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.

“Long Arms” festival @ DOM, Moscow

The duo of Aleksey Lapin (prepared piano) and Yuri Yaremtchuk (soprano sax, bass clarinet) with possible participation of Vladimir Shostak (double-bass) will perform on October 3rd in DOM, Moscow as part of the “Long Arms” festival.

Yuri Yaremtchuk & Andrij Orel duo live @ Dzyga, Lviv

Yuri Yaremtchuk and Andrij Orel will perform again in Lviv as a duo, this time in Dzyga (Virmenska st., 35, second floor), Lviv. The concert is scheduled to happen on June 18th at 19.30.

More performances planned for May/June 2009

Yuri Yaremtchuk will be performing as part of Sax-Mafia in St. Petersburg, Russia @ Art-Centre, Pushinskaya 10. The performance will be part of a festival that will take place on May 29th-31st.

Also, a quartet performance of M. Tokar – I. Gnydyn – N. Lytvynyuk – Y. Yaremtchuk is planned @ the Lviv Philharmonic on June 16th.

Live performances planned for April/May 2009

There are several performances planned involving Yuri Yaremtchuk in April/May 2009. We have some preliminary information right now, we’ll update this page when more details are available.

April 16th – S. Gurinovich – V. Zhilin – Y. Yaremtchuk trio live in Cherkasy, Ukraine
May 1st – M. Tokar – M. Tverdun – Y. Yaremtchuk – I. Gnydyn quartet live in Lviv, Ukraine (“Night Project” @ Flugery Lvova festival)
May 3rd – YATOKU trio live in Lublin, Poland
May 9th – Yuri Yaremtchuk & Andrij Orel duo live in Lviv, Ukraine (@ Muzej Idej, Valova str. 18a, concert starts at 18.00)

[UPDATED: 2009.04.28]

Audio interview @ Inshyi Zvuk

Ukrainian Uzhgorod-based radio show Inshyi Zvuk is dedicated to left-field, non-mainstream contemporary music of various kinds. In January Inshyi Zvuk took an interview with Yuri Yaremtchuk. The whole show with the interview can be downloaded here.
Visit and support Inshyi Zvuk @ LiveJournal and Myspace!

Yuri Yaremtchuk Trio live @ Dzyga, Lviv

On March 12th 2009 the Yuri Yaremtchuk Trio will perform live as part of the usual Jazz Club Thursday program. The performance will take place in Dzyga (Virmenska st., 35, second floor), Lviv.
The Yuri Yaremtchuk Trio are: Yuri Yaremtchuk (saxophones), Mark Tokar (contrabass), Igor Gnydin (drums).
The concert starts at 19.00.
The rest of the Jazz Club program for March can be checked out here.