Dimitri Naïditch

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Dimitri Naïditch (2014)

Dimitri Naïditch ( Ukrainian Дмитро Найдич Dmytro Najdytsch ; * 1963 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian musician (piano, composition) who is known for his crossover productions between Eastern European folklore , classical music and jazz .

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Naïditch, whose mother was considered one of the best piano teachers in the Soviet Union for children and adolescents, received piano lessons from an early age. As a child prodigy, he performed in various concert halls in his hometown of Kiev. At the age of 17, after completing his studies at the Special School of Music for Gifted Children in Kiev, he obtained a diploma as a concert pianist, in order to continue his education at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kiev.

In 1988 he won the Vilnius National Piano Competition and in 1989 the Kalis International Competition. In 1990 Naïditch finished his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with four first prizes (performance, chamber music, professorate and accompaniment). From an early age he also appeared as a jazz pianist at jazz festivals in Eastern Europe, Switzerland and Italy and performed his own compositions. In the field of classical music, he worked with the Kiev National Philharmonic , the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and the Cannes and Lille symphony orchestras .

Naïditch has lived in France as a concert pianist since 1991. After a tour, the musicians of the Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire invited him to play in the Lyon area; In 1992 he moved to Lyon; since 1994 he has been teaching at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon .

In 1999 he founded Les Mélomanies d'Annonay, a festival for classical music and jazz, in which he realized numerous projects, especially for symphony orchestra and piano. He also appeared with the Lyon formation Marmite Infernal ( A las barricadas , 1996; Au Charbon!, 2001), played in a trio with Jean-Jacques Avenel and Joël Allouche , in a duet with Gilles Apap , Vladimir Chevel and Alessandro Quarta. With Didier Lockwood he recorded his Divertimento pour piano & violon ›Mr Casa‹ . He also accompanied Richard Galliano , Pierre Amoyal , Howard Buten , Rick Margitza , Andy Sheppard and Marie-Claude Pietragalla. Together with Caroline Casadesus and Didier Lockwood, he performed the show Le Jazz et la Diva more than 200 times. He also developed the solo show Ma Vie en Morceaux . In recent years he has presented adaptations of the works of Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

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Discography

  • De l'Avis d'un Clown (IDA Records 1996)
  • Cossia (Ames / Harmonia Mundi 2005)
  • Didier Lockwood & Caroline Casadesus Le Jazz et la Diva (Ames 2006)
  • Francis Lai, Dimitri Naïditch, Laurent Couson Chacun sa vie (Masterworks 2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1993 he won (in a duo with Laurent Blumenthal) the national jazz competition of La Défense .
  2. ↑ Entry (CNSM Lyon)
  3. ↑ On the NATO double album Buenaventura Durruti
  4. ↑ On Lockwood's album Les Mouettes .
personal data
SURNAME Naïditch, Dimitri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Найдич, Дмитро (Ukrainian); Najdytsch, Dmytro (transcribed in Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR