Ukrainian musician, jazz performer. He is the organizer of the Cherkasy Jazz Days and Jazz Stagecoach jazz festivals, chairman of the board of the Krasheninnikov Creative Workshop NGO. Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Biography.
Serhiy Krasheninnikov was born on January 12, 1963 in Sverdlovsk. In 1977 he graduated from the music school in Lubny. He began playing jazz as a student at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. In 1985, he moved to Smila by assignment. At the Orison plant, he organized an amateur jazz ensemble, which became a laureate of many jazz festivals. He was one of the founders of the Cherkasy Jazz Club, organized the Cherkasy Jazz Days and Jazz Stagecoach jazz festivals. Together with Yuriy Hrankin, he organized a jazz duo and performed at the Jazz on the Oder festival (Wroclaw, Poland, 1992) and in numerous jazz clubs in Western Europe: in Poland (1992-1993), Germany and the Netherlands (1993-1994). He is the leader of a jazz trio with which he has recorded 7 albums. In April 2004, he toured the United States and gave a solo concert in Chicago.
In 1998, he became the chairman of the board of the Krasheninnikov Creative Workshop, a public organization that received grants from the International Renaissance Foundation to hold the Cherkasy Jazz Days festival and tour the Jazz. Object. Graphics". Organizer of numerous concerts of Ukrainian and foreign musicians in Cherkasy. Organizer and leader of the Cherkasy Jazz Quintet and Pelican Quartet projects. He is friends with Andriy Arnautov.
Co-owner of the YBK Records label.
Albums
MC:
"Nothing Much" (1996);
"Round About Jazz" (1997);
"Live in Benefis" (1997);
"A Remark You Made" (1997);
"Why not?" (1999);
"Krasheninnikov's Sessions" (2002);
"Live in Cherkassy" (2003);
CD:
"Wait for Me" (2004);
"We Like Funky-Jazz, and You ?..." (2005);
"From Spain to Brazil" (2006);
"Confirmation" (2006);
"Jazz Album in Two Parts with Prologue and Epilogue" (2007);
"Homage To Freddie Hubbard" (2009);
"Piano Kolo" (2009);
"Remembering The Beatles" (2009);
"Latin Soul" (2012);
"Give Me Back the Music" (2014)
"The Best Of Cherkasy Jazz Quintet" (2016)
"Counterpoint" (2016)
"Cherkasy Jazz Quintet Greatest Hits" (2017)
LP:
Cherkasy Jazz Quintet (2017)
JAZZ.UA Vol. 1 (2018)
