO of Jazz Do It Music agency and JDI Multimedia, co-producer of the ZAVTRA festival, the project Classics in the Dark
CEO of Jazz Do It Music agency and JDI Multimedia, co-producer of the ZAVTRA festival, the project Classics in the Dark
Robert has been a head of marketing and producer at the Russian office of One-Go-Events (the Netherlands), actively engaged in the family entertainment area (Disney Live!, Genius DaVinci, Sharks, Human Body).
In 2009, he started a production company Jazz Do It Music Agency. The agency organizes concerts, festivals, among its brightest projects are: ZAVTRA festival (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Skypark Live! Festival (Sochi), ZAZ tours, concerts of Duke Ellington Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra, Marcus Miller, George Benson, Brand New Heavies, Al Jarreau, Yiruma, Stanley Clarke, Richard Bona, Richard Galliano, Incognito, Jazzanova feat. Paul Randolph, Yamato, Chucho Valdes and others. Since 2017 Robert has been devekoping Jazz Do It Multimedia studio – studio specializing in realtime graphics, video content creation and interactive installations.
Trumpeter, pianist, musical director of XJAZZ Festival
Trumpeter, pianist, musical director of XJAZZ Festival
The trumpeter and pianist STUDNITZKY has always been a traveller between the realms of jazz, classical and electronic music. He travelled the world as member of Mezzoforte, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Jazzanova, Dominic Miller, Wolfgang Haffner and many others.
Since 2015 he has been concentrating on his own projects – the jazz/electronic band KY, his orchestra project MEMENTO and solo shows as well.
In 2012 he founded Contemplate music, his own record label. In 2014 he initiated the XJAZZ Festival Berlin and took charge as its musical director. It immediately became Berlin’s largest jazz festival (90 concerts in 4 days in 11 venues, reaching 21.000 people) and launched international editions as well (Reykjavik, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Minsk). In 2019 XJAZZ also launched an own label and a streaming app.
Since 2014 Sebastian Studnitzky has been a professor for Jazz trumpet at the Dresden University of Music and since 2017 at Jazz Institute Berlin as well
Head of event-agency Mood Engineer, executive producer.
Head of event-agency Mood Engineer, executive producer.
Sergey Lopatin has been working in the event industry since 2000.
He founded the agency “Mood Engineer”, there are some privilege clients such as: Sberbank, PIRELLI, Volvo, Hyundai and others. Agency has successfully held events in Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Scotland and Monaco, established the partnership with European event agencies. The Mood Engineer Agency also organizes events for the Ministry of Culture and the Government of St. Petersburg.
Jazz saxophonist, founder of Szczecin Jazz Festival.
Jazz saxophonist, founder of Szczecin Jazz Festival.
A graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, Sylwester Ostrowski became the leading force in the founding of the Szczecin Academy of Art. As a music producer, he became the cultural advisor of to the mayor and City Hall in Szczecin. His break came when he was producing music for Piotr Wojtasik, who offered him a recording session with top American musicians including Newman T. Baker, Wayne Dockery, and Reggie Moore.
Sylwester Ostrowski is a rare case in the Polish artistic world. He successfully combines the role of music — jazz saxophonist with culture animation, including the creation of the Szczecin Jazz Festival. He has recorded with American jazz vocalist Deborah Brown and toured alongside genres like Bobby Watson, Wynton Marsalis and Keyon Harrold.
Sylwester builds cultural connections globally with jazz.
To date, he has three albums; the latest being In Our Own Way, where he takes on cultural exchange, bringing a fusion of American and Polish jazz, the classical music of Frederic Chopin, and traditional music of Poland and Japan. Sylwester was recently awarded the title of Honorary Ambassador of Szczecin City.
Communication Manager of Europe Jazz Network
Communication Manager of Europe Jazz Network
Stefano Zucchiatti is the Communication Manager of Europe Jazz Network. He has a substantial experience in communication at the international level for non-profit organisations and networks. His main areas of expertise are brand management, digital communications and social media, events management and press relations. He studied Communication Sciences at the Padova University and has a Master in Communication for International Relations at IULM University in Milan.
Reykjavik Jazz Festival
Reykjavik Jazz Festival
Sunna Gunnlaugs is a pianist and co-director of the Reykjavik Jazz Festival in Iceland since 2015. She is also on the board of EJN since 2018. Sunna organizes two concert series – “Freyjujazz" at the National Gallery of Iceland which is focused on creating opportunities for women in jazz, and "Jazz in Salurinn” at Salurinn in Kopavogur, where she invites international artists to perform acoustic solo concerts.
Musician, the Head of the Arkhangelsk-JAZZ production center
Musician, the Head of the Arkhangelsk-JAZZ production center
Tim Dorofeev has organized more than twenty festivals including The International Jazz Days in Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk-Blues, Jazz Workshop project and club. He is a band leader of the Art Quartet, which won the Quartets 4×4 television contest on the Culture channel in 2018. The band members of the Art Quartet have been playing together for more than 15 years having created their own unique and distinctive style over that time. The musical repertoire combines contemporary jazz, Russian folklore and Tim’s own music. The ensemble programme features famous Russian and foreign jazz musicians, folk bands and choirs, as well as contemporary dance and video art. The quartet worked with numerous world famous jazz musicians as partners: Anatoly Vapirov – sax (Bulgaria), Mike del Ferro – piano (Netherlands), Vladimir Tarasov – drums (Lithuania), Umezu Khojitoki – sax (Japan) and others.
Programm Director of Casa da Música
Programm Director of Casa da Música
Fernando de Sousa began his activity in 1997 as an independent promoter. Since this year, he was involved on the organization and production of various cultural events and music festivals in Portugal, African Portuguese spoken countries and Brazil. Fernando has been invited to give conferences and participate at various panels around the world on music subjects mainly focused on lusophonie and brazilian music in Europe.
From 2004, is in charge of the programming of pop-rock, jazz and world music at Casa da Música Foundation where he currently continues to exercise these competences. The concept behind Casa da Música is promoting high quality performances of several genres of music, including classical and contemporary music since there are four resident groups under its direction (a symphonic orchestra, a baroque orchestra and an ensemble for contemporary music apart of two choirs).
Coordinator/administrator of Europe Jazz Network
Coordinator/administrator of Europe Jazz Network
Francesca Cerretani is in charge of managing the EJN virtual office; working with EJN project leaders on the activities’ administration, coordination and production; Board administration; assisting the Network Manager in the preparation of grant applications. From 2001 to 2013 Francesca was organising theatre and music events in Italy and worldwide.
Founder of Jazz Fest Sarajevo, co-curator of Ljubljana Jazz Festival
Founder of Jazz Fest Sarajevo, co-curator of Ljubljana Jazz Festival
Business Magazine named him Art Manager of the year in 2000. He is the founder of Jazz Fest Sarajevo, international music festival. As founder and producer of label and agency Gramofon, he organized hundreds music and other events from chamber music concerts to big arena pop-rock shows and corporate events. Since 2001 he published and produced over 40 CDs, DVDs, and books, most of them released for Gramofon (founded 2003). In 2009 he started regional music event Xenophonia, and in 2012 regional educational program Music Meeting.
From 2001 until 2006 he was a jury member of the European Jazz Prize. From 2003 until 2008 he was a member of Board of directors of Open Society Fund Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo from 2014. Since 1987 he has been writing comments, reviews and essays about music in daily newspaper and magazines, as well as hosted hundreds of shows on various national and independent radio stations. He is also working as a freelance PR consultant (since 2000), artist manager (since 2000) and freelance writer for international magazines (since 2012). Since 2018 co-curator of Ljubljana Jazz Festival and editor-in-chief of NOMAD web portal.
Project manager of I-Jazz
Project manager of I-Jazz
Enrico Bettinello is a music and performing arts curator, writer and cultural manager based in Venezia (Italy). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Europe Jazz Network and project manager for I-Jazz, the association of Jazz Festivals in Italy.
As a curator, he collaborates with NovaraJazz (managing residencies and multi-disciplinary projects), Pro-Helvetia (as creator and artistic director of New Echoes series of concerts) , Palazzo Grassi/Punta della Dogana Museum, Venice Biennale and many more.
Enrico Bettinello is currently directing the European Institute of Design in Venice.
Key Event Director
Key Event Director
Having graduated from the Faculty of the directing of theatrical performances and festivities at Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Julia has been creating events, performances and theatrical shows as a director and scriptwriter since 2010. Her key projects include MegafonLive Festival 2015-2016 in 10 cities across Russia, National CRE Real Estate Awards Ceremony, ROSINFRA National Infrastructure Development Award and a whole range of cultural events, musical festivals, theater and fashion shows, musicals, conferences, awards ceremonies and other events for Russian and international companies.
