VLADISLAV MAKAROV

ARTIST & MUSICIAN

born in 1950, lives and works in Smolensk, Russia.
Vladislav Makarov is an abstract expressionist, his method of painting is tachism and dripping. The distinguishing features of his works are musicality, spontaneous energy and emotional pressure.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 1985-87 Leningrad/The Association Of Experimental Art

• 1986-88 Budapest/ART of TODAY International exhibitions

• since 1987 exhibitions and actions of New Russian jazz and improv artists: Moscow, Volgograd,Smolensk, Sverdlovsk, Kiev, Riga.

• 1991 Paris-auction

• 2000-04 StPetersburg Pushkinskaya 10 < Free Culture >

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS, THE PERFORMANCES

• 1989 Moscow. The Museum Of Musical Culture

• 1990 Moscow. The Theatre "School of Dramatic Art" of Anatoly Vassiliev

• 1991 Hagen. Germany. Sudwestfalischen Industrie und Handelskammer

• 1991 Bochum. Germany. Vorraum Galerie.

• 1992 Smolensk. Russia. City Art Gallery

• 1994 Dresden. Germany. The International Workshop ALL&TAG.

• 1995 Hagen. Germany. Werkhof Galerie

• 1995 Muenster. Germany. Kunsthaus.

• 1995 St. Petersburg. The ART-Reality'95. Manege.

• 1996 Smolensk. The Central Exhibition Hall

• 1996 London. The Queen Elizabeth Hall. London Gallery

• 1998 StPersburg. S. Kuryokhin International Festival. Homage to Kuryokhin

• 1999 Moscow. Cultural Heroes 21 Multyproject

• 1999 Berlin Pushkin Festival. Makarov Theatre- Little Deconstruction of...

• 2000 St. Petersburg. Pushkinskaya 10 Galery 103. Music-Not-In-Itself

• 2001 Moscow. Zverev Cultural Centre. Music-Not-In-Itself

• 2003 Berlin. Mudd-Club. New Russian Project

Vladislav Makarov as a musician follows the aesthetic creed of free improvised music. Recently he has developed his own structural method of improvisation.
Since 1979 he is performing as solo cellist-improviser and with various musicians. He has been participant of many festivals, actions, concerts of jazz, contemporary and avant-garde music: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Ekaterinburg, Smolensk, Vologda, Arkhangelsk;
Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Parnu, Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Lvov;
Berlin, Cologne, Muenster, Dresden, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hagen.
Makarov was and still is cooperating with Russian musicians:
Sergey Kuryokhin, Sergey Letov, Valentina Ponomareva, Sainho, V. Dudkin, M. Yudenich, N. Pshenichnikova, I. Zakharov, A. Nesterov, V. Gayvoronsky, E. Sivkov, A. Aigi a. o.
and also:
John Fisher, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Greg Goodman, Jim Menesis, LaDonna Smith (USA),
Elton Dean, Chris Cutler, Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, V.¥Miller, Alex Kolkovsky (England),
Erhard Hirt, Martin Teurer, Heinz-Erich Goedecke, Alfred Harth, Hans Schuttler, Martin Verborg (Germany),
Ive Robert, Didier Petit, Misha Lobko (France)
Jacques Siron, Markus Eichenberger, Fahrt Art Trio, Duo Fatale (Switzerland),
Dror Feiler and "Lokomotiv-Konkret" (Sweden),
Ryoji Hojito (Japan).

• 1991-92 Music organizer of Smolensk Humanitarian Foundation Festivals and various actions

• 1992 Participant of international project "MITROPA EUROPIUM" (Berlin, Podewil with M. Bangerter, M. Nichols, V. Kuchan, T. Stanko a. o.)

• 1994 German tour with Moscow Composers Orchestra (Cologne-Hamburg-Kassel-Berlin)

• 1995 German tour - The Makarov Quartet (Hagen-Dortmund-Muenster)

• 1996 London. The Queen Elizabeth Hall "Unsung Music Festival"

• 1998 StPetersburg SKIF 3- Trio V.Makarov-Dror Feiler-M.Yudenich

• 1999 Berlin. Pushkin festival

• 2000 StPetersburg SKIF 4 Duo Shelley Hirsch - V.Makarov

• 2001 StPetersburg SKIF 5 Makarov-Quintet

• 2003 StPetersburg SKIF 7 Dark Side of the Sound project

• 2003 Moscow tour. Xtra-project with Markus Godwin, Dmitry Khahovsky

• 2003 Berlin. Mudd-club. New Russian Project with Paul Schwingenschloegl,
  Eugeny Makarov,Valia Chesnes

• 2004 Moscow FSK < 15 Years After> with Henry Kaiser, John Oswald
  StPetersburg SKIF 8 < XTRA-trio> with D.Khahovsky& Eugeny Makarov

• 2004 Berlin Tour MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT feat. JazzKeller Club

               Vlad Makarov-Gilles Aubry-Evgeny Makarov

• 2004 StPetesburg. Art Center "Pushkinskaya 10"- Festival of Independent Art

  Defragment-Band Makarov-Khahovsky-Davydov-Yudenich

  Nevember Band Rubanov-Yaremchuk-Khahovsky-Makarov & friends

• 2005 St. Petesburg SKIF-9 & Moscow FSK
  MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT
  Vlad Makarov - Gilles Aubry - Evgeny Makarov
  special guest Alexey Borisov
• 2006 St Petersbourg SKIF-10
  Fred Frith - Chris Cutler - Vlad Makarov ( as special guest )
  project MAKAROV - SARRAZY - MAKAROV
  
