Concert by Igor Butman and Yaroslav Simonova. Concert by Igor Butman and Yaroslav Simonova You performed with outstanding Russian and foreign musicians at grandiose concerts not only in Russia, but also in France, in the USA

The Svyatoslav Richter Foundation presents a new project by Igor Butman with an incredibly talented young vocalist and pianist Yaroslava Simonova, whose repertoire includes not only famous jazz pieces, but also famous rock hits!

The concert will take place on May 29, 2016 at 16.00 at the Mir Cinema and Concert Hall in Tarusa.

Yaroslav Simonov

Yaroslava began to show interest in the piano at the age of two. By the age of three, it became clear that she was endowed with an absolute ear for music. At the age of six, Yaroslav entered the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky to the piano department, where he studies to this day. Yaroslav learns musical works by ear and plays exclusively from memory due to her extremely low vision from birth, which does not allow her to sight-read.

Music for Yaroslava is not just the most favorite thing in life, it is the whole world! Today, she is not only a young performer of classical music and a singer, but also a composer in various musical directions, as well as the leader of a young, but already remarkably well-established group that performs music in different directions, from classical and jazz to rock and funk !

But, nevertheless, jazz is her separate passion! Thanks to the support and creative guidance of Igor Butman, who seriously contributes to the development of Yaroslava in jazz, the young artist was lucky to perform in grandiose concerts on the same stage with outstanding musicians in Russia and abroad: she performed at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, On stage in Kingsborough in New York, festivals "Triumph of Jazz", "Aqua Jazz. Sochi Jazz Festival" and "Jazz Seasons in Gorki" with the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, Mireille Mathieu, Alan Harris, Nikolai Levinovsky, Conrad Herwig, Alex Sipyagin, Anthony Strong, Vadim Eilenkrig, Sergey Mazaev, Andrey Makarevich, Oleg Akkuratov and many others.

Another passion of Yaroslav is languages. By the age of 11, she had mastered English and Chinese, now she has moved on to learning Spanish, and plans to learn French in the future!

In her free time, Yaroslava masters acting. In 2013 and 2014, she took part in theater productions in the USA, in Florida.

Igor Butman and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra

The legendary band, created in 1999 by saxophonist Igor Butman, quickly won the love of the public not only in Russia, but far beyond its borders. Over the 15 years of its existence, the Igor Butman Orchestra has toured hundreds of cities around the world, has repeatedly performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the legendary Birdland Jazz Club and other famous venues. In 2012, the Moscow government awarded the Igor Butman Orchestra the official title of "Moscow Jazz Orchestra".

The Big Band's touring schedule is impressive: the orchestra regularly tours the United States and performs at major festivals in Europe and Asia. In 2013, the orchestra, named a "constellation of virtuosos" by the prestigious American magazine Downbeat, toured the United States twice and also took part in the Umbria Jazz Festival, Jazz à Juan and Wigan Jazz Festival. In a report from the Umbria Jazz Festival, Downbeat magazine compared Butman's orchestra to three of the best jazz orchestras of all time: "Igor Butman's Big Band ... played a 90-minute set that demonstrated their mastery of the language of modern orchestral jazz, inheriting the traditions of post-bop big bands." -bands Dizzy Gillespie. The orchestra played bright numbers and ballads with precision, flair and swing – as if it were the Count Basie Orchestra on steroids during the Atomic Era recording sessions with the We'll Crush You approach that was characteristic of the Buddy Rich Orchestra at its best."

World-famous jazzmen were delighted with joint performances with Igor Butman's jazz orchestra. Among them are Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, the New York Voices Vocal Quartet, Kevin Mahogany, George Benson, Gino Vanelli, Wynton Marsalis, Larry Corriell, Billy Cobham, Bill Evans, Randy Brekker, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Toots Tielemans.

In September 2003, the Igor Butman Jazz Orchestra performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under Wynton Marsalis at the opening of the jazz season at Lincoln Center in New York. At these sold-out concerts, which became a real sensation for the entire jazz world, original compositions by Marsalis and Butman, jazz standards, as well as specially arranged for two orchestras pieces "Polyushko-Field", "Evening on the Road" and "Water Skiing" from the cartoon "Wait for it!". The New York Times wrote in its review that Igor Butman's orchestra showed "incredible competence and fluency."

