Nikolai Dmitriev

born 1955

organizer of new music, production leader of new music festivals, tour manager, CD producer, music critic, journalist, editor, television and radio broadcaster of avant-garde music, and lecturer
He is cofounder of Long Arms Agency (together with Sergey Kuryokhin and Dmitry Rezvan) and member of the board of the Creative Union Laboratory

Contact:
Nikolay Dmitriev,
Balaklavsky prospect, 1-1,
Moscow, 113639, Russia
voice/fax (7-095) 316-0204
e-mail: longarms@avantart.com

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Biographical Notes

• Early 1980's - Nikolai Dmitriev actively participated in many aspects of artistic life in Moscow. This included the organization of concerts and festivals in small clubs, and reading lectures in various auditoriums covering subjects on traditional and contemporary music.
• 1984 - Dmitriev published his first article on music in a periodical journal. This led to a successful period of music journalism including essays, reviews and interviews. These appeared in daily journals, newspapers and specialized periodicals.
• Mid 1980's - He began to organize concerts and festivals beyond Moscow including Volgograd, Ekaterinburg, Smolensk and the provinces of Moscow.
• Late 1980's - Early 1990's - His concert and festival productions started to take shape from folklore to modern classical and avant-garde. During the same period a similar output level stretches to lectures and music reviews throughout the country. This includes a course of lectures "The theory and history of music", which was instigated in several higher educational institutes in Moscow. As well as this has read lectures on the theoretical problems of improvised music at music conferences.
• 1990 - Dmitriev broadcasts jazz programs on Russian radio.
• 1991 - He became joint producer of a monthly television jazz program "Jazz Time". He also joined the musicians union and the society of alternative literature.
• 1992 - He produced several documentaries on jazz for Russian television. He co-founded the "Cotton Club", a riverboat jazz club on the Moscow river.
• 1993 - 1994 - Dmitriev worked as active organizer of music festivals in Russia with a special emphasis on introducing more of European dimension in many major cities. These years was master of ceremonies at two Russian-German Festivals in Hamburg and Berlin. Introduced regular contemporary music concerts in conjunction with Russian TV, "Forward to the Past" , which has become a popular program.
• 1994 - 1995 - Nikolai Dmitriev became producer and manager of the Moscow Composers Orchestra. The group toured twice in Europe, performing in Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Finland, Russia and Switzerland. MCO has three CD’s, "Kings and Cabbages", "An Italian Love Affair" (Leo Records) and "Life at City Garden" (U-Sound). Dmitriev continues to be an active collaborator with festivals and tour management in both Europe and Russia.
• 1996 Long Arms Agency was founded in spring 1996 by Sergey Kuryokhin, Nick Dmitriev and Dmitry Rezvan.

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DETAILED SUMMARY

Editorials and publications:

1. "Delo" - independent journal ("samizdat") - 86-88
2. "Jazz" - official magazine of the Soviet jazz federation - 88-92
3. over 150 published articles

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Jazz films:

1. "Jazz in your pocket"- 88
2. "Soundcheck"- 92
3. "Workshop"- 92;
4. "Forwards to the Past" - 93
5. "Oral Cantata" - 95;
6. "Zen for Two" - upcoming release

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Television programms:

1. "Jazz Time" - 91
2. 2. "A Program" - 93-94

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Radio broadcasts:

1. "Sounds of Jazz" (Soviet Radio) - 89-91
2. "Jazz Salad" ( 'Echo of Moscow') - 92-94
3. "Free Flight"(Radio Panorama Moscow) - 94-95
4. BBC Radio 3 - 92
5. 2 programs on Swedish Radio - 94

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CD production:

1. "Kings and Cabbages" by MCO (Leo Lab Rec) - 94
2. "Life At City Garden" by MCO (U-Sound) - 95
3. "An Italian Love Affair" by MCO (Leo Lab Rec) - 96
4. "Dear John Cage" by Sergey Kuryokhin and Keshavan Maslak (Long Arms Rec) - 96
5. "Real Life of Plants" Vershki Da Koreshki (Long Arms Rec) - 97
6. "Just Opera" by Sergey Kuryokhin (Long Arms Rec) - 97

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Recording Liner Notes:

