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Marimba Plus Is The First And The Unique Music Group In Russia For That Marimba Is The Leading Instrument And The Creativity Basis. Marimba Plus Is An Instrumental Group That Combines Jazz Ethnic And Contemporary Music Into A Stylized Musical Cocktail Able To Satisfy The Taste Of Any Music Connoisseur. The Musicians Reinterpret Classical Academic Traditions And Ethnic Rhythms And Tones With Jazz Improvisation And Modern Tendencies And Technologies. They Call This Style – Art-Fusion. Lev Slepner – Marimba Malletkat Percussion Drums Composer Evgeniy Lebedev - Piano Composer Tatiana Shishkova - Vokal Percussion Sergey Nankin – Clarinet Bassethorn Vocal Percussion Timur Nekrasov – Tenor Soprano Baritone Saxes Percussion Eugeny Yaryn– Bass Alexander Kulkov – Drums Marimba Is An Instrument Which Originated In Africa. It’s A Wooden Relative To Xylophone Incorporating In Its Sound The Ethnic Shades And Extraordinary Timbre Power Which Is Capable To Touch Any Listener. Marimba Plus Was Created In 1999 By The Young Professional Musicians Who Have Graduated From The Russian Gnesin Music Academy And Moscow State Conservatory Currently Our Pianist Evgeny Lebedev Studies At Berkley College Of Music And Have Won Prizes At Foreign Competitions And Festivals. After That The Group Started To Be More And More Popular And Appeared Very Often At Prestigious Moscow Clubs And Concert-Halls. The Marimba Plus Program Is Based On The Composer Works By The Group Leader – Marimbist Lev Slepner Whose Composing Talent Was Marked By A Russian National Reward “Triumph” In 2002. The Main Concept Of His Work Is In Fusion Of Various Music Genres. Marimba Plus Also Performs The Works By Contemporary Russian V.Gorsky F. Lakhuti A.Shilkloper As Well As Foreign R.Galliano L. Schifrin H.Silver G.Benson H. Hancock S. Wonder Etc. Composers In Original Arrangements Written By Slepner For The Special Set Of Instruments. Lev Slepner Is The Unique Composer In Russia Who Writes Especially For Marimba And This Instruments Set. The Obvious Images Are Especially Involves In This Music - Often There Is A Sensation That Musicians Simply Tell And Draw Music. East Philosophy And African Holiday French Elegance And Russian Dances Celestial Elephant And Movie Adventures Cosmic Travel And Nibelungen Epic Nature People Feelings And Dozens Of Other Images Come Together At This Ethno-Jazz Mystery. In 2007 Lev Slepner Became The Official Endorser The Marimba Mallets Of Encore Mallets USA In Russia.
In 2007 The Malletkat Midi-Marimba Became The New Instrument In The Band And The Using Of Electronic Opens The Whole New World Of Sound Possibility For The Composer And Marimbist – Now He Can Use Any Sound From Ethnic Classical To Extra Cosmic Electronic Use One-Line Loops And More Wide Range Of Music Expressiveness. “Uniqueness Of Marimba Plus Is That Possessing The Refined Features Of Academic Music They Have Comprehended Also Jazz Secrets And Added Modern Tendencies Surprisingly Organically Having Made Related These Not Always Related Qualities. So They Reached Trust And Recognition At Each Of Adherents Of These Musical Directions Having United Them In One Indivisible Audience With Identical Delight Perceiving Them ” - Told Anatoliy Krall Famous Russian Musician Pianist Composer Conductor Academic Professor Of Russian Music Academy. The Combination Of Energy And Professionalism Of Jazz Playfulness And Academic Conservatism Of Drive And Meditation Of Virtuosity And Thoughtfulness Makes The Career Of The Marimba Plus Successful. The Group Maintains A Broad Range Of Concert Activity Takes Part In Numerous Festivals In Russia And Abroad And Gives Performs In Different Halls And Stages Including Best Moscow Concert Halls Tchaikovsky Concert Hall And Moscow International Performance Arts Center And Open-Airs For Thousands People. Marimba Plus Has Different Programs For Different Halls Places And Situations Club Performances Philharmonic Concerts Art Events Chamber Music Festivals Open-Airs. The New Project Consists Of The Trio Of Live Instruments Midi-Marimba Clarinet Vocal As Well As Computer Sounds And Back-Tracks The Project Style Is Close To Lounge House Smooth-Jazz. The Group Cooperates With Leading Russian Jazz Musicians - Daniel Kramer Arkady Shilkloper Oleg Butman Felix Lakhuti Alexey Podymkin Oleg Osenkov Eteri Beriashvili And Other. In 2003 Together With The French Violinist Didie Lockwood The Musicians Went On Tour Through Russian Cities Perm Tumen Samara Nijni Novgorod And Others . The Tour Was Organized By Daniil Kramer - A Famous Russian Pianist. The Band Made A Lot Of Tours All Over The Russia And Abroad France Czechia Germany St.