VYACHESLAV GANELIN - Piano, Keyboards
He was born in Moscow in 1944. He graduated in 1968 from the State Conservatory Vilnius/Lithuania. In 1987 he left Lithuania. At presant Vyacheslav Ganelin lives in Israel.
He taught composition at the Vilnius State Conservatory, and he subsequently became Music Director of the Vilnius Russian Drama Theatre . Ganelin has written incidental and original music for more than 30 films with such noted directors as Abdarashidov, Hudiakov Zebriunas and Vabalas.
Ganelin wrote two operas which were produced by the Bolshoi, and a musical for children.
He was founder of "The Ganelin Jazz Trio".
REVIEWS
"Freud is to psychology as Ganelin is to Soviet Jazz."
"... passionate, vigorous, witty, elegant, vulgar, classsical, chaotic, surprising andtheatrical..."
"... Ganelin... nowadays one of the leaders of avant-garde jazz of the world.... Today there is no other musician like Ganelin in Israel ..."
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