The Orchestra's repertoire includes a huge amount of music - both exclusive author's and world famous, in brilliant arrangements by Nikolai Levinovsky and Vitaly Dolgov. Its special area is made up of original concert programs. One of them is Carnival of Jazz, a joint project of the Igor Butman Orchestra and People's Artist of Russia Larisa Dolina. For the first time this program was performed in Moscow, then, gaining more and more success, in other cities of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and America. In 2003, the double album Carnival of Jazz was released, recorded during concerts in the Rossiya Hall. The premiere of the updated program "Jazz Carnival 2. No comments" took place in July 2008 on the stage of Lincoln Center as part of the JVC Jazz Festival and caused such a stir among jazz fans in New York that the Rose Theater barely accommodated everyone who wanted to get to the concerts!

Several more projects of the Igor Butman Orchestra are connected with the crossover direction. The Big Band often tours with the American pianist and composer Igor Raykhelson, Grammy winner violist Yuri Bashmet and his Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble. In 2009, their big tour of US cities took place.

To date, the discography of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra includes four albums released on the Butman Music label. The first, "Eternal Triangle", was recorded with the participation of the famous American trumpeter Randy Brekker in August 2003 in Moscow, and mixed by the best American jazz sound engineer James Farber in November 2003 in New York. Eternal Triangle has set an extremely high standard of performance and sound quality for all Russian jazz. This is confirmed by the fact that the music from the album, which has not yet been released, has already been played on many jazz radio stations in America.

Orchestra's second album [email protected] appeared on Butman Music in June 2009. It presents the music of one of the most gifted jazz composers of our time, Nikolai Levinovsky. It should be noted that perhaps the most famous American jazz musician today, the excellent trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, took part in the recording of the album - it is his solo that sounds in the play Russian Passion (“Russian Passion”).

In 2010, at the Chereshnevy Les Festival in Moscow, the Igor Butman Jazz Orchestra performed the cycle “Sheherazade’s tales” with the participation of famous New York jazzmen – trumpeter Sean Jones, guitarist Peter Bernstein, vocalist Kathy Jenkins and trombonist James Burton. The cycle includes the famous Russian romances and the symphonic suite "Scheherazade" by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov in jazz arrangements by Nikolai Levinovsky. It is not surprising that such a non-trivial fusion of classics and jazz has become a real revelation for the public and the press. Indeed, no one before so successfully and witty connected such polar worlds! Live-album "Sheherazade's tales", recorded in concert, was released in November 2010 via Butman Music.

In November 2013, the sound recording company "Butman Music" presented a new sensational album "Special Opinion" by Igor Butman, Nikolai Levinovsky and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra! The fourth work in the Orchestra's discography was recorded in New York in January 2013 with American superstars: drummer Dave Weckle, guitarists Mike Stern and Mitch Stein, saxophonist Bill Evans, trumpeter Randy Brekker and bassist Tom Kennedy.

Despite her young age, Yaroslava Simonova is already a well-established musician, bright and original both in improvisational performance and in academic music. In 2017 Union of Music Critics of Russia called Yaroslav the winner in the "Debut of the Year" nomination in the Jazz / Blues category! And in May 2018, Yaroslava Simonova became the winner of the grandiose TV contest "Blue Bird".

The website project asked Yaroslava a few questions about how her personal musical tastes have changed over time and what attracts her to music today as a performer and as an author?

My great interest in music and, in particular, in vocals, began with musicals, some of which, such as “Hair”, “Mary Poppins” and “The sound of music”, I managed to watch in the original on Broadway when my parents and I were in the USA. It made such a huge impression on me that I began to learn songs from musicals myself and give home concerts for family and friends! Then, the period of musicals gradually began to decline, and then I heard Nina Simone on the radio with the song "Sinnerman" and that's all ... .. she became my absolute idol! Then came the period of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppilin, Queen, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Doors, PJ Harvey. Later, a one-of-a-kind, unique for me singer Bjork appeared and artists such as Woodkid, Youn Sun Nah, Melody Gardot, Chick Corea, just can't list them all! During all this time I have listened to tons of absolutely different music, I still listen to something, but something has been eliminated and no longer causes such delight.

And my interest in classical music began with the "Children's Album" by P.I. Tchaikovsky, which later, already being a student of the 3rd grade of the Central Music School, I recorded on a disc! Then there was love for such composers as Chopin, Debussy! Now, I'm just recording an album on which I will perform Chopin's mazurkas and Debussy's preludes! So, my second piano disc is coming soon!

