Vadim Neselovskyi Trio ft Gary Burton and the Pletenitsa Balkan Choir

Vadim Neselovskyi Trio featuring Gary Burton and the Pletenitsa Balkan Choir in the Berklee Performance Center. Vadim's "Get Up and Go" was performed as part of the Concert for the Ukrainian People at the Berklee Performance Center on June 10, 2015.

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Gary Burton: vibes

Pletenitsa Balkan Choir
Christiane Karam: soprano/director
Inna Dudukina: tenor/student assistant
Harshitha Krishnan: soprano
Ana Maria Villa: soprano
Belyana Hristova: soprano
Lyusi Simon: soprano
Annalisa Lombardo: mezzo
Gina Michelle Buckner: mezzo
Dana Prtotsenko: alto
Ekaterina Tolkishevskaya: alto
Nadia Chechet: alto
Ernest Deriabin: tenor
Joakim Molander: bass
Kia Eshghi: bass

Vadim Neselovskyi Trio
Vadim Neselovskyi: piano
Dan Loomis: bass
Ronen Itzik: drums

Rob Rose: executive producer
Ed Liberatore: house sound
Mauricio Bernal: lighting
Santiago Banuelos: spot
Chris Higgins: spot
Yunyun Huang: stage crew

Filmed by Berklee Video Services
Reggie Lofton: video producer
Eli Chess: director/switcher
Ulises Estrada: video engineer
Simon Benegas: camera
Nicole Dillman: camera
Bailey Gordon: camera
Julie Almer: camera
Sara Pagiaro: editor

Vadim Neselovskyi, jazz piano

Pianist, composer, Berklee College of Music professor and former Gary Burton sideman. This Ukrainian-born pianist was classically trained at conservatories in his native Odessa and in Germany; honed his jazz chops on German jazz stages and at Berklee College of Music; and undertook his apprenticeship around the world as a member of master vibraphonist Gary Burton’s Next Generation Quintet. Burton, who included a number of Neselovski compositions in his repertoire, called him “a true genius,” noting “I don’t think I have ever met an improviser who has more surprises in store….” Discover a new jazz voice whose “pianistic power station” displays “virtuosity coupled with passion and soul” (Neue Musik Zeitung).

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Vadim Neselovskyi plays "All The Things You Are"

Live at Berklee Performance Center, September 27, 2011.
Pianist, Composer, Berklee Professor & Former Gary Burton Sideman
VADIM NESELOVSKYI
Releases First Solo Piano Recording & Sunnyside Records Debut
MUSIC FOR SEPTEMBER
Out March 26, 2013

Vadim grew up in Odessa, Ukraine

"More than just a strong pianist, he's a composer who blends form and freedom in new ways." - John Kellman, All About Jazz
  
"...extraordinary playing..." - Los Angeles Times

Critics have praised NY-based pianist/composer Vadim Neselovskyi for "extraordinary playing" (Los Angeles Times), "exceptional composition skills" (musicweb-international.com) and "feathery touch" (New York Times). While mostly known as one of the key members of multiple GRAMMY® winner Gary Burton's Quintet, and as a featured pianist and composer on Burton's Concord Records release "Next Generation," Vadim is rapidly gaining reputation as a band leader, creating a "thrilling blend of classical and jazz" (jazzreview.com)

Vadim grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, where he was the youngest student to be accepted into the famous Odessa Conservatory, and then moved to Dortmund, Germany when he was 17 years old. Shortly after arriving in Germany, he established himself on the local jazz scene, taking part in the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally and Leipzig Jazz Days. After a few years he moved to the USA to further his studies at Berklee College of Music, where he was discovered by Gary Burton.

Before graduating from Berklee Vadim was asked to play and compose for a Berklee's promotional recording produced by Pat Metheny. Four weeks after graduation he was playing with Gary Burton at the Blue Note in New York. Since June 2004 Vadim has been consistently touring the US, Europe and Japan in Gary Burton's quintet.

