Abstract Art vs Contemporary Music @ YaGallery, Dnipropetrovs’k

Yuri Yaremtchuk will appear in the musical section of the ВІДЧУВАЮ event at YaGallery in Dnipropetrovs’k on 16 Jan 2011. More details here: YaGallery

Yuri Yaremtchuk’s appearances at Jazz Bez 2010

Yuri Yaremtchuk will appear several times at the international Jazz Bez festival that has just started (2 Dec 2010). Among the planned appearances are duos with Aleksey Lapin on 8 Dec in Kharkiv and on 10 Dec in Lviv, as well as a (freshly added to the schedule) performance with Roman Ros’ and VJ Group «Cube» in Ivano-Frankivs’k on 5 Dec.
Visit the Dzyga site for more details:
http://dzyga.com/content/view/809/297/lang,ua/
http://dzyga.com/jazzbez/content/view/242/274/lang,ua/

Alexey Lapin, Yury Yaremchuk – “Anatomy of Sound”

A new CD by the duo of Alexey Lapin (piano) and Yury Yaremchuk (soprano sax, bass clarinet) is out on SoLyd Records. It is called Anatomy of Sound. A review by critic Dmitry Ukhov is here: http://jazzru.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/anatomy-of-sound/

FACTORY, May 13th 2010 @ Lviv

As part of the Скандальний Цех festival, the following quartet will perform on May 13th, 2010 in Lviv:

Yuri Yaremtchuk – reeds, percussion
Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko – reeds, percussion
Andrij Orel – guitar
Sergey Zelenskiy – bayan

The concert begins at 19.00 and the entrance is free.

Yuri Yaremtchuk, Roman Ros’, Zoryana Ros’ live @ Lumiere, Ivano-Frankivs’k

A concert is planned in Ivano-Frankivs’k at the Lumiere cinema on May 7th, 2010. It starts at 22.30 and the entrance is free.
The crew:
Zoryana Ros’ – vocals
Yuri Yaremtchuk – bass clarinet, soprano sax, percussion
Roman Ros’ – violin, sopilka, percussion.

Yuri Yaremtchuk, Ilia Belorukov, Andrij Orel – “Conditions” (2010)

An album by this trio is out on re:konstruKt!
Information on this album and on the participants can be found here (listen to the full first track on this page) and here.

The album got a **** review here:

Going beyond jazz, entering a gentle and improvised dialogue of sound and timbral explorations, this album shows the direction for many of new albums to come, from this band and others. The sounds are gentle, as described by the musicians themselves “careful and carefree”, like a pointillist painting, with simple and soft colored dots creating a broad-sweeping yet intimate landscape, but here in a purely abstract context. There is no discernable melody nor rhythm, yet the whole album is relatively accessible. Yuri Yaremchuk plays tenor & soprano saxophones, and bass clarinet, Ilia Belorukov plays alto saxophone, and Andrij Orel plays “cheap acoustic guitar”, and other objects. The music is inherently creative, and holds the middle between meditative pieces and free improv, very direct yet sensitive and surprising, with a strange aesthetic beauty. Despite its avant-garde and innovative approach, it is all very inviting.

© stef

Dzyga Podcast with Yuri Yaremtchuk

On November 25th 2009 Yuri Yaremtchuk read a lecture in Lviv’s “Kabinet” bookshop/cafe and illustrated it with some of his music as well as music by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. You can see the summary as well as download/listen to a podcast of it here.

YATOKU @ NOZART 2010

News item straight from Klaus Kugel:

YAREMCHUK-TOKAR-KUGEL
Yuri Yaremchuk – soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
Mark Tokar – double bass
Klaus Kugel – drums

Upcoming concert:
March-06-2010, Festival NOZART XIV, Cologne, Germany

Actual CD on NotTwo Records:
YATOKU
Listen to an excerpt here: http://klauskugel.com/mp3/YaToKu.mp3
Order here: http://nottwo.com/PelnaPlyta.php?Id=322&W=0

Doneda, Yaremtchuk, Blondy, Nakatani

The new quartet of Michel Doneda, Yuri Yaremtchuk, Frédéric Blondy and Tatsuya Nakatani will have several concerts in December 2009 as part of the Jazz Bez festival.
The dates:
December 7th – quartet performance in Lublin
December 8th – jam session in Lviv involving the full quartet + Mark Sanders, Mark Tokar, Mikołaj Trzaska, Vaclav Zimpel (@ Dzyga, after the end of a performance by Bez Spogadiv which starts at 20.00)
December 10th – quartet performance in Lviv (@ Mariya Zan’kovec’ka Theatre)
December 11th – quartet performance in Sanok
All performances except the jam session start at 19.00.

Yuri Yaremchuk, Ilia Belorukov, Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko live @ Dzyga

This trio, featuring Russian saxophone player Ilia Belorukov, will perform in Dzyga, Lviv, on November 19th. The concert begins at 19.30.