Alexander Alexandrov

Alexander Alexandrov (b. 1957) is a Russian bassoonist, rock and jazz musician, composer. He had been playing with Aquarium (1977-79/1979-81), Zvuki Mu (1986) and Tri-O (since the late 1980s). Alexander was born in a family of professional musicians, so he started playing piano and clarinet since early childhood. He studied at the Mussorgsky Music College and met Aleksandr Lyapin there (later they played together in Nu, Pogodi! band). In 1975, Alexandrov started working as a musician at the Erik Goroshevsky's Theater of Real Art, where he became friends with Seva Gakkel and other members of Aquarium. Alexander joined the band in 1976. After returning from a compulsory military service in 1979, he entered the Leningrad Conservatory and returned to Aquarium, performing with a band for two more years and participating in the Tbilisi-80 festival. Since 1980, Alexander got more interested in jazz. He played with Sergey Kuryokhin and Anatoly Vapirov in Modern Jazz Trio in 1980-84. After moving to Moscow in 1986, Alexandrov joined Zvuki Mu band. He took part in recording sessions for the sole album of Sven Gundlach's Central Russian Upland band at the end of 1986. Since the end of the 1980s, Alexandrov regularly works with Sergey Letov in avant-jazz ensemble Tri-O. He has been composing soundtracks for German and French documentaries/popular science films since the 1990s.