Pavel Ovchinnikov

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.