Vadim is developing a name for himself as a solo artist. His new CD, Music for September, produced by Fred Hersch received the following praise from Jazzpodium,"Although this reviewer is decidedly opposed to promotional labels like: 'The Chopin of the jazz piano' (as the Neue Musik Zeitung entitled him), this comparison however is not too far-fetched indeed.

Growing from a stalwart classical foundation, Neselovskyi's immense technique, powerful but crystal-clear touch and sparkling improvisations betray influences from Bach to John Lewis and Lenny Tristano. In short, Vadim serves as a living counter-example for musical pigeonholing. Neselovskyi deliberately places himself within the tradition of great solo piano, reimagining and enriching it with accomplishments of jazz and pop...His music is everything: composition, adaptation, interpretation.

And sometimes it's almost hard to distinguish where a standard is being played, where he's making an allusion and where it's actually a composition by Neselovskyi himself, who considers himself more a composer than a pianist."

Critics have praised NY-based pianist/composer Vadim Neselovskyi

Critics have praised NY-based pianist/composer Vadim Neselovskyi for “extraordinary playing” (Los Angeles Times), “exceptional composition skills” (musicweb-international.com) and “feathery touch” (New York Times). While mostly known as one of the key members of multiple GRAMMY® winner Gary Burton’s Quintet, and as a featured pianist and composer on Burton’s Concord Records release “Next Generation,” Vadim is rapidly gaining reputation as a band leader, creating a “thrilling blend of classical and jazz” (jazzreview.com)

Vadim grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, where he was the youngest student to be accepted into the famous Odessa Conservatory, and then moved to Dortmund, Germany when he was 17 years old. Shortly after arriving in Germany, he established himself on the local jazz scene, taking part in the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally and Leipzig Jazz Days. After a few years he moved to the USA to further his studies at Berklee College of Music, where he was discovered by Gary Burton. 

Before graduating from Berklee Vadim was asked to play and compose for a Berklee’s promotional recording produced by Pat Metheny. Four weeks after graduation he was playing with Gary Burton at the Blue Note in New York. Since June 2004 Vadim has been consistently touring the US, Europe and Japan in Gary Burton’s quintet. 

Besides working actively as a sideman, Vadim is developing a name for himself as a solo artist. His CD “Spring Song,” that features two charismatic singers Vera Westera(NL) and Amanda Baisinger (US), received enthusiastic reviews.

“The four musicians around Neselovskyi, Brazilian Pedro Ito (drums,percussion), Russian Oleg Osenkov on bass, American Eric Bloom (trumpet) and heart-breaking voice of Amanda Baisinger (also USA) offer a skillful, multifaceted – accessible, challenging yet entertaining mixture of jazz, classical and world music. This is jazz, how it should be – sometimes neck-breaking angular, sometimes wonderfully melodic and always supported by the grooving bass…the feminine voice of Amanda Baisinger often reaches whirling heights and speeds. Everything fits to the sparkling piano sound of Neselovskyi.” (www.cdkritik.de)

Vadim’s work has been recognized with a number of recent awards. Most recently, in September 2010 he was named a Grand Prize Winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition. Vadim performed the winning composition, Grust (Sadness) with his trio at the Kennedy Center on Ocotober 4, 2010 as part of the Gala Concert, also featuring Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling and Dianne Reeves. President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama served as Honorary Chairs of the event. 

“Garnering the $10,000 prize for his composition "Grust," which means ‘sadness' in Russian, Neselovskyi impressed with both the depth of his composition and a heartrending performance that stood out as an unquestionable highlight of the night.” (All About Jazz)

Just two weeks after the Prize Award Ceremony in Washington DC Vadim received another Award – Second Grand Prix (7.000 Euro) at the 5th Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition in Paris, France.

Critics have praised NY-based pianist/composer Vadim Neselovskyi....

