Pyotr Vostokov’s Great Jazz Orchestra: “An Evening of Jazz”

On June 7, Pyotr Vostokov’s Great Jazz Orchestra performed at the Moscow Conservatory, presenting legendary jazz standards alongside original interpretations of classical works.

Pyotr Vostokov is one of the most talented musicians of the younger generation to have rapidly risen to prominence on the music scene. A participant in numerous jazz festivals in Russia and abroad—including those held in Düsseldorf, Istanbul, Baku, Tbilisi, and other cities—he graduated from the Gnesin Secondary Special Music School in 2003 and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in 2009. He quickly established himself as one of the leading figures among the younger generation of jazz musicians. Pyotr is already a featured soloist with three of Moscow’s most important big bands and is also highly active on the city’s jazz club scene.

In recent years, Vostokov has performed with many of Moscow’s most renowned jazz ensembles, including Anatoly Kroll’s Akademik-Band, Viktor Livshits’ JVL Big Band, Igor Butman’s Big Band, the Oleg Lundstrem State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music, Alexey Kozlov’s Arsenal, as well as ensembles led by Viktor Yeponeshnikov, Ivan Farmakovsky, Vagif Sadykhov, Yakov Okun, Boris Frumkin, and many others. As a member of these ensembles, he has taken part in festivals and concerts throughout Russia and has also performed internationally in the United States, Germany, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, Greece, India, Turkey, Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus.

Today, Vostokov leads his own Great Jazz Orchestra and is also a Senior Lecturer in the Pop and Jazz Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where he teaches trumpet and ensemble performance.