This trio will play a mixture of jazz standards from the Golden Songbook, and jazz-infused interpretations of Ukrainian folk songs.
Ganna Gryniva is a young Ukrainian jazz singer who is living, creating and playing music in Berlin. Born in Siberia, grown up in Ukraine and Germany, Ganna is searching for a way to express her multiculturalism through music. As a daughter of a classical pianist, she started studying piano at the age of 6. When she and her family moved to Germany in 2002, Ganna began to study classical singing. In the following years she participated in numerous choirs and bands, singing classical music, pop, rock, musical, jazz, traditional African music, reggae and ska.
Having gone through different musical genres, Ganna found out that Jazz is giving her most satisfying way of making music, speaking, and expressing herself. In her musical projects Ganna is always trying to use the jazz language as the main tool, mixing it with other musical genres.
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Yevge Pugachev is a jazz guitarist, composer from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He has worked with many famouse musicians in Ukraine such as Anna Chaikovska, Sergey Davidov. Yevgen also has his own project performing his original composotions. After winning a schoolarship from Polish Ministry of Culture he moved to Warsaw where he started to colloborate with different Polish, American and European musicians such as John Beasley, Novald Dahl, David Sundby, Dwight Tribble, Joel Holmes. Now Pugachov lives in Berlin, where he takes active partin the local underground jazz scene.
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Hugo Reyder is a French double bassist. He started music in 2002 at the Chambéry Conservatory. In 2007 he took Jerôme Regard’s class at the Conservatory of Lyon. He has played with Mario Stanchev (2007-09), Pierre Drevet (2008), Gaël Horellou, Pierre Lafrenaye, Zaza Desiderio, Mohammed Abozekry (2009-14) and projects like DOF Trio, Kartet K, Comma Trail, Leslie Quintet, Heejaz.
