3. Jazz Ex tempore:Workshop Double bass: From classical music to jazz Yuri Goloubev (Russia)

Yuri Golubev

Yuri GolubevBorn in Moscow, Russia, in 1972. Receiving his Master’s Degree in double bass as a soloist and chamber music performer from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1995 (where he has also studied classical composition).
In 2002 Yuri becomes the youngest bass player ever in the history of both USSR and Russia to be awarded the prestigious title of the Honored Artist of Russia by President.
From 1991 till 1992 Yuri performs with the famed Bolshoi Opera, and from 1992 till 2004 holds a position of the Principal Bass with one of the world’s most noted chamber orchestras with one of the world's most noted chamber orchestras - Moscow Soloists directed by Yuri Bashmet. In this way he collaborated with some of the top classical artists: Thomas Quasthoff, Lynn Harrell, James Galway, Gidon Kremer, Barbara Hendricks, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Maxim Vengerov.
Has also performed with such orchestras as l'Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala and l'Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini and wrote a number of jazz and chamber music works as well as bass transcriptions and arrangements. Some of these works are published in Russia, Germany and the United States. In addition, he has lead diverse master classes in the field of both classical and jazz music in the United States, England, Ireland and Italy.
After many years of a splendid career in classical field, Yuri moves to Milan and dedicates himself exclusively to what he considers his “true call”: jazz music.
In his "adopted home", Italy, he rapidly attracts attention of many important Italian musicians, and this brings him numerous collaborations with such artists asEnrico Pieranunzi, Rosario Giuliani, Franco Cerri, Glauco Venier, Claudio Fasoli, Giovanni Falzone, Guido Manusardi, Gianni Cazzola, Massimo Manzi, and many other musicians from overseas Adam Nussbaum, Miles Griffith, Gwilym Simcock, Asaf Sirkis, and others.