Sergey Nikolaevich Starostin (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Старостин; born 1 January 1956 in

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) is a

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and

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composer and performer of

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and Tuvan folk music. He sings and plays the

kalyuka The willow flute, also known as sallow flute (, or ''sälgpipa'', or ''pajupilli'', , ), is a Nordic folk flute, or whistle, consisting of a simple tube with a transverse fipple mouthpiece and no finger holes. The mouthpiece is typically cons ...

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, pyzhatka,

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s and

gusli The ''gusli'' (, , , ''husla'') is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Its roots lie in Veliky Novgorod in the Novgorodian Republic. ...

Biography

In his early childhood, Starostin sang in a boys choir led by Vadim Sudakov. He started to play clarinet in school, and later graduated from Merzlyakov college of music, and then from the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...

. After graduation, he switched to playing folk instruments. By mid-90s, he collaborated with jazz musicians

Mikhail Alperin Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Юхи́мович Альпе́рін; 7 November 1956 – 11 May 2018), usually credited as Misha Alperin, was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Tr ...

and

Arkady Shilkloper Arkady Shilkloper (; born 17 October 1956) is a Russian multi-instrumentalist ( horn, alphorn, flugelhorn, corno da caccia, didgeridoo, shofar, and others) and composer, currently living in Berlin. He is known as one of the best jazz performe ...

, forming a

Moscow Art Trio Moscow Art Trio (established in 1990) is a Russian trio comprising Arkady Shilkloper (French horn & flugelhorn), Misha Alperin (piano & vocals) and Sergey Starostin (vocals, clarinet & folkreeds), performing in the Classical/Jazz/Traditional m ...

group, and mixing together jazz and traditional music. In his songs, Starostin avoids harmonising, staying within certain scales rather than sticking to chord patterns, which makes jazz played this way more "compatible" with traditional folk music. As of 2011, Starostin moved from jazz and rock compositions back to traditional folk performances. He participated in folk music research expeditions, and recorded thousands of songs. In 1991, Starostin produced a series of TV programs called ''World Village'', and as of 2008, runs a different program named ''Wanderings of a musician'' on

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. In 2006, he worked as a producer for the animated feature film ''Prince Vladimir''. While many CDs and concert programs feature Starostin playing "Rozhok", it worth mentioning that actually he plays not the folk wooden trumpet, known as a Rozhok, but a "Tverskoy Rozhok", which is a reed instrument, is also known as zhaleyka.

Selected discography

* Fly, Fly My Sadness (1996) - together with Angelite - The Bulgarian Voices,

Huun-Huur-Tu Huun-Huur-Tu ( ; ) are a music group from Tuva, a Russian federative republic situated on the Mongolia–Russia border. Their music includes throat singing, in which the singers sing both a note and its overtones, thus producing two or three ...

and

* XIX98 (1998) - with

and

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* Prayer (1998) - with

and

* Much Better (1998) - with Volkovtrio,

Igor Butman Igor Mikhailovich Butman (; born 27 October 1961) is a Russian jazz saxophonist born in St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1961. Butman holds dual citizenship for both the United States and Russian Federat ...

Kaigal-Ool Khovalyg Kaigal-ool Kim-oolovich Khovalyg (born 20 August 1960) is a Tuvan throat singer and co-founder of the Tuvan music group Huun-Huur-Tu. A self-taught overtone singer, Khovalyg worked as a shepherd until the age of 18. His musical career began ...

and others * Once There Was Sun (2000) * Neath The Moon So Bright (2001) - with

and Svyatoslav Kurashov * DOM concert (2007) * Душеполезные Песни На Каждый День (2008) - with Andrey Kotov,

and Leonid Fedorov * Хождение по Лукам (2009) - with

and Svyatoslav Kurashov

References

External links

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