Alex Sipiagin
September 15, 2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm LTV Media Center 75 Industrial Road Wainscott, NY, 11975 View Venue Website
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Alex Sipiagin
September 15, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
“Alex Sipiagin is an amazing musician — truly a multifaceted composer, arranger, producer, a wonderful lead trumpet player, and most of all, a completely original trumpet and flugelhorn soloist. As an improviser, he blends his Russian-American background into something unique which, quite frankly, astounds me every time I hear him” — Randy Brecker, trumpeter.
Jazz Festivals worldwide have seen Alex Sipiagin performing with the likes of Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, the Mingus groups, etc. Born on June 11, 1967 in Yaroslavl, Russia, Alex began studying the trumpet at age 12, studying at the Moscow Music Institute and the Gnessin Conservatory in Moscow where he received his Baccalaureate. In 1990, Alex participated in the International Louis Armstrong Competition sponsored by the Thelonius Monk Institute in WashingtonD.C. winning top honors, and soon after relocated to the jazz mecca of the world, New York City.
Alex has been nominated and/or won the Grammys (Dave Holland Big Band’s “What Goes Around,” and “Overtime,”Michael Brecker’s Qindectet “Wide Angles”).
As a soloist, Sipiagin has eleven recordings out to his credit and has toured extensively throughout Europe, U.S., Japan, and Russia with his own group. He also teaches at the Groningen Prince Claus Conservatory, Academy of Music, Basel, Switzerland as well steady professorship at NYU.
Recorded 15 solo albums for one for the prestigious jazz label “CrissCrossJazz”
The recent album of his compositions and arrangements “Balance 38-58” features such noted musicians as Eric Harland, David Binney, Adam Rogers, and Matt Brewer.
Alex soon became a favored player for various bands including the Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Goldstein’s Zebra Coast Orchestra, the George Gruntz ConcertJazz Band, drummer Bob Moses’ band Mozamba, Mingus Big Band as well as the Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Orchestra, and the Dave Holland Big Band, Sextetand Octet groups.
In 2003 he recorded with Michael Brecker’s Quindectet touring also with the Michael Brecker Sextet. Alex has also worked with Eric Clapton, Dr.John, Aaron Neville, Elvis Costello, Michael Franks, Dave Sanborn, Deborah Cox, legendary producer Phil Ramone, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, etc., and many of the recordings he has been involved in