I also love opera very much, this love arose not so long ago, but I'm sure it will last forever!

You can talk forever about favorite music, but if you summarize very briefly what is the leader in my playlist today, it will look like this: Bjork, Nina Simone, Doors, Woodkid, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, LRK Trio, Rachmaninoff , Debussy, Galina Vishnevskaya, Cecilia Bartoli, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Schnittke's choral music, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Borodin's Prince Igor.

From the editorial site

On April 14, the ZIL Cultural Center will host a concert presentation of a new disc by Yaroslava Simonova (piano) - a student of the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky (class of Andrey Vladimirovich Limaev).

Her musical talent and natural artistry appeared and were noticed at a very young age. Thanks to a long collaboration with the Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman, work on her debut vocal album with LRK Trio and victory in the All-Russian competition "Blue Bird" (2018), Yaroslava Simonova gained fame, first of all, as a jazz vocalist. However, Yaroslav's work is not limited to this musical style. She is not only a talented jazz singer, improviser and composer, but also a gifted performer of academic music.

Yaroslava's first disc was Tchaikovsky's Children's Album, which was released on Butman Music Records in 2014. The disc "Chopin & Debussy" is the young pianist's second disc of academic music.

- Yaroslava Simonova is not only a gifted vocalist and pianist, she is also a subtle composer with non-standard musical thinking. How difficult is the writing process itself? Is it exhausting? Or vice versa - inspires, inspires? Is it possible to just sit down and write a melody to order?

At the moment, I already have 4 songs, the music for which I wrote, and work is underway on the fifth. The words to my songs are written by a young poetess Maru Lofty, who is very close to me in spirit, she is a deep person with a very unconventional thinking, understands all my ideas perfectly. I give her a story and she wraps it in rhyme! True, there is one Chinese song, the words to which we wrote with my friend Chen Yin from China. I think that the day when I myself will start writing the words to the songs is not far off.

The process of writing music is extraordinary! When I compose, I forget about everything, I completely immerse myself in the sounds and the plot around these sounds, the music and the plot are inseparable for me, they are always born at the same time. It happens that a song is born in an instant, I just sit down and play the piano. And it happens that the idea of ​​a certain part in the song suddenly comes to mind, and then, I build everything else around these few notes or several measures and they completely determine the direction of the song, this process can be difficult, sometimes even lengthy, but This is an amazing world for me!

Coming up with custom music is a different story! There is a different mechanism at work here, and this is a different type of creativity. It's also very interesting to me, it's like a game! You are given a task and you solve it using your imagination, knowledge and intuition!

You know, I have a dream - I want to not only sing and play the piano, but also write music for films! This area just fascinates me! After all, the music in the film is 50% of success! I am in awe of composers like Howard Shore, who wrote the score for The Lord of the Rings, John Williams for Harry Potter, Danny Elfman, who wrote the score for Mission: Impossible and many of Tim Burton's films! I will try my best to make this dream come true!

- Yaroslava, please tell us how your musical education is progressing - jazz and academic.

I receive my main musical education at the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, where I study at the piano department in the class of Andrey Vladimirovich Limaev. This is an amazing school with absolutely amazing teachers.

Additionally, my friend, a graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory im. Tchaikovsky Alisa Kuprieva, who has been working with me several times a week for almost eight years now! This is my friend, my companion, she is like an older sister to me!

I also professionally practice vocals with jazz singer Irina Rodiles, who teaches me how to control my voice and breathing, shows me different jazz techniques. With her, we learn my entire vocal repertoire, and also devote a lot of time to working with improvisation, singing etudes and scales. Irina is a wonderful teacher with great knowledge and wonderful human qualities.

About a year ago, I also started to study jazz piano with Evgeny Lebedev. He is an amazing musician, I was immediately struck by how carefully he treats the sound! So I listen to his game and understand that I want to play jazz this way! In his playing, every note, every sound has a meaning! Well, working with him is a pleasure! His clarity, organization, focus on results and an amazing sense of humor help me cope with extremely difficult tasks, because with each lesson Zhenya constantly raises the bar higher and higher!

In addition to music, I do choreography, languages ​​​​(Chinese and English), I read a lot, and of course, no one has canceled school subjects either. I study all school subjects, such as algebra, physics, Russian, literature, etc. at home, with my mom and dad, grandparents, and I could not even dream of better teachers! In general, a lot of people are involved in my education, and I am immensely grateful to all of them!

