TRI-O
Sergey Letov - leader; soprano and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet, alto flute, flute, swanee whistle
Alexandr Alexandrov - bassoon
Yury Parfenov (1946-2025) - trumpet, althorn, pocket trumpet
Arcady P. Freeman/Kirichenko - tuba, bass trumpet, vocal (Russia/USA)
Arkady Shilkloper - French horn, jagd-horn, Alphorn
TRI"O" was founded
in Moscow in 1985 by Sergey Letov, Arcady Kirichenko (tuba)
and Arcady Shilkloper (French
horn). The first performance took place at art exhibition of
the avant-garde group "21". Alexandr
Alexandrov has come in 1989 and Yury Parfionov
- in 1992. Originally ensemble has won a recognition among the
underground artists - playing at art exhibitions, literary evenings,
happenings,
modern art festivals, etc.
Since 1986 TRI-O participates
in jazz festivals all over ex-USSR, in Poland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, Germany,
Italy. TRI"O" made
a lot of tours on jazz clubs of Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Holland, Finland, USA, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, playing
at such clubs
as "Knitting
Factory",
"Anyway" (New
York), "Bimhuis"(Amsterdam), "Blue Tomato"(Vienna)
and Sud des Alpes"(Geneva).
Together with Serguei Kuryokhin and his POP MECHANICS they played
at Russia, Italy, Denmark. Together with
the
Danish guitar player Pierre Dørge and his band NEW EAST-WEST JUNGLE
ORCHESTRA they played in Russia, Denmark and Germany. The musicians
of TRI"O" realize themselves in different forms of
art activities, among them are theater festivals - in Oslo, Yaroslavl,
Odessa, - poetry festivals - in Milan and Kostroma, festivals
of
the avant-garde art in Volgograd and Moscow, festival of Russian Culture in Nice (France), - and also in collaboration with
the theaters of Anatoly Vassiliev, Mikhail Mokeev, cinema and
TV.
TRI-O: Sergey Letov, Yury Parfenov, Arkady FreeMan (Kirichenko)
Of course, one needn't be an Afro or American derivative to employ the structure, strategies, and freedoms of jazz. [...] particularly provocative small unit - Trio.., led by soprano sax/flute/bass clarinet Sergei Letov.... delved deeply into themselves for motives and vocabularies. They emerge with music based on personal and social experiences, generated by the same faith in spontaneous, self-aware utterance and life's vital pulse that gave rise to the earliest and sustains the newest jazz."
Howard Mandel DOWN BEAT, Sept. 1988
TriO and Sainkho. Forgotten Streets of St. Petersburg. Leo.
-- Christian Carey
Review on the CD "Forgotten Streets of St. Petersburg.
Tri-O & Sainkho" Leo Records - in ALL ABOUT JAZZ by Francesca Odilia Bellino 
Discography
- THREE HOLES. Modern music ensemble 'Three"O"'. Melodia (USSR) C60-28461, 1989 LP
- LENINGRAD JAZZ INTERNATIONAL'89. Melodia C60-30587,1990 LP
- DOCUMENT. New Music from Russia. Leo Records (England) CD LR 805
- CONSPIRACY. Zurich 1989. Leo Records CD LR 810
- Trialogue. SoLyd Records (Russia) CD SLR 00031
- TRI-O and single D.A. Prigov HOR Records HCD 056a
-
TriO and Sainkho
Forgotten Streets of St. Petersburg
Leo Records CD LR 439
TRI-O: Arkady Shilkloper, Sergey Letov, Arkady Kirichenko (1988)
Pentagramma
-
Have been Lenin in Lvov? 001 CD
TRI-O (S. Letov, A. Alexandrov, Yu. Parfenov) + Yury Yaremchuk. Open air live concert in Lvov.
mp3 -
TRI-O. Three Holes of Woman. Live at Seattle.
CD 006
TRI-O (S. Letov, A. Kirichenko, A. Alexandrov) meets Billy Tipton's Memorial Saxophone Quartet in Seattle, July 1990 -
TRI-O Radioactivity. 008 CD.
TRI-O live concert (Letov, Alexandrov, Parfenov) at Architect House, Moscow November, 27 1999. Recorded by Radio Russia for European Radio Union. - TRI-O. Mickey Mouse - kaputt! 032 CD
- 44. TRI-O at SKIF, Petersburg 200 034 CD
NEXT CONCERTS
June 21, 2025 7 p.m. Pereslavl-Zalessky. Art-bar La Foret. TRI-O: Sergey Letov, Arkady Freeman Kirichenko, Arkady Shilkloper
October 28, 2025 7 p.m. ? Moscow. Rassvet. Vladimir Rezitsky Memorial: TRI-O (Arkady Shilkloper, Arkady Kirichenko-Freeman, Sergey Letov)
August 31, 2011 22.00 - 23.00 TRI-O at NOSTALGIA TV (Russia)
Apple Pie (1991), music by TRI-O (A. Shilkloper, A. Kirichenko, S.Letov), Dzhungli, Sergey Kuryokhin - Sergey Letov duo
TRI-O: Arkady Shilkloper, Arkady Kirichenko, Sergey Letov (1988)