• 2006 St Petersbourg, Cultural centre Pushkinskaja-10
  MAKARof BAILEY BAND
• 2007 Moscow, Cultural Center DOM. Raw and Cooked: Roman Stolar - Vlad Makarov - Sergey Letov - Mikhail Davydov
• 2007 Smolensk Art media project IN_4MATION
• 2007 Ekaterinburg JAZZ TRANSIT: Vlad Makarov - Sergey Pron - Igor Parashchuk - Vitaly Vladimirov
• 2007 Kiev ALEXANDER NESTEROV memorial
• 2007 Val Poschiavo, Switzerland UNCOOL-2007

DISCOGRAPHY

1. Document. New music from Russia. The 80-s. Leo records CD LR 80

2. Valentina Ponomareva. Iskushenie. Melodia C60-28293 (LP)

3. Kings & cabbages. Moscow Composers Orchestra. Leo records Laboratory Leo Lab CD 005 (CD)

4. Moscow Composers Orchestra. Life at City Garden. U-Sound UD 95027 (CD)

5. Outbursts. Quartet Miller-Makarov-Yudenich-Letov/Sivkov. Ascension Music (MC)

6. Hagen Studio Trio. Makarov-Hirt-Verborg. Ton-Studio (MC)

7. Space-Mythology-Silence. Makarov-Yudenich Duo. Europe+ Studio (MC)

8. Golden Years of Soviet New Jazz. Volume III Leo records GY 412

9. Hot Summer in Berlin. V.Makarov - P. Schwingenschloegl - E. Makarov. Extra Records 001 (CD-R)

10. Live in Mudd Club. V.Makarov - P. Schwingenschloegl - E. Makarov. Extra Records 002 (CD-R)

11. Music out of Time. Makarov - Gayvoronsky - Rubanov. Mar Art 009 (CD-R)

12. Music not in itself. Makarov - Aigui - Sivkov - Boys Band Trio. Mar Art 010 (CD-R)

13. Pushkin Vigil. Makarov - Rubanov - Runovskaya - Davydov. Mar Art 005 (CD-R)

14. Invitation to. Makarov - Sherly Hirsch - Erhard Hirt - Greg Goodman - Hernry Kaiser - LaDonna Smith - Phil Minton. Mar Art 008 (CD-R)

15. Caprices for cello and voice. Makarov - Davydov - Ishchenko - Dostaj Mar Art 003 (CD-R)

16. The End of a Belle Epoch. Makarov - Vladimir Miller - Sivkov - Yudenich. Mar Art 002 (CD-R)

17. Vladimir Miller and Quartets. Long Arms CDLA 03052

MAK – A R T RECORDS

1.  Space – Mythology – Silence V.Makarov – M.Yudenich 1996
2. The End of a Belle Epoch V.Makarov-V.Miller-E.Sivkov-M.Yudenich
3. Caprices for Cello and Voic V.Makarov-L. Ishenko-M.Davydov-O.Dostay 1997
4. The Hand V. Makarov – S. Letov 1984-88
5. Pushkin Vigil - live at Pushkinskaja 10. Makarov-Rubanov-P.Runovskaja-M.Davydov
6. The Death of Andropov V.Makarov – S.Letov – M. Yudenich 1984
7. A.Kondrashkin A.Kondradhkin – S.Letov – V.Makarov 1983-88
8. Invitation to… Shelley Hirsch, Erhard Hirt, Greg Goodman,Henry
   Makarov & Friends Kaiser, LaDonna Smith, Phil Minton,Vlad Makarov
9. Music Out of Time V.Makarov-V.Gayvoronsky-N.Rubanov 2000
10. Music-Not-In-Itself DOM projects V.Makarov-A.Aigi-E.Sivkov-Boys Band Trio 2001
11. Middle Russian Exotic Project V.Makarov-N.Rubanov-M.Davydov-M.Yudenich
12. Makarov on Leo-records compilatoin CD Mak-Art
13. Defraghment MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT V.Makarov-Gilles Aubry-E.Makarov 2004
14. Makarov Anthology compilation CD Mak-Art 014 2004
15. Live in JazzKeller XTRAtrio V.Makarov-P.Schwingenschloegl-E.Makarov

Pentagramma

1. Vlad Makarov - Serguei Letov. The Hand. Introduction to deconstruction of. 021 CD
   (S. Letov - alto, bass clarinet, soprano saxophones; V. Makarov -cello)

2. The Death of Andropov/Antonius' Birthday Party (S. Letov - soprano, alto, baritone saxophone, V. Makarov -cello, M. Yudenich - percussion). Recorded in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR 022 CD

3. Alexandr Kondrashkin. Recordings 1983-1984 with S. Letov and V. Makarov 023 CD

4. Psycho. Vlad Makarov + Sergey Letov. Recorded in Smolensk, October 2002 035 CD

5. Alexandr Axionov, Sergey Letov, Vlad Makarov, Alexandr Kondrashkin in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR. January 1984 038 CD

Gallery of Painting and Graphics by Vladislav Makarov

Articles

ATONAL SYNDROME OF NEW RUSSIAN JAZZ: BARBAN-KURYOKHIN-KONDRASHKIN-LETOV-MARKHEL AND ROCK IN OPPOSITION OF SUDNIK-NIKITIN: RIGA-LENINGRAD-MOSCOW.
ALL VIA SMOLENSK

IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM

Marc Sarrazy "MAKAROV" Improjazz #101 january 2004  /in French/

CONTACT:
Telephone: 0812/665834
Address: Bagrationa 12/13-59
Smolensk 214025
RUSSIA

e-mail: vladmak@inbox.ru