Biography
Sergey Starostin, Svyatoslav Kurashov and Vladimir Volkov.
Clarinetist, folk reeds player and - last but not least - singer Sergei Starostin was born on January 1, 1956 in Moscow. He received his first musical education in a boy's choir before studying clarinet at the Moscow Conservatory. Quite early on he was interested in Russian folklore, particularly the rich traditions of Russian folk music, which he began to collect and study during his travels. Since 1982 he has given seminars and performed as a vocalist and player of traditional wind instruments. Since 1987 he has been introducing listeners to traditional music on his own radio programme in the Russian broadcasting system, and since 1991 he has directed a television programme on folk music in Moscow. As author and producer Starostin realized the "World Village Show," a programme on world music for Russian television. Through his affinity to Russian music and the music of the Lapps, he became acquainted with Mary Boine with whom he has made recordings in Moscow and Oslo. In 1990 Starostin augmented the Alperin / Shilkloper Duo to the Moscow Art Trio with which he performed in Europe, USA, Africa and Japan as a singer and instrumentalist.
Vladimir Volkov began to play jazz in the late 1970s. For 15 years he played in the legendary duet with Russia's most interesting trumpet player Slava Guyvoronsky. Volkov can play any kind of music. He plays avant-garde with the Moscow Composers' Orchestra, world music with the Vershki-Da-Koreshki group, high-energy guitar "new jazz' with his own group VolkovTrio, modern and traditional jazz with Andrei Kondakov and Igor Butman etc. It is remarkable that he stays true to himself - energetic virtuoso - in all genres. It was not for nothing that in the early 1990s Russian critics named him the best double-bass player of the former USSR. Boheme Music catalogue contains his records as a member of Andrei Kondakov's group and of a ethnic jazz trio with Arkady Shilkloper and Sergei Starostin.
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