Managing Director, Nasjonal jazzscene, President of Europe Jazz Network
Managing Director, Nasjonal jazzscene, President of Europe Jazz Network
His career as a jazz promoter started in 1969 when he presented Keith Jarrett Trio in his hometown. Jan Ole became the first director of Bodø Kulturhus a new – two venue performing space in Bodø in 1991. He was asked to take over as Artistic Director of Molde Int Jazz Festival in 2001, a position he had until August 2013, when he took over as managing director of Nasjonal Jazzscene – Victoria. Victoria is a 300 cap venue in Oslo presenting around 150 concerts per year, a variety of unestablished acts and nasjonal/ international artists like Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Esperanza Spalding, John McLaughlin etc.
Cofounder and vice-president, L’Équipe Spectra, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Cofounder and vice-president, L’Équipe Spectra, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
André Ménard numbers among the most influential figures in the Quebec artistic community, having greatly contributed to the cultural life of Montreal. Working in the domain of live show and concert production since 1975, he founded L’Équipe Spectra with Alain Simard almost 40 years ago and remains vice-president of the company. He is also the cofounder of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and, he oversaw the workings of Montréal venues Le Spectrum and Métropolis (MTELUS) for 25 years as Vice-President and Managing Director of concert halls for L’Équipe Spectra. From 1995 to 2015, he sat on the board of directors of dance company La La La Human Steps and has been a member of the board of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership since its inception in 2003. Driven by his insatiable cultural curiosity, André Ménard travels to more than 300 artistic events every year throughout the world.
Российский музыкальный союз
Российский музыкальный союз (РМС) объединяет музыкантов разных профессий со всей страны. В составе РМС действуют восемь разнонаправленных гильдий, под эгидой большинства гильдий работают также отдельные ассоциации. Союз уделяет большое внимание популяризации творчества российских авторов и исполнителей, содействует в проведении концертов, фестивалей, гастролей, творческих конкурсов. С 2017 года Союз является членом Международного музыкального совета (IMC) — авторитетной неправительственной организации при ЮНЕСКО.
Дирекция образовательных программ в сфере культуры и искусства
Дирекция образовательных программ в сфере культуры и искусства курирует деятельность образовательных учреждений, подведомственных Департаменту культуры города Москвы — колледжей и школ искусств, выстраивая открытую и доступную систему детского творческого образования, занимается разработкой и реализацией образовательных проектов в области культуры и искусства.
Помимо реализации программ повышения квалификации педагогов творческих дисциплин, Дирекция проводит курсы, лекции, концерты и мастер-классы для всех, кто интересуется культурным наследием, современной культурой и т.д.
ONErpm
ONErpm – музыкальная компания нового поколения, предоставляющая артистам полный спектр инструментов цифрового маркетинга для развития их карьеры. Команда ONErpm состоит из более чем 250 экспертов музыкальной индустрии в 21 городе мира. ONErpm управляет одной из крупнейших многоканальных музыкальных сетей (MCN) на YouTube, обеспечивая дополнительный доход и маркетинговые возможности для создателей музыки. ONErpm оказывает свои услуги более 200000 артистов, лейблов, издательств, YouTube-каналов и других независимых производителей контента. Более 8000 «премиум»-артистов пользуются расширенным каталогом лейбл-услуг ONErpm, при этом сохраняя за собой все права на произведения. Технологии и экспертный анализ ONErpm открыты для всех – от начинающих артистов, делающих только первые шаги к успеху, до состоявшихся хитмейкеров, которым нужны надежные партнеры по продвижению на постоянно меняющемся музыкальном рынке.
Фонд поддержки и развития музыкального искусства
Фонд поддержки и развития музыкального искусства – некоммерческая организация, основанная Народным артистом России Игорем Бутманом в 2014 году для поддержки и развития джазовой сцены и образования в России. За годы своего существования Фонд провёл ряд крупнейших джазовых мероприятий в истории нашей страны, включая Международный день джаза в Санкт-Петербурге (2018 год, совместно с ЮНЕСКО и Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz).
С 2017 года Фонд проводит единственный в России профессиональный международный джазовый форум-фест Jazz Across Borders, ежегодно собирающий в Санкт-Петербурге сотни музыкантов и профессионалов российской и зарубежной джазовой индустрии. Фонд регулярно поддерживает единственную в России Академию Джаза, международные конкурсы молодых исполнителей «Мир Джаза» и «Детский Триумф Джаза», а также инициирует и финансирует стажировки студентов Академии и иных юных талантливых музыкантов в России и за рубежом.
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