There are several ideas about where to continue studying and what area to specialize in. While we are considering different options. There is still time, but we need to decide soon! I can only say one thing for sure - my future, for sure, is connected with music and art!

- A very interesting topic is participation in music competitions. What can we talk about today as a stage already passed, what competitions are currently relevant and what is planned in the near future? Also, what music festivals would you like to perform at?

You know, I can't call myself a "competitive person". Almost never participated in any competitions until recently. Now I am participating in the Blue Bird competition on the Russia TV channel, I even reached the final! Participation in a TV project that is shown all over the country is not for the faint of heart, it is a very responsible and exciting process, and besides, it is very laborious! I can say that, thanks to the long-term collaboration with Igor Butman and his orchestra, I feel very confident in the competition. He “hardened” me, taught me to quickly navigate even in the most unexpected situations, work with an orchestra, feel free in front of a huge audience and not be afraid of anything! I am very grateful to Igor Mikhailovich for this!

Also, the competition is a completely new, colossal experience and acquaintance with new interesting and talented people. It seems to me that this, at least once, is simply necessary for every person who wants to become an artist!

Upon completion of Blue Bird, I will need to focus on other creative aspects. There is a lot ahead! Now work is underway on recording two of my discs simultaneously - vocal and classical piano, you need to concentrate on this work and bring it to the end! And then there are a lot of plans and they are all connected with music and creativity! We'll be sure to keep you updated!

The next scheduled concert will take place on June 5th, at the Alexey Kozlov Club, where we, together with the LRK Trio and musicians from the orchestra of Igor Butman (guitarist Evgeny Pobozhiy and trombonist Sergey Dolzhenkov) will present a program that we have been working on for a long time and hard work. All compositions from this program will be included in the debut album, which is currently being recorded!

- And the final question is cooperation with LRK Trio. This, of course, is a completely separate topic for conversation, but if possible, please tell us when this creative union first arose, in what style it performs. And, if possible, a few words about the new album of this musical project, how will it be interesting and in what way will it have something in common with the previous one?

This union arose a little over a year ago! Once, I heard the performance of LRK Trio at a concert, they mesmerized me from the first sounds! They are different, they are unique, they are musicians of a new generation! I immediately told my mother: “I wish I could cooperate with them!” I instantly imagined how my songs would sound in their frame! I felt that we were on the same wavelength! Some time passed and my mother, who takes care of all my musical and organizational affairs, said that the guys from LRK Trio would be happy to cooperate! How happy I was!!! We also attracted wonderful musicians from the orchestra of Igor Butman, with whom I have been collaborating for a long time - this is guitarist Evgeny Pobozhiy and trombonist Serey Dolzhenkov, who still plays the duduk and didgeribone in our project! And of course, a wonderful sound engineer Yevgeny Potsikaylik joined our team, with whom I already have quite a lot of experience, he is a professional in his field!

My mother and I compiled a program of 11 songs, coordinated it with the guys and a lot of work began: arrangements, vocal lessons with my vocal teacher and a lot of rehearsals! We have performed with this program several times! And after we received great reviews and realized that this music is of great interest to the public, we immediately decided to record an album! To date, a lot of work has already been done, we recorded the entire instrumental part at the CineLab Studio, selected the most successful takes! Anton Revnyuk helped a lot with this, who did the most painstaking work with instrumental recording and prepared it for the next stage - vocal recording! Anton has vast experience and great taste, which I really trust.

In general, I want to say that the recording process with subsequent discussions and revisions was very exciting! All the guys are great professionals in their field and I learned a lot from them! Everyone was involved, there were a lot of discussions, new ideas appeared right during the recording, everyone contributed and put a piece of himself into this album! Zhenya Lebedev made amazing arrangements for our project, Anton took care of all the technical issues, Ignat gave out new ideas one after another, Zhenya Pobozhiy even brought an acoustic guitar (he thought that one of the songs would sound better on an acoustic guitar), Serezha Dolzhenkov created something the impossible on their avant-garde wind instruments! The recording atmosphere was amazing!

This album will be very eclectic, just like my musical tastes! It consists of songs written by me in English and Chinese, as well as from the works of my favorite musicians: Bjork, Youn Sun Nah, Nirvana, The Doors in their own, but in our own reading! Of course, not without jazz standards, which will sound completely new! In this project, jazz, alternative music, ethics, rock and blues are combined in their own unique style. And the symbiosis of familiar musical instruments with an extremely unusual Armenian duduk and Australian didgeribon and numerous electronic effects will, I hope, become our hallmark!

