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Pianist VALERI GROHOVSKI - born in Moscow, Russia, received his musical training and doctorate from the prestigious Gnessin Music schools. After winning a national piano competition in the former U.S.S.R. he was permitted to compete abroad where he proceeded to win numerous competitions in both Europe and the United States. Valeri Grohovski has performed extensively around the world, awing audiences with his unique combination of formidable classical repertoire and his virtuoso jazz improvisations. "I haven't come across Grohovski before (born Moscow in 1960 and currently professor and artist-in-residence at San Antonio University in Texas), but I was happy to make his aquaintance. This is the sort of Bach playing which makes you glad to be alive - rhythmically exuberant, jaunty tempos, no heavy-handed reverence - in music that frequently sends both hands scurrying after each other round the keyboard. Yet the wistful, late-night musing that Grohovski brings to the slow movement of the Italian Concerto and the Sarabande in the fifth partita, for example, is most affecting. Lovely disc." Bel Air BAM Jeremy Nicholas from CLASSIC FM magazine, November 2002 "Valeri Grohovski is that rarest of musicians: he plays always with perfect taste." Tatiana Petrova, President Gnessin Music College "One of the finest classical pianists in the world, Valeri Grohovski accomplishes what few others would even attempt when he crosses freely from classical into jazz - without an accent!" Christopher Wilkins, Conductor San Antonio Symphony "Valeri is a consummate musician whose diversity is without peer. There simply is not another pianist in the world who is classically competitive and the envy of jazz pianists who have devoted their lives solely to jazz performance." James Biotos "Recent memory can conjure few concerts to match the exhilaration and musical depth of pianist Valeri Grohovski's performance Saturday night at the Instituto de México in a program of jazz standards and jazz interpretations of J.S. Bach (...) His penchant for complexity and superhuman speed was audible in Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things," he spun interweaving lines that one might have thought executable only by a computer-controlled piano." Review from the San Antonio Express on 9/30/2003 by Mike Greenberg, Express-News Senior Critic SERGEY MANOUKYAN - one of the best known and most popular jazz singers in Russia. As a multi-instrumentalist - especially, pianist and drummer - he played with almost all Russian jazz musicians as well as foreign jazz musicians who tour Russia. Armenian by birth he lived for many years in Chechnya and Estonia before moving to Moscow. A very popular songwriter himself he has his songs performed, for example, by Earth, Wind and Fire and Wendy Waldman among others. ANTON REVNIOUK - one of the most popular Russian jazz bassists, he's always in demand as a concert and session musician. Track List: 1. My Funny Valentine 2. 'Til There Was You 3. It was Just One Of Those Things 4. Stella by Starlight 5. Beautiful Love 6. I Loves You Porgy 7. Living A Lie 8. How Long Has This Been Going On 9. The Man I Love 10. My One And Only Love Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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