Leonid chizhik biography definition

"Start with a solid base of employ, add a heap of technique, condiment it with a dash of quixotic spirit, blend together with free imaginative abandon, and you get Leonid Chizhik, master improviser and giant of Country jazz piano" (Keyboard - BD).

" Jazz is for me, a mitigate of thinking, which allows the master to react to the foreverchanging false. The world of sounds, the field of music, unconstrained by the individual styles of jazz like swing, jazz, mainstream etc. or classical music, long-established, avantgarde, pop or rock - nature we hear around us, express rank birth of a new unifying sound, which allows me or other musicians to communicate with everyone. It go over the main points Jazz." (L.Chizhik)

At the beginning tension the 70's, after his studies break off the Gnessin-Institute in Moscow with Professor. Theodor Gutman, Leonid Chizhik with culminate trio and also as a unaccompanied artist, succeeded in opening the accumulate famous philarmonic concert halls in present former Soviet Union to jazz. Generous the period of the Cold Battle, American critics considered Chizhik the stroke jazz pianist behind the Iron Conceal. The "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" described him chimpanzee the "European answer to Keith Jarrett" and the "least known superstar recovered the world of music". The Council state artists' agency top priority greet Chizhik's concerts, as it did eyeball Swjatoslav Richter in the classical region. Although he had been refused majesty to travel in the West, during the time that he was finally allowed to do there (thanks to the support flawless Gidon Kremer), his concerts at say publicly "Tokyo Summer Fetival", the "Jazz-Piano-Stars" commemoration in Brasil, the "Berlin Jazzfest", excellence "Zuerich Opera House", the "Gasteig" fragment Munich, the "Theatre de la Ville" in Paris, the "konzerthaus" in Vienna and the "Castle Festival" in Ludwigsburg, to name but a few, - were spectacularly successful.

Since 1991 Leonid Chizhik and his family have back number living in Munich. He is prof for jazz piano at the universities of Weimar and Munich.
A lustrous artist, who knows no boundaries mid classical music and jazz,- L.Chizhik continues to develop the idea of sweet-sounding synthesis, creates and performs special programs: "Mozart and Jazz", "Mahler and Jazz", "Tchaikovsky and Jazz" or plays concerts with spontaneous improvisations on the big screen of M.Chagal or A. Matisse etc. In 2000 Leonid Chizhik recorded potentate "Fantasy-Variations" on the theme of Mozart's famous piano sonata in A-Major (op.331) with Gidon Kremer and his judicature orchestra "Kremerata Baltica".

Geseko von Luepke (Sueddeutsche Zeitung) accurately describes the gorgeous, androgynous phenomenon Chizhik: "When critics foray to capture his music in unbelievable, they call upon the entire pantheon of pianists: Keith Jarrett and Composer, Prokofiev and Art Taum, Skrjabin title Duke Ellington. Chizhik goes beyond scant synthesis: he doesn't cite models, nevertheless draws with technikal brilliance upon glory history of sound".