About Mikhail Alperin
Lived 1956 – 2018 (aged 61). Mikhail Alperin was a Russian and Norwegian composer, pianist, jazz musician, professor, film score composer and bandleader.
Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Юхи́мович Альпе́рін; 7 November 1956 – 11 May 2018), usually credited as Misha Alperin, was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.
Biography Alperin was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR to a Jewish family. He was educated in Khmelnytskyi, Bălți and Chișinău. In 1980, he formed one of the first jazz ensembles in Moldavian SSR. He moved to Moscow in the 1980s and founded the Moscow Art Trio with Arkady Shilkloper and folk singer Sergey Nikolaevich Starostin. Alperin died on 11 May 2018 at the age of 61.
Discography An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.
2008 — Moscow Art Trio & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra «Village Variations» (JARO 4290-2) Germany
2009 — Moscow Art Trio «Live in Holland» (CDDOMA 091102) Russia; (JARO 4302-2) Germany
2010 — The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu & Moscow Art Trio «Legend» (JARO 4300-2) Germany
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Who was Mikhail Alperin?
Ukrainian musician (1956-2018)
When was Mikhail Alperin born?
Mikhail Alperin was born on 7 November 1956 in Kamianets-Podilskyi.
When did Mikhail Alperin die?
Mikhail Alperin died on 11 May 2018 in Oslo.
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Mikhail Alperin was a composer, pianist, jazz musician, professor, film score composer and bandleader.
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Mikhail Alperin was Russian and Norwegian.
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