Evgeniy Borets - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips.
Born on 12 August 1969, Volgograd
Pianist, head of the trio. Since the second half of the 80s, he was a leading jazz musician in Kazan.
In 1993 he graduated from the Kazan Conservatory, piano, made his debut as a jazz pianist with a solo program at the Kazan Jazz Crossroads festival. He considers Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk and Michel Petrucciani to be his idols. In 1988–93 he was a member of the most famous ensemble of the city - the Kazan quartet (Mikhail Savin - saxophones, Andrey Falko - bass guitar, Ildar Nafigov - drums). In 1993 he received a special prize from the Polish Jazz Academy at the Jazz Juniors competition in Krakow. In 1994, after M. Savin left jazz, he organized the BoNaSo trio (abbreviation - Borets-Nafigov-Solodovnikov), with the help of which he managed to revive jazz life in the capital of Tatarstan after the "death" of the annual festival "Jazz Crossroads". Held a series of concerts with guest soloists, among them were David Goloshchekin, Igor Butman, Arkady Shilkloper, Daniil Kramer, Nikolai Panov, Andrey Kondakov. He took part in many Russian festivals, in 1997 he received the 2nd prize at the Pianello val Tidone competition (Italy), in 1998 he was a producer of the Saratov Jazz Festival. In 2000 he moved to Moscow with the trio.
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