1. "WaltzAtto" by Lithuanian Art Orchestra (Sonore Rec ) - 93
2. "ATTO 8" by Vladimir Tarasov ((Sonore Rec) - 93
3. "ATTO 5" by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 94
4. "ATTO 6" by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 94
5. "ATTO 3" by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 94
6. "ATTO 1" by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 94
7. "ATTO 2" by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 94
8. "Kings and Cabbages" by MCO (LeoLab Rec) - 94
9. "There's Always A Hope" by Vapirov-Tavitian duo (AVA Rec) - 94
10. "Sketches" by Vapirov-Tarasov duo (AVA Rec) - to be released
11. "Opened Silence" by Vapirov-Kuznetsov duo (AVA Rec) - 95
12. "Life At City Garden" by MCO (U-Sound) - 95
13. “Chinese Project” by Vladimir Tarasov (Sonore Rec) - 95

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Conferences lectures:

1. "Is New Jazz Really New?/Zen and New Jazz", Symposium on new jazz music, Novosibirsk - 88
2. "A Guided Tour to the Jazz and Rock Culture in Russia", Conference on humanistic and transpersonal psychology, Moscow-92

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Lectures:

1. "Jazz and Rock Music in the USSR" - 84-90
2. "Theory and History of Music" (weekly class) - 84-87
3. “ Musical Proces in the Music of XX century” ( class) - 94-95
4. "Improvised Music in the USSR" - Hamburg, Germany - 91
5. "Postmodern Music in Postsoviet Union" - Hamburg, Wuppertal, Cologne-Germany, Oxford-England - 92
6. "New Music from New Russia"- Kassel, Germany - 93
7. "Very Old and Very New Russian Music" - Stockholm,Sweden - 94
8. "Improvised Music From Improvised Country" - Hamburg, Germany - 96

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Festival organization:

1. "Days of New Jazz" - Moscow - 87
2. "Concerts of New Music" at Moscow Art Fair - 88
3. "Unidentified Movement" - Volgograd - 87-92
4. "Art Vigils" - Smolensk - 91-92
5. "Soundcheck" - Moscow - 92
6. "Watermusic" - Moscow - 92
7. "On the Way to Siberia" - Moscow - 93
8. "New Territory" - Kiev - 93
9. "Kukart" - Petersburg - 93-95
10. "Forwards to the Past" - Moscow - 93
11. "Old and New" - Kyzyl - 93
12. "New Territory of Art" - Krasnoyarsk - 93
13. "Faces" - Hamburg - 93
14. "Visit from Moscow" - Berlin - 93
15. "Voices and Noises" - Moscow - 94
16. "Drum Dream" - Ekaterinburg - 94
17. "Faces of Russia" - Hamburg - 94
18. "Jazz Guitar Festival" - Novosibirsk - 94
19. "Way to Solovki" - Moscow - 94
20. "New Jazz Fest" - Vologda-Cherepovetz - 94-95
21. "Days of New Jazz" - Arkhangelsk - 94-95
22. "Anthology" - Moscow-95
23. "Alternativa" - Moscow-95-96
24. "Art-Reality"- Petersburg-95
25. "Vocal Jazz Festival" - Novosibirsk-95
26. "New Music Afternoon" - Moscow-95
27. "Archaists and Innovators" - Moscow-95
28. "Silent Movie Live Music" - Ekaterinburg-96
29. "Razumnoe, Dobroe, Vechnoe" - Chelyabinsk-96
30. "Sprouts & Roots - 1" - Vologda-96
31. "Unsung Music" - London-96
32. "Diptych" - Moscow-96
33. "Sprouts & Roots" - Moscow-96
34. "Sprouts & Roots - 2" - Vologda-96
35. "New Jazz Fest" - Arkhangelsk-96
36. "Moscow-Petersburg: Noise Scene" - Moscow-96
37. "Sergey Passion" - Moscow-Petersburg-96
38. "Le cru et le cuit" - Moscow-96-97
39. "Silent Movie Talking Music" - Moscow-97

He produced more than 200 concerts.

