Igor biography

At 11, he began to play a clarinet at a children's music school. However, the choice nevertheless made in favor of music, and in the city of Mussorgsky in the class of a saxophone. While still a student, Igor began playing in the ensemble of David Goloshchekin. Igor received the first recognition by jazz critics in the city in the Soviet Union, a country with a population of more than millions of people, Igor Butman was considered the best tenor-saxophonist, according to polls by jazz critics.

When Igor arrived in America at 26, he already had his own fan club, formed from the most famous and respected American jazzmen. In September, Igor Butman entered The Berklee College of Music, where he received a diploma in two specialties: a concert saxophonist and composer. Igor Butman performed with the ensemble of Crover Washington at many jazz festivals, as well as in the most prestigious Blue Note jazz club in New York.

Igor’s career in the United States developed rapidly. The famous actor and musician Michael Moriarty invited Igor to his quintet. Igor Butman moved to New York, where he began to perform with the orchestra of the famous vibrophonist Lionel Hampton. Igor for the first time during the emigration performed in Moscow at the International Jazz Festival. In May, in December, in and gg.

Igor Butman acted as a producer and organizer of independent jazz festivals in Moscow with the participation of Russian and foreign musicians. Simultaneously with the orchestra, the quartet of Igor Butman also arose, which included the pianist Anton Baronin, smuggler Vitaly Solomonov and drummer Eduard Zizak originally played. The joint performances of the jazz orchestra Igor Butman and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra orchestra, under the control of Winton Marsalis, held on September 18 and 20 at the opening of the new jazz season at the Lincoln Center in New York, were the incredible sensation.

For the first time in the history of Russian jazz, a concert of such a high level and scale took place. Igor Butman became the first Russian jazz musician to release his album on Universal Music Russia. In gg. In the year, the saxophonist received a golden disc from the National Federation of phonogram manufacturers for selling more copies of the album in Russia. Igor Butman leads his own Butman Music recording label, which produces albums of Russian-American jazz projects, is the founder of one of the leading jazz centers in Moscow-Igor Butman's jazz club on Taganka.

Igor Butman is not only a recognized musician, but also a successful producer. The festival has been successfully held in Moscow for more than 20 years, as well as its concerts are held in St. Petersburg, Tula and Stavropol Territory. Of particular importance for the popularization of Russian jazz music in the world deserves the annual Jazz Across Borders International Fest Forum in St.

Petersburg-one of the largest events in Europe dedicated to professional issues of the jazz industry. Every year, the Fest Forum, held in the fourth time, gathers more participants-musicians and professionals of the jazz industry from around the world. Thanks to Jazz Across Borders, dozens of domestic groups presented their art to foreign producers and organizers and got the opportunity to speak at the largest jazz festivals in the world.

In the year, Igor Butman became the director of the State School of Brave Arts, on the basis of which the first and only Jazz Academy in Russia was opened in the year - a unique phenomenon in the domestic system of musical education. The main goal of the Academy is the transformation into a qualitatively new educational institution, the basis of the model of which is the principle of continuity of various levels of education: the main general, additional, secondary, higher, higher and training of higher qualifications.

Teachers of the Jazz Academy are outstanding Russian musicians of both jazz and academic directions, soloists of the best domestic jazz and symphonic orchestras, professors and honored artists of the Russian Federation. The collectives and soloists of the Academy regularly participate in competitions, concerts, festivals of the city and federal levels. The promising goals of the Academy are the development of scientific, methodological, educational, creative potential, the expansion of the geography of work through a system of exchange of experience between teachers, students, creative groups of the Academy and representatives of other domestic and foreign educational institutions.

At the invitation of Igor Butman, outstanding jazz musicians held their master classes at the Academy: American singer, winner of the Grammy Award Patty Ostin, winner of the 3rd Grammy awards and the Emma Awards Robert Glazpers, the year students of the Academy took part in the master class of the holder of 5 premiums “Grammi” Diane Reeves. Igor Butman is the only Russian musician who, at the invitation of the Institute of Jazz named after He became the first Russian cultural figure, awarded this award.Together with the Moscow jazz orchestra, under the control of Butman, the Americans from Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra and their legendary leader, trumpeter, awarded Grammy and also the Pulitzer Prize, Winton Marsalis, entered the Kremlin.

The recording of the album was attended by Russian and American musicians. In the year, on the initiative of the Igor Butman Foundation, a federal program for celebrating the centenary of Russian jazz was implemented. The main gala concert was held at the Bolshoi Theater, a documentary was shot about the history of the Russian jazz Jazz, and the book of the same name of the authorship of Kirill Moshkov was released, a series of concerts of the centenary of Russian jazz “From Kaliningrad to Sakhalin”, etc.

In the year, Igor Butman was in the Book of Records of Russia, having held consistent concerts for the summer of Russian jazz. At the initiative of Igor Butman and under his artistic leadership, the largest jazz festival of Russia and one of the largest in the world - the Moscow Jazz Festival, is held in the capital.