Balalaika-Partners

Partners

This is about the partners of Alexander Paperny when he plays together.

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Accompaniment by guitar

Satoshi Oba, was born in Kawasaki (Japan). He has studied in Hamburg with Prof. Klaus Hempel, and won numerous international guitar competitions (Tokyo, Paris, Almuñecar - Spain) which led to appearances in many countries of Europe and in Japan. He attended master-classes with José Luiz Gonzales, Oscar Ghiglia, Roberto Aussel, Eriot Fisk and Julian Bream, and recorded for radio- and television companies like NDR, ZDF, ORTF, SWR,Radio Bremen, and NHK.
In Latin America, Denmark and Yugoslavia he has performed as a guest with the ensemble for new music "Chaosma", in Austria, in Switzerland with the ensemble "Intégrales". His present musical concern is collaboration with composers and interpreters who are especially interested in contemporary music.

	Vladimir Fridman has worked in Moscow in several theaters, such as the world-famous Khudozhestvenny and in Satyricon. In 1992, he joined Jazz-balalaika band where he met Alexander Paperny, with whom he also performed as a duo. He moved to the USA in 1998, where he pursued a solo career. Vladimir frequently performs solo and with leading musicians of Washington, DC at various venues, including the Kennedy Center. From 1999, he has been working with Gypsy Strings quartet, with which he recorded the Ole Guapa CD.
	This CD won the 16th Annual Washington DC Area Music Award (WAMMIES) in the World Music Recording category. Vladimir also recorded a solo CD, Russian Romances where he sings his favorite Russian ballads. Vladimir teaches guitar in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and also founded his own guitar studio. Many of his students regularly win awards in the Maryland State Guitar Competitions.

For many years André Krikula has been part of the German music scene as a professional musician. His work with the Brazilian group "CACHACA" and the release of the CDs "CRIACAO" and "MATAMA-HISTORIAS" made him well known in the field of World Music as a performer and composer of Brazilian Music.
1975-82 Study of classical guitar at the Hamburg High School of Music with Professor Klaus Hempel.

Accompaniment by bajan

	Waldemar Gudi, born 1967 in Serenda, Kazakhstan.
	1979-1982 Music school in Serenda. His first teacher was Victor Jung. 1982-1986 Music College with Jacob Gebert. 1985 First prize at the Bayan Competition of the Kazakh Republic. 1988-1993 Studies at the Voronezh High School of Music in Russia with Alexander Sotnikov. 1985 First prize Competition for Bayan Players in Kazakhstan. 1992 Second prize Competition of Musical High Schools in Russia. 1997 Seventh prize International Accordion Competition at Reinach (Switzerland).
	Since 1995 Living in Hamburg. Since 1997 Teaching at Johannes Brahms Conservatory. Since 1998 Duo with Alexander Paperny (Balalaika). Since 1999 Duo with Horea Krishan (Pan Flute). Since 2000 Duo with Alexander Suslin (Double Bass). Since 2000 Conductor of the Hamburg Accordion Orchestra M.S. Schneider.

Accompaniment by piano

Eugenia Podolich Born in Ukraine and studied
at the Governmental Institute of Arts in Kharkov.
Immigrated to Israel in 1991.
Since 1993 Evgenia performs as accompanist with singers
and instrumentalists.
In 1996 she has founded Tzlilim ensemble,
which consists of varying chamber groups.

	Boris Pogreb, born in 1951, began his studies of the piano at the age of seven with Prof.Heimann in Dnepropetrovsk. From 1966 on further studies with Prof. Milstein and Prof. Bechterev at the world famous "Tchaikovsky Conservatory" in Moscow. In 1976 he took his degree as musicologist and music teacher.
	In the following years active as pianist, conductor, and editor-in-chief of music with "Rosconcert", then the Soviet Union's leading concert agency. After the political change, head of the music and the theater sections of "PRO", an artists' alliance in Moscow.

In 1998 he settled in Hamburg. Widespread concert activities as soloist and member of ensembles with works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin,

Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Scott Joplin.

			1969 am Moskauer Tschaikowsky-Konservatorium, wo er unter anderem vom Professor Dmitri Kabalewski ausgebildet worden war. 1990 wanderte er nach Deutschland aus. S. Kolmanovski komponiert Musik verschiedenster Genres. Seine Musicals werden noch jetzt in Russland aufgeführt, aber auch Kompositionen anderer Genres: Kammer- und sinfonische Musik wurden sowohl in Russland als auch in Deutschland gespielt, gesendet, veröffentlicht und bei diversen Komponisten-Wettbewerben mit Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter das Streichquartett „Träume der Kindheit“ 1993 bei einem deutschen Wettbewerb für Streichquartette, die Kinder spielen können, und 1996 die Komposition „Abend im Zigeunerlager“ bei einem Salonmusikwettbewerb. Zweimal bekam er ein Stipendium (von der Beljaeff- und der Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman-Stiftung).
	Sergei Kolmanovski Geboren am 7.07.1945 in Moskau. Sein Studium beendete er im Jahre		In der letzten Zeit ist er besonders oft auch als Pianist und Musikmoderator tätig.

Vocal

Wolf Leichsenring, born 1946 - vocal music

With a career that started with Church music, he then managed to move into Opera in 1983.
For over 12 years he worked with the "Konzertanten" opera house in Hamburg, which was then followed by noumerous engagements in the Mecklenburg State theatre in Neustrelitz.
His current musical focus is on the Opera in Luebeck.
Alongside these activities he has been a member of the "Andrejew" ensemble for many years, which focuses on Russian folk and church music.
He has vast experience both as a soloist and ensemble singer from noumerous concert performances. For this reason he has been asked to take part in other venues as a guest singer such at the cathedral in Kolberg (Poland) an at the Summer Operetta house in Luebeck.

Wolf Leichsenring	Tel.: 04531/67609
Fuchsberg 14	Fax 04531/897090
23843 Bad Oldesloe	mob.: 0173/7671810	email: wolf@leichsenring.net