Igor Butman was a lot

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree entitled People's Artist of Russia, saxophonist Igor Butman for his services to music, said on Wednesday the Kremlin website. Butman was born 27th October 1961, in Leningrad. At age 11 began playing the clarinet in the children's music school. In 1976 he joined the School of Music Saxophone Mussorgsky. Another student played Butman started playing in the ensemble David Goloshekin in 1983 in the orchestra of Oleg Lundstrem, then the ensemble of "Allegro", and then went to the USA. In America Butman his band played at the leading jazz club in Boston, played with famous musicians. Butman in 1989 moved to New York, where he began performing with the orchestra of the famous vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. In 1993, the company Impromptu his first solo album, saxophonist Falling Out. For 11 years, produces Butman the largest jazz festival in Russia - "Triumph of Jazz" and as part of the Cultural Olympiad - a festival "AkvaDzhaz" in Sochi, runs his own record label Butman Music, is the head of two jazz centers in Moscow . For Excellence in June 2004 Butman was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art. Intermedia