Olga, thank you so much for the interesting interview! It was very nice talking to you!

The project website expresses its deep gratitude to Yaroslava and her mother Olesya Simonova for participating in this conversation! We will definitely keep our readers informed and tell about all new musical projects of Yaroslava. And, of course, we (her listeners and admirers!) wish her a lot of strength and patience so that everything she wishes comes true. See you at the concerts!

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Yaroslava Simonova is a phenomenal 13 year old vocalist, pianist, composer and leader of the Super Band! In 2017

Interview with the participant of the Skolkovo Jazz Science 2017 festival Yaroslava Simonova

How are science and music related?
Very strong!

Last year, the Skolkovo Jazz Science festival became the main event of the summer not only for Skolkovo, but also for Moscow and the Moscow region. And on August 26, the Skolkovo Jazz Science 2017 festival will take place, in which we are promised to present the maximum palette of jazz trends: from New Urban Jazz performed by young European musicians to classical jazz standards from the headliner of the festival - the Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman. In addition to a rich jazz program, theatrical performances, poetry performances and a lecture hall dedicated to the future in various fields of science, culture, media and technology are planned. In collaboration with the science festival "WOW! HOW?" Skolkovo has created interactive zones and art objects that visualize the idea of ​​synergy between music and science!

Talent and great work - that's what else unites people of science and art.
The phenomenal 13-year-old vocalist, pianist, composer, leader of the alternative project "The Project of the Future" and student of Igor Butman Yaroslava Simonova is a participant in the festival. Young age is not an obstacle to performing on the same stage with the masters. We asked Yaroslava herself about the musical life, about the international performances of the young artist and about her expectations from the upcoming festival in Skolkovo.

Yaroslava, tell us a little about your family, do you have sisters, brothers?

Family is the most important and most precious thing in life, and for me it is simply wonderful, the best in the world! I live with my beloved mom, dad and my four-legged friend - a fluffy Spitz named Lisa. I have an older brother, Vova, who is currently studying to be an aeronautical engineer at a university in the USA and will soon be designing and building aircraft. And also my family consists of absolutely wonderful grandparents, uncles and aunts, great-grandmothers, godparents, cousin and second cousins. And although not all of them live in Moscow, we are still very close and friendly, we take care of each other and help each other always and everywhere!

From the age of two you showed an interest in piano and music. How did you get acquainted with the instrument? Are there professional musicians in your family?

There are no professional musicians in my family, but it so happened that all members of my family are very fond of music and almost all of them managed to study at least a little in music schools at one time. So music from classical and jazz to rock and alternative sounded in our house all the time! At the age of two, they bought me an electronic piano and my mother taught me the names of notes, and suddenly, by chance, it turned out that I had perfect pitch. I sang something all the time, tried to pick up melodies and play them on the piano. My relatives, realizing such a craving for art, began to intensively develop it, and at the age of six I was taken to an exam at the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where I study at the piano department to this day.

You perform a lot with Igor Butman. He is your teacher and mentor. What is it like to be a student of such a master?

Igor Mikhailovich is a world-class musician, People's Artist of Russia, leader of an amazing jazz orchestra! Working with such a person is a great honor and a huge responsibility! During the two years of working with Igor Butman and his orchestra, I gained tremendous experience, fell in love with jazz with all my heart and realized how difficult, but at the same time, how incredibly interesting the life of a musician is. In jazz, as in classical music, in order to achieve a result, you need to work tirelessly every day!

Yaroslava, you are 13 and have a crazy creative life. How do you balance it with school?

Yes, my life is very busy, and I'm so glad about it, because I'm doing my favorite thing. Sometimes it is very difficult to do everything, but I learn to plan my time correctly and clearly, this is very important. Because of such a busy schedule, I study school subjects at home, my parents and grandparents help me in this, I don’t know what I would do without them. They teach very well, always so intelligibly, with fiction, with interesting examples, fun! Also, several times a week, my mother and I go to a music school - this is sacred. I also do jazz vocals, jazz piano, dance, Chinese and English, and yoga. So the schedule is really crazy, but it's so cool and so interesting!

You performed with outstanding Russian and foreign musicians at grandiose concerts not only in Russia, but also in France, in the USA. What is your biggest impression?

