Igor Ivanushkin

Russian jazz bassist. Igor's professional career in music started when being a student of the Gnessins' Music College in Moscow. Having graduated from the college and then from the Gnessins' Russian Academy of Music, Igor played with Igor Bril and New Generation ensemble for 5 years (late 1980-s - early 1990s). During following years he performed with the big band and combo led by Aleksandr Sukhikh (resulted in a tour in Austria), in Vyacheslav Preobrazhensky Jazz Band (Pori Jazz Festival, Finland), etc. Participating in gigs organized as a cultural exchange between Russia an Ireland he performed in Dublin. He has an engagement with russian (now living in Berlin) trumpet player Igor Shirokov for all the Russian performances. Igor is a participant and laureate of numerous international festivals, including ones in Indonesia (1991, 1995), winner of Grand Prix of competition of jazz performers in Bucharest (Romania), laureate of International competition of jazz musicians in Brussels (1990), laureate of the 1st All-Russian competition of young jazz musicians (Rostov-on-Don). Igor is also a participant of Arkady Shilkloper quartet (2001). 2002, he performed at the Odessa Jazz Carnival in Odessa, Ukraine with the great Israeli saxophonist Roman Kunsman at what happened to be Mr. Kunsman's final performance shortly before his death.