DMITRIJ GOLOVANOV
Genres: 21st Century Modern, Vocal Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz • Lithuania

The repertoire of young and versatile piano virtuoso Dmitry Golovanov (b. 1983), quickly making headway in jazz world, ranges from standards (with big bands) to modern creative (with Riot). A graduate of the Balys Dvarionas School of Music and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he studied with Artūras Anusauskas, Dmitry Golovanov is Richie Beirach's graduate student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig. The pianist made his debut in 1995 with the ensemble of the Balys Dvarionas School of Music, later named Jazz Pictures. As a member of the ensemble, he repeatedly appeared in the international festival Junior Jazz. In 2000, Jazz Pictures became the youngest group ever to appear in the Vilnius Jazz Festival. In addition to playing in peer ensembles, Dmitry Golovanov collaborates with masters of Lithuanian jazz including Leonid Shinkarenko, Eugenijus Kanevičius, Valerijus Ramoška, Arvydas Jofė, Vytautas Labutis (in his project Orkestretto), read more...