You know, I get great impressions from absolutely every concert, this is an incomparable feeling! But there are a few moments that I remember the most and were perhaps the most exciting: my very first stage appearance at the Igor Butman Taganka Club, a performance with Mireille Mathieu, Igor Butman and his orchestra at UNESCO in Paris, a duet with my an idol from South Korea, an amazing singer Yun Sun-na at the International House of Music at the Triumph of Jazz festival, a performance at the Jazz Seasons in Leninsky Gorki with an alternative project The Project of the Future, an acquaintance and performance on the same stage with the legendary Winton Marsalis and, of course, the Skolkovo Jazz festival last year.

What are your expectations from the upcoming musical event in Skolkovo - the Skolkovo Jazz Science festival?

This festival will be the second Skolkovo Jazz Science festival for me. I am very happy! This is an amazing festival and the atmosphere at this festival is extraordinary. So many wonderful musicians from around the world! Everything around is so modern, so unusual. The audience is amazing! Last year, when Igor Butman's orchestra and I started to perform "Just the two of us", everyone started dancing and singing along, it was unforgettable! I'm sure this year will be just as great. I am looking forward to this holiday.

The main ideas of jazz are experiment and improvisation. They form the basis of the concept of the musical program of the second Skolkovo Jazz Science festival. Do you sometimes improvise on stage or strictly follow rehearsed techniques?

There is no way without improvisation in jazz, but in order to improvise it was really interesting, you must first learn how to do it. I do a lot of jazz vocals with my teacher between performances, we listen to recordings of great jazz performers, analyze them, learn some phrases, come up with different moves, sing exercises and etudes, create some kind of base. And on stage, having this knowledge, I, of course, will improvise!

Any advice for our young readers on how to overcome public speaking anxiety?

It seems to me that you need to try to think only about the performance and what you want to convey to the audience, and give all your best on stage at 100 percent!

Yaroslav, what do you think is more important - ability or work? Are your achievements easy for you?

I'm sure both are equally important. One work in art, probably, is not enough, something like this should be inherent in a person from the very beginning. Well, without effort, what is laid down may never develop into anything. But the ability, multiplied by work, must definitely bring results!

The 13-year-old participant of Skolkovo Jazz Science 2017 is just such an example.

The first festival, organized by Igor Butman and Arkady Ukupnik, was held in 2014 under the sky of Old Riga. Open concerts were held on the Dome Square, as well as performances by world stars in Arena Riga. This year, programs are planned at the same locations.

The list of participants of the World Jazz Festival 2016 includes young musicians and eminent masters from Russia and celebrities of international jazz!

Yaroslav Simonov

Yaroslava is a girl with a special life and musical history. Since birth, she has had vision problems, but watching her on stage, a strong feeling is created that it is jazz that helps her overcome difficulties. To date, she has already sung with legendary improvisational artists, has traveled to many countries around the world and regularly performs with the orchestra of Igor Butman, who is also her mentor.

Oleg Akkuratov

Oleg is a gifted pianist and an excellent vocalist! The soft timbre of the voice sounds smooth and unhurried. Oleg Akkuratov, blind from birth, devotes all his time to music and self-development, he writes his own works and skillfully creates arrangements of those that are close to him. The main thing that distinguishes Oleg from many musicians is a complete immersion in the creative process, and as a result, an unlimited love for music.

Mario Biondi

Mario Biondi admits that he is a big fan of soul. This is easy to guess, listening with what feeling he performs his compositions. The once successful producer Biondi began his solo career in 1988 in Japan. Then he sent his debut disc to the radio station, and after a while his song sounded all over Tokyo. it was a success. who accompanies Mario to this day. Mario Biondi, the owner of the warming timbre of his voice and refined manner of singing, is undoubtedly one of the best vocalists of our time!

Bob James

Romantic Jazz fans will be thrilled to hear Bob James at the World Jazz Festival 2016 this July! The pianist's music sounds just like a silk scarf develops from impulses of weak faith. Careful touching of the keys deprives the melody of nervousness and disposes the listener to itself. Bob James will perform his already well-known compositions in the style of smooth jazz and cheer up the audience with musical novelties!

Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela was one of the first Africans to achieve recognition in the United States. He received his first trumpet as a gift from Louis Armstrong, aided by his first teacher, Trevor Huddlestone. Masekela's early work is heavily influenced by African influences, but from the 1960s, when his jazz life began in New York, hard bop and soul began to predominate in his work. Later, Hugh Masekela returned to his musical "roots" and, having assembled the Union Of South African Band, began to perform jazz with an ethnic touch.

