Alexei Rumiantsev
Alexei "Alexandrovich" Rumiantsev (born May 31, 1969) is a Russian jazz and ragtime pianist and classical music composer. His nickname is “RAGTIMEPA", thus he named his band “GRANDPA’S RAGTIME BAND". Biography. At the age of six, Alexei Rumiantsev took piano lessons and learned the basic technique of playing as well as music theory under Mrs. Tatiana Tavrovskaya. He attended music school for children in Cherepovets and participated in several competitions among young pianists. In 1983, he moved to St. Petersburg in order to attend the preparatory school for the St. Petersburg state conservatory, then studied composition under  Prof. Alexander Mnatsakanian. In 1992, he went to Germany to study both classic compositions under Prof. Christoph Meyer and jazz piano under Prof. John Tailor at the Cologne Conservatory as a student on a scholarship. Rumiantsev is married to a ragtime and jazz singer Hiromi Rumiantseva.