Critics have praised NY-based pianist/composer Vadim Neselovskyi for “extraordinary playing” (Los Angeles Times), “exceptional composition skills” (musicweb-international.com) and “feathery touch” (New York Times). While mostly known as one of the key members of multiple GRAMMY® winner Gary Burton’s Quintet, and as a featured pianist and composer on Burton’s Concord Records release “Next Generation,” Vadim is rapidly gaining reputation as a band leader, creating a “thrilling blend of classical and jazz” (jazzreview.com)

Vadim grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, where he was the youngest student to be accepted into the famous Odessa Conservatory, and then moved to Dortmund, Germany when he was 17 years old. Shortly after arriving in Germany, he established himself on the local jazz scene, taking part in the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally and Leipzig Jazz Days. After a few years he moved to the USA to further his studies at Berklee College of Music, where he was discovered by Gary Burton. 

Before graduating from Berklee Vadim was asked to play and compose for a Berklee’s promotional recording produced by Pat Metheny. Four weeks after graduation he was playing with Gary Burton at the Blue Note in New York. Since June 2004 Vadim has been consistently touring the US, Europe and Japan in Gary Burton’s quintet. 

Besides working actively as a sideman, Vadim is developing a name for himself as a solo artist. His CD “Spring Song,” that features two charismatic singers Vera Westera(NL) and Amanda Baisinger (US), received enthusiastic reviews.

“The four musicians around Neselovskyi, Brazilian Pedro Ito (drums,percussion), Russian Oleg Osenkov on bass, American Eric Bloom (trumpet) and heart-breaking voice of Amanda Baisinger (also USA) offer a skillful, multifaceted – accessible, challenging yet entertaining mixture of jazz, classical and world music. This is jazz, how it should be – sometimes neck-breaking angular, sometimes wonderfully melodic and always supported by the grooving bass…the feminine voice of Amanda Baisinger often reaches whirling heights and speeds. Everything fits to the sparkling piano sound of Neselovskyi.” (www.cdkritik.de)

Vadim’s work has been recognized with a number of recent awards. Most recently, in September 2010 he was named a Grand Prize Winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition. Vadim performed the winning composition, Grust (Sadness) with his trio at the Kennedy Center on Ocotober 4, 2010 as part of the Gala Concert, also featuring Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling and Dianne Reeves. President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama served as Honorary Chairs of the event. 

“Garnering the $10,000 prize for his composition "Grust," which means ‘sadness' in Russian, Neselovskyi impressed with both the depth of his composition and a heartrending performance that stood out as an unquestionable highlight of the night.” (All About Jazz)

Just two weeks after the Prize Award Ceremony in Washington DC Vadim received another Award – Second Grand Prix (7.000 Euro) at the 5th Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition in Paris, France.

Press and Quotes

“…an extremely creative and wonderful composer…an exciting, original kind of player.”

Gary Burton

“Vadim Neselovskyi writes and plays graceful music with intelligence and passion. We all look forward to hearing much more from him, as he ventures further down the singular road he has found.”

Steve Swallow

“…extraordinary playing…”

Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times

“Vadim…sounds the most promising of the young improvisers.”

The Guardian

UPCOMING SHOWS

Piano Solo at JAZZ à SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS Festival

05.23.11 | TBA

Paris,France

Jazz Festival Goerlitz, Germany

05.27.11 | TB

Haus Sieckmann

05.29.11 | 8pm and 10pm

Sendenhorst, Germany

Vadim Neselovskyi Group feat. Vera Westera

Smalls Jazz Club

06.06.11 | 7:30-9:30

New York,NY

Piano Solo

Vadim Neselovskyi with Thomas Encho and Motion Brothers at Lille Piano(s) Festival

06.16.11 | TBA

Lille,France

Vadim Neselovskyi with Thomas Encho and Motion Brothers at Lille Piano(s) Festival

06.19.11 | TBA

Lille,France