Orchestra of Igor Butman

The name of Igor Butman personifies Russian jazz at the international level! The Orchestra, founded by him in 1999, to this day successfully tours the world, demonstrating the high level of performance of each performer, presenting bright show programs and discovering new names in jazz. It is interesting that many soloists in the big band have their own author's projects, which are successfully developing against the backdrop of the rapid growth in popularity of the country's main jazz orchestra!

The 4th of October in the Concert Hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky will host the IV International Festival "Igor Butman and the future of jazz". On October 5-6, the Igor Butman Club on Taganka will host performances by festival participants.

With foreign participants of the fourth festival, the head of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, People's Artist of the Russian Federation saxophonist Igor Butman met during a tour of the United States and China in 2016. In February, at the invitation of the oldest conservatory in New York Juilliard School Igor Butman acted as a conductor of the student orchestra Julliard School Big Band where I met a promising trumpeter Anthony Harvey) and a drummer Cameron McIntosh). The game of a fourteen-year-old saxophonist prodigy CC Lee (Si Si Lee, full Chinese name Lan Xili) the maestro heard in the People's Republic of China in June during a performance at a major jazz festival in Shanghai - JZ Festival.

Yaroslava Simonova and Igor Butman (photo © Leonid Selemenev, 2016)

Russia will be represented in the project by no less talented participants, including a 12-year-old vocalist Yaroslav Simonov, graduates of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Gnesins, saxophonists and composers Daniil Nikitin And Anton Chekurov, a participant in large-scale international musical projects, double bass player and virtuoso trumpeter, as well as Jazz Orchestra of the Academy Maimonides.

At the end of the concert, the audience will have a jam session of young participants with musicians Moscow Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Igor Butman.

Anthony Harvey (trumpet, US)
Anthony Harvey - 19 year old trumpet player, student Juilliard School in New York, one of the most talented musicians of his generation, according to US Jazz Secretary Wynton Marsalis. Anthony solo in Grammy Jazz Band, Juilliard Jazz Ensemble And Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and also constantly participates in the projects of Wynton Marsalis. In 2013, Anthony received the award Young Arts Merit Award.
VIDEO: Anthony Harvey talk at National YoungArts Week 2016

Cameron McIntosh (drums, USA)
Cameron McIntosh - another student Juilliard School and soloist Juilliard School in New York, participating in the Future of Jazz program. At the age of 10, Cameron began studying with the legendary Joe Morello of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. In 2012, Cameron as part of Jazz House Kids participated in a jazz competition for schoolchildren. Charles Mingus in New York, where he was awarded the Outstanding Soloist Award, and in the same year became one of the top 30 young jazz musicians in the United States selected to participate in a prestigious educational project. The Grammy Cam p. In 2013, the ensemble with his participation, Jazz House Kids, won the competition Essentially Ellington at Lincoln Center.

Xi Xi Li (alto saxophone, People's Republic of China)
Lan Xili (Xi Xi Li), a 13-year-old virtuoso saxophonist from South China, began learning the saxophone at the age of seven from the country's top jazz musicians. In 2014 at the competition China Jazz he became a laureate in the nominations "Best Improvised Solo" and "Best Ensemble Playing". Despite his young age, CC is a resident of the major jazz festival JZ Festival in Shanghai, thanks to which he got a unique opportunity to perform with Victor Wooten, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Igor Butman, who highly appreciated the outstanding talent of the young man.
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Daria Chernakova (double bass)

A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, Daria Chernakova is one of the most sought-after double bass players on the Russian jazz scene. Jerry Bergonzi, Will Vinson, Gil Goldstein, Victor Lewis, Conrad Herwig, Juan Donato, Marcus Valle - this is an incomplete list of foreign stars with whom Daria performed and recorded. In 2013, she took part in the Big Jazz project on the Kultura TV channel. In a report from Aquajazz. Sochi Jazz Festival, the authoritative DownBeat magazine noted Chernakova's brilliant mastery of academic musical techniques, rhythmic flexibility and improvisational gift. Daria is a regular member of the bands of Yuliana Rogacheva (where her brother, pianist Alexei Chernakov, also plays), Vagif Sadikhov, the sextet of Ilya Morozov / Victoria Kaunova, and the Esh group.

