Drummer-percussionist, teacher, multi-instrumentalist, composer,
He began his musical education at an early age thanks to the support of his parents. His father played the keyboards, guitar, and sang in a folk choir.
Already as a student of a secondary school-gymnasium, in the percussion class of the Center for Children and Youth Creativity, he played in the Pryluky City House of Culture (Chernihiv region, Ukraine) with a brass band, which included teachers of the music school and outstanding artists of that time.
In 2002, having moved to Kyiv, he began to collaborate with such musical groups as Chornonobryvtsi, Grinjoli, Toporkestra, Asia Sool, as well as with solo performers, including Oleg Skrypka, Rosava, Sensei (former member of the P'yatnytsia group), Susana Jamaladinova - Jamala, Zlata Ognevich, Antin Mukharsky, the Green Grey group,
From 2002 to 2012 he participated in many festivals, such as "Slavic Bazaar", "Kazantyp", "Krayina Mriy", "Sheshory" and many others.
While playing the drum set, he became interested in percussion instruments and began to practice playing the djembe, darbuka, conga drum and cajon. In 2012, in Jamaica (Falmos and Ohorios), he had the opportunity to improve his skills and master the original rhythms of playing the djembe and drum set. He was lucky enough to learn to play the congas and create sound from Cuban masters in Miami (USA). In Haiti (Port Labadi), material on ancient tribal drum music was collected. St. Thomas is an island where he managed to master the styles of (reggae) calypso. In 2015, he lived in Central Asia, studied local folklore. He became interested in playing the rubab, dutar.
In 2017, after a short European tour with the Pushkin Kleizmer Band, he went to Israel, where he performed at festivals in the city of Safed and conducted master classes on rhythm for children, teachers and orchestra conductors.
In Kyiv, he taught percussion at the Nota Bene Academy, the Montessori School, the European Global School, and headed the Department of World Percussion at the Dranomanov Institute.
World Music
2010-2019 He was lucky enough to collaborate with such artists as Gregory Porter (Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal in 2014), New York jazz pianist Joel Holmes (twice Grammy nominee), one of the most famous clarinetists in the world David Krakauer and Canadian David West, pianist Sergey Manukyan, singer Sevara Nazarkhan, Ukrainian soloists -
Sergiy Chanturia, Volodymyr Solyanyk, Dennis Adu, the best Tatar performers - Inver Izmailov, Lenie Izmailova, Shevket Zmorka, Said Sagitov, Alie Khadzhabadinova, Israeli soloists - Sanya Kroitor, Eyal Shiloa, Yuri Brener, musicians from the USA - Daniel Wolf and Stuart King, Sonya Venturi from Italy, etc.
Having moved from the stage of the local cultural center to concert venues, constantly performing world music styles in collaboration with musicians from different cultures, he is convinced that his knowledge and experience should be shared with others. The development of his own system of teaching drumming and percussion was also influenced by his collaboration with dance schools of various styles, such as flamenco, belly dance, RnB, etc. The development of rhythm and improvisation formed the basis of his training. In Lithuania, he works with such groups as Klaipėda Jazz Orchestra, Rakia Klezmer Band, band GIN'GAS, Skafandryja, The Honkin' Dudes Brass Band, Virgilijus Jutas, Dmitrij Golovanov, Vytautas Pilibavičius, Loreta Sungailienė, Dalius Naujokaitis-Naujo, Sherman Tan (Malaysia), James Welmsley (England). With the support of Lithuanian Culture Taruba and Klaipeda Jazz Orchestra prepared a concert of the famous drummer Buddy Rich. In Klaipeda, he held a master class at the Music Academy. He worked at the Yamaha Music School in Vilnius. At the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Klaipeda, master classes in playing drums and percussion instruments were held. 2024 October 16 Klezmer group Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Paris (2024, Focus Lituanie) performed in Paris with Rakija Klezmer Band. In Vevis, he performed with a local jazz orchestra, with a solo program <music of the peoples of the world>. Now he collaborates and is friends with many famous Lithuanian musicians, conducts master classes, devotes time to teaching and self-improvement.