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Tours:

1. Russian-German New Jazz Project "GERU 1"
   P.Kowald-D.Rauschtenberger (Wuppertal, Germany)
   A.Solovyov-A.Kostikov (Moscow, Russia)
   Moscow-Petersburg January-February 92
2. Russian-German New Music Project "GERU 2"
   H.-E.Gödecke-H.Schüttler (Hamburg, Germany)
   A.Solovyov (Moscow), V.Makarov (Smolensk), I.Zakharov (Ekaterinburg)
   Moscow-Petersburg-Ekaterinburg-Smolensk February 92
3. International New Music Project "Global Village"
   P.Kowald (Wuppertal, Germany), Saynkho (Tuva), G.Graf (Vienna, Austria), C.Brunel (Paris, France), I.Zakharov (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
   Moscow-Ekaterinburg-Tomck-Khabarovsk April 92
4. Russian-English New Jazz Project "Workshop"
   V.Miller-P.Moss (London, GB), V.Gayvoronsky-V.Volkov (Petersburg), A.Solovyov-A.Kostikov-S.Letov-A.Babiy (Moscow), Y.Kuznetsov (Odessa), V.Makarov-M.Yudenitch (Smolensk)
   Moscow-Petersburg-Odessa-Smolensk-Novgorod July-August 92
5. Tuvian-American New Music Project "Two Voices"
   Saynkho (Tuva) and Ned Rothenberg (New-York, US)
   Moscow-Petersburg-Arkhangelsk-Tallinn-Vilnius October 92
6. Russian-Swedish New Music Project
   "New Improvising Testament"
   D.Feiler (Stokcholm, Sweden), A.Nesterov (Kiev), Y.Kuznetsov (Odessa), V.Makarov-M.Yudenitch (Smolensk),S.Letov-A.Solovyov-M.Zhukov (Moscow), V.Gayvoronsky-V.Volkov (Petersburg), V.Tarasov-V.Chekasin-Y.Milashius (Vilnius), V.Miller (London)
   Kiev-Odessa-Smolensk-Moscow-Petersburg-Vilnius February 93
7. International New Jazz And Rock Project
   "United States of Drums"
   J.Meneses (US), G.Graf (Austria), Saynkho (Tuva), Y.Milashius-P.Ubartas-V.Labutis-S.Sasnauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania),V.Volkov (Petersburg), S.Letov (Moscow), V.Makarov-M.Yudenitch (Smolensk), E.Sivkov (Vologda), A.Nesterov (Kiev), Y.Yaremchuk (Lvov)
   Kiev-Vilnius-Petersburg March 93
8. Russian-English New Jazz Project "Workshop-2"
   V.Miller-P.Moss (London, GB), M.Zhukov-A.Solovyov-S.Letov-Y.Parfyonov-A.Alexandrov (Moscow), V.Makarov-M.Yudenitch (Smolensk), E.Sivkov (Vologda)
   Moscow-Smolensk-Nizhny Novgorod-Vologda May 93
9. Russian-German New Music Project "Around White House"
   H.-E.Gödecke-H.Schüttler (Hamburg, Germany), M.Zhukov-A.Solovyov-S.Letov-Y.Parfyonov-A.Alexandrov (Moscow), V.Makarov-M.Yudenitch (Smolensk), E.Sivkov (Vologda), V.Gayvoronsky-V.Volkov (Petersburg), V.Miller (London), V.Milayan-M.Mongush-G.Tchamsyryn (Kyzyl, Tuva), L.Gutovsky (Chelyabinsk), I.Zakharov (Ekaterinburg), M.Zabezhinsky (N.Novgorod)
   Moscow-Kyzyl-Krasnoyarsk-Novosibirsk-Tomsk-Chelyabinsk-Ekaterinburg-Vologda-Nizhny Novgorod September-October 93
10. International New Jazz Project "Two Saxes"
    W.Lüdi (Malanz, Switzerland), D.Feiler (Stockholm, Sweden), P.Minton-V.Miller (London, GB), I.Zakharov (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
    Moscow-Ekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk-Moscow January-February 94
11. International New Jazz Project "Workshop-3"
    K.Hyder-V.Miller (London, GB), V.Milayan- M.Mongush-G.Tchamsyryn (Kyzyl, Tuva)
    Moscow-Krasnoyarsk-Kyzyl-Irkutsk February 94
12. International New Music Project "Blowing"
    H.-E.Gödecke (Hamburg, Germany), V.Chekasin-V.Tarasov (Vilnius, Lithuania), V.Volkov (Petersburg, Russia)
    Moscow-Ekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk-Kaunas April-May 94
13. "Moscow Composers Orchestra" European Tour
