Eldar Djangirov
Eldar Djangirov ( born January 28, 1987 in the Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union) is a jazz pianist.
Biography
Even as a three year old Djangirov piano began to play. His father, an avid jazz fan, noticed that his son was able to play by ear shots exactly on the piano at the age of five years. Given his talent, his parents decided now to teach him professionally: His father taught him to play the piano, while his mother, a music teacher, taught him music history at a school in Bishkek. Although there were Eldar Djangirov conveys far more classic and traditional playing techniques, Djangirov followed the preferences of his father and developed a serious interest in jazz, particularly for his pioneering such as Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. When he took part in a Jazz festival in Novosibirsk in 1996, he was discovered by the American jazz enthusiast Charles McWhorter, who allowed Eldar training at the " Interlochen Center for the arts" in Michigan. Before leaving the Djangirovs their homeland and moved in 1998 to Kansas City in the United States.
McWorther recommended Djangirov in the aftermath of his girlfriend Marian McPartland. When she heard a recording of the young artist, she was impressed by his skills and invited him into their weekly broadcast of the radio network NPR series " Piano Jazz ". Then hired the renowned Columbia Broadcasting System radio stations him once for his show " Sunday Morning". Through the performed at the " Jazz Musician Foundation " learned Djangirov Michael Greene, the president of the " National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences ", know which organized the young pianist a performance at the " Grammy Awards telecast " in 2000. At this time Djangirov also took part in two major jazz piano competitions that he could both win.
With only 15 years Eldar George Gershwin playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the "Independence Symphony Orchestra" and had, inter alia, a guest appearance with the " Nebraska Jazz Orchestra".
Music style
Eldar Djangirov has learned since his time in the U.S. jazz harmony, improvisation, big band and composition. Today, he studied at the " University of Southern California". Djangirov is considered extremely virtuoso pianist who has acquired a style between Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. He had the fastest hands in jazz and let Russian ballads with the American Razzle Dazzle merge.
In addition to mostly jazz standards, he takes loud "Welt am Sonntag" with verve and youthful pace, he plays sometimes even their own compositions. Djangirov sprudle thereby produce the incursions, as if he could hardly wait for the next afterwards send an idea.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Eldar (March 2005)
- Re -Imagination (June 2007)
- Virtue (August 2009)
- Three Stories (April 2011)
- Breakthrough ( April 2013 )