Ivan Akatov (trumpet)

From 2002 to 2009, Ivan Akatov became a laureate of the All-Russian jazz competition-festival "Musical Collage" in the nominations "Piano", "Pipe" and "Ensemble". In 2013, Ivan graduated from the GMUEDI (Ordynka) in the trumpet class, in the same year he entered the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins and is currently studying in the 4th year.
Akatov regularly takes part in the projects of the following groups: Petr Vostokov's Big Jazz Orchestra, Orchestra 2.0 Anton Baronin, Allegro by Nikolai Levinovsky, Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman. Currently, Ivan is a regular member of the Academic Band Orchestra of Anatoly Kroll and the Sextet of Ilya Morozov / Victoria Kaunova. In 2015, the trumpeter became a laureate of the World of Jazz competition in Rostov-on-Don.

Daniil Nikitin (tenor saxophone)

Student of the jazz department of the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesinykh, winner of the Grand Prix of the IV International Jazz Festival-Competition of Young Performers "Gnesin-Jazz-2014" in the nomination "Instrumental Ensemble", as well as a laureate in the nomination "Best Instrumentalist of the Festival", in 2015 Daniil became the laureate of the second prize of the jazz saxophonists at the competition of the Academy. Gnesins "Voice of the Saxophone in the Modern World" and the first prize of the jazz competition "World of Jazz" in Rostov-on-Don, after which he was invited to take part in the festival Jazzar in the city of Aarau in Switzerland. Daniil is a regular participant in the projects of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra and a successful bandleader, presenting his own projects on the stages of the best clubs in the capital.

Anton Chekurov (saxophone)

Graduate of the Gnessin Academy of Music, composer, bandleader - and now the second alto saxophone of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra led by Igor Butman.
While studying at Gnesinka, Anton was the soloist of the "Akademik Band" led by Anatoly Kroll, won first prizes at the international competitions "World of Jazz" (2014), "Saxophone Voice in the Modern World" (2015), "Gnesin-Jazz-2015" . In 2016 on the label Butman Music Records Anton's solo album was released under the title " Extraordinary».
VIDEO: Anton Chekurov

Anatoly Korchagin (piano)

In 2011, Anatoly Korchagin graduated from college at the Yuzhnouralsk State Institute of Arts. P.I. Tchaikovsky in the class of academic piano and in the same year entered the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins to the pop department. From 2012 to 2015 was a soloist of the orchestra "Academic Band" p / u n.a. Russian Federation of Anatoly Kroll, in 2013 received the 1st prize at the Gnesin-Jazz competition as part of a jazz ensemble. In 2014, he won the first prize and diploma in the nomination "Best Instrumentalist" at the Gnesin-Jazz competition and the second prize at the World of Jazz competition in Rostov-on-Don. In 2015, he won the World of Jazz competition.

Yaroslava Simonova (vocals)

Yaroslava Simonova is a 12-year-old vocalist, pianist, composer and leader of her own group. Yaroslava began to show interest in the piano at the age of two. Possessing an absolute ear for music, at the age of six, Yaroslav entered the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. Tchaikovsky for the piano department. Most recently, she recorded her first disc, released on the label Butman Music- "Children's Album" P.I. Tchaikovsky, where she performed 24 classical works by the luminary of Russian music. However, classical music is not Yaroslav's only hobby. Jazz, and especially jazz vocals, is her separate passion! Thanks to the support and creative guidance of Igor Butman, who seriously contributes to the development of Yaroslava in this direction, the young artist, by the age of 12, was lucky enough to participate in major concerts in Russia, France and the USA, to perform on the same stage with outstanding Russian and foreign musicians, including Igor Butman, Nikolay Levinovsky, Vadim Eilenkrig, Andrey Makarevich, Sergey Mazaev, Oleg Akkuratov, Alex Sipyagin, Mireille Mathieu, José Feliciano, Conrad Herwig and others.

October 4, 19:00: "Igor Butman and the Future of Jazz", KZ them. Tchaikovsky. Triumphalnaya Square, 4 (m. Mayakovskaya)
Details and purchase of tickets - on the website of the Moscow Philharmonic
October 5-6, Igor Butman's Taganka Club: performances by festival participants, concerts start at 20:30. st. Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya, 21. In the building of the Taganka Theater (Taganskaya metro station). Order tickets by phone +7 495 792 21 09 or