    Moscow-Vilnius-Cologne-Hamburg-Kassel-Berlin June 94
14. International New Music Project "Way Home"
    A.Kolkowsky - V.Miller (London, GB), M.Zhukov (Moscow, Russia), V.Makarov (Smolensk, Russia), A.Nesterov (Kiev, Ukraine), V.Pilibavicus (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    Moscow-Smolensk-Minsk-Vilnius November 94
15. Austrian "Neighbours" in Russia
    Moscow-Protvino-Tsarskoe Selo-Petersburg March-April 95
16. "Moscow Composers Orchestra" European Tour
    St.Petersburg-Bolzano-Noci-Volta Mantovana-Zurich June-July 95
17. Russian-Norvegian-American Project
    "Varagians Back In Russia"
    M.Alperin, T.Gewelt, T.Brunborg, C.Iversen, F.Jakobsen (Oslo, Norway), Rob Waring (USA), A.Shilkloper (Moscow, Russia)
    Moscow-Petersburg-Pushino-Protvino September 95
18. "Home Sweat Home"
    V.Miller (London, GB), AMA-Jazz (Ekaterinburg, Russia), New Art Ensemble (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
    Moscow-Ekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk September 95
19. British "Voices" in Russia
    P.Minton, M.Nicols (London, GB)
    Novosibirsk-Moscow-Vologda-Arkhangelsk September-October 95
20. New Music Duo NMD
    H.-E.Gödecke (Hamburg, Germany), R.Hammerschmidt (Bremen, Germany)
    Moscow-Vologda-Arkhangelsk-Ekaterinburg September-October 95
21. "Poly-Breath Percussion Tour"
    "Poly-Breath Percussion Band" (Tokyo, Japan)
    Vilnius-Petersburg- Moscow November 95
22. New Music Solo "2 Voices 2"
    Ned Rothenberg (New-York, US
    Vilnius-Petersburg-Moscow-Ekaterinburg November 95
23. New Music Trio "New Russian Trio"
    Arkady Shilkloper-Sergey Starostin (Moscow), Vladimir Volkov (Petersburg)
    Moscow-Izhevsk-Ekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk December 95
24. New Music Duo "Divers"; LaDonna Smith (Florida, US), Sergey Letov (Moscow, Russia) Novosibirsk-Moscow - December 95
25. "Buto" Tour Min Tanaka (Tokyo, Japan), Slava Guyvoronsky (Petersburg, Russia) Moscow-Tsarskoe Selo-Petersburg - May 96
26. New Music Duo "Duo" Urs Leimgruber (Paris, France), Fritz Hauser (Basel, Switzerland), Vladimir Chekasin (Vilnius, Lithuania); Ekaterinburg-Moscow - June 96
27. "Music&Dance" Tour Slava Ganelin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Anastasia Lyra (Athens, Greece), Vladimir Chekasin (Vilnius, Lithuania), Slava Guyvoronsky - Vladimir Volkov (Petersburg, Russia) Vilnius-Moscow-Petersburg - September 96
28. "Music&Dance 2" Tour Kazutoki Umezu - Motoki Koji (Tokyo, Japan) Moscow-Vologda-Arkhangelsk - October 96
29. New Music Trio "New Music Trio" Vladimir Tarasov (Vilnius, Lithuania), Jason Hwang (New York, US), Peter Veale (Bonn, Germany); Moscow-Vologda-Arkhangelsk-Vilnius - October 96
30. New Music Duo "Cercle" Dieter Glawschnig (Hamburg, Germany), Andreas Schreiber (Vienna, Austria), Vladimir Tarasov - Vladimir Chekasin (Vilnius, Lithuania) Vologda-Arkhangelsk-Moscow-Vilnius - October 96
31. "Music & Dance 3" Tour Heinz-Erich Godecke (Hamburg, Germany), Reinhard Hammerschmidt (Bremen, Germany), Stephan Kersting (Hamburg, Germany), Vladimir Tarasov (Vilnius, Lithuania), Slava Guyvoronsky (Petersburg, Russia), Oleg Sulimenko (Moscow, Russia), Cornelia Georgus (Hamburg, Germany); Vologda-Arkhangelsk-Moscow - October 96
32. Memorial Tour "Without Kuriokhin" Keshavan Maslak (Florida, US), Otomo Yoshihide (Tokyo, Japan) Moscow-Petersburg - November 96

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