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Katya Sourikova
Katya made her first recordings in North America with Ivan Bamford and Remi-Jean leBlanc. In 2005, the trio performed at the Baku International Jazz Festival alongside heavyweights such as Joe Zawinul and Greg Osby.
At the Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop in 2006, Katya’s mentors Dave Douglas and Marilyn Crispell helped her focus her creative energies. The resuling two albums Steps in the Snow and Angels & Satellites were recorded in New York and subsequently released by Weave Records.
Also sparked by the Banff workshops, Katya’s has often collaborated with Canadian Saxophonist Curtis Macdonald and Norwegian Trumpter Gunhild Seim. Macdonald is featured on both North American albums. In Europe, Seim has engaged in several projects with Katya to the present day.
In 2010 Katya completed a project in Berlin with Saxophonist Oliver Fox, Bassist Simon Bauer and drummer Brendan Dougherty. The resulting album Ivan’s Dream is out in August 2011.
Over the past 6 months, Katya has performed in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway and Latvia, as well as playing regularly in Berlin.
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Katya Sourikova: Ivan's Dream
by Eyal Hareuveni
The third release of Berlin-based pianist and composer Katya Sourikova looks and sounds like something fitting the ECM catalog--the beautiful cover, the pristine and rich sound of the recording, and, obviously, the genre-binding beautiful, lyrical and nuanced music that moves freely and organically along the spectrum of jazz, both American and European, as well as folk music and classical music, all without subscribing fully to any genre but embracing it all. Sourikova has collected ten self-penned compositions, ...
read moreKatya Sourikova: Angels & Satellites
by Eyal Hareuveni
Now splitting her time between London and Berlin, Katya Sourikova was born in Saint Petersburg and studied music in London and at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, the latter under the tutorship of Dave Douglas and Marilyn Crispell. Angels & Satellites--her sophomore release after Steps in the Snow (Weave, 2008), with American saxophonist Curtis MacDonald--features the pianist as a mature composer and player, who defies genre boundaries between jazz and modern music. The ...
read more"Sourikova is a pianist who deserves wider attention and who is clearly worth following. A great promise.." Stef Gijssels, Free Jazz, Netherlands
"An original thinker as a composer and pianist, constantly experimenting to maintain the audience's interest." Jazz Dünyasi, Baku International Jazz Festival