-Petersburg Ekaterinburg Chelyabinsk Rybinsk Vladimir Bryansk Saratov Vladivostok And Other PRIZES In 2000 The Marimba Plus Became The Laureate Of The Moscow Competition “Rockpower 2000” Having Won The Second Prize. In 2003 The Leader Of The Group Leo Slepner Became The “Triumph” National Prize Winner As The Best Composer And Jazz Performer Youth . FESTIVALS
Marimba Plus Take Part At Many Festivals In Russia And Abroad The Largest Russian Jazz Festival “Usadba Jazz” In Archangelskoe Mansion Which Gathers Hundred Of Thousands People The Prestigious Moscow Festivals “All The Stars Of Jazz” Curated By Anatoliy Krall “Jazz In The Hermitage Garden” “Home Of Jazz” In Moscow Composers House.
Marimba Plus Participated At The Second International Jazz Festival In Petropavlovskoe-2004 St.-Petersburg Where It Performed With The Jazz Stars - The Vibraphonist Mike Manieri And The Vocalist Miles Griffith. Another Important Event For The Group Was Their Participation In The Jazz Festival Of Montabane France Together With Such Stars As Monti Alezander And Patricia Kaas.
In 2007 The Group Was Invited At The International Moscow Festivals As Russian Participants To Perform In One Program With International Stars At “CityJazz” With Avishai Cohen Trio Izrael And At “Transformation” With Al Di Meola USA . Marimba Plus Presented Russian Modern Music At “Russian Seasons-2008” Inteco Gala Night In Munich Germany . Also The Group Participated In International Ethno Festival In Prague Czechia .
The Band Also Performed At “Tea Festival” At Red Square Folk-Marathon In Petrozavodsk Traditional Spring Jazz Festival “Bohemia-Jazz” Internatiоnal Jazz Festivals In Vladivostok And Bryansk Number Of The Jazz Festivals In Suzdal Obninsk Tomsk Surgut Etc. ALBUMS The Group Has 5 Albums For The Present It`s Presentations Took Place In The Best Moscow Concert Halls – The Concert Hall By Name Of Tchaikovsky And The International Moscow Art Center 1.Marimba Plus 2001 2.Charmed World 2004 Recorded Together With A. Shilkloper 3.Zebrano 2005 4.Celestial Elephant 2007 5.Cinemania Presented At October 2008 6.Flight Over The World 2012 MUSIC FOR FILMS Lev Slepner Created And Marimba Plus Performed Music For Following Movies • "White Master" "Quadro" Media-Group Documentary Film In 4 Series Animated Films • "Eskimo" 2004 • "A Beetle A Boat An Apricot" 2004 • “Mother And Music” Won Prize At Animation Festival At Suzdal-2007 For The Best Sound • “Camilla” Presented At 2009 Grand-Prise Of "Moscow Debutes" Festival . PROJECTS The New Marimba Plus And Lev Slepner Project Calls “Seasons” - Huge Music Show That Combines Marimba Plus And Other Jazz And Improvisation Groups Symphonic Orchestra Academic Chorus Ethno Groups And The Famous Russian I. Butman D.Matsuev And Other And Foreign Soloist From Every Genres In One Musical Composition Created By Lev Slepner. Marimba Plus Works A Lot At Different Music Projects It Performs At Video-Art Projects Cooperate With Symphonic Orchestra Participate At Art Shows And Exhibitions Cultural Events Opening Presentations Play With Other Musicians From Classical To Modern DJs. Lev Slepner Teaches Students In His Course Of Percussion To Play Drums Marimba And Percussion. Also He Makes Open Workshops And Classes. Marimba Plus Has Often Appeared On Leading Russian TV-Channels As Well As On Radio As One Of The Most Interesting Music Bands. The Music Activity Of The Marimba Plus Is Often Highlighted In Press.
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