Igor Petrovich Khoroshev

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Igor Petrowitsch Choroschew ( Russian Игорь Петрович Хорошев , English transcription Igor Khoroshev ; born July 14, 1965 in Moscow ) is a Russian musician living in the USA.

Life

The Russian-born keyboardist, who now lives in the USA, has been playing the piano since he was four and learned to play the horn , trombone , guitar , bass and drums in his home country . He is a studied musician.

In the early 1990s he moved to Boston , where he worked with Benjamin Orr from the band The Cars , among others . Carl Jacobson of Cakewalk software, which are 9 Pro Audio he contributed at least 30 original compositions, it presented in 1997 Jon Anderson , the lead singer of progressive rock - band Yes before.

Khoroshev first became known to a wider audience as the keyboardist of Yes. He was a member of the band from 1998 to 2000. For the album Open Your Eyes (released in 1997) he was called in as a paid keyboard player late in the sessions, as Rick Wakeman had previously left the band. However, he was not yet a permanent member of the band. Most of the keyboard parts had been recorded by new member Billy Sherwood . Khoroshev replaced some of Sherwood's parts, and Steve Howe had a guitar solo removed to make room for Khoroshev's additional contribution. He can be heard on New State of Mind , No Way We Can Lose and Fortune Seller .

Choroschew then played the keyboard instruments during the Open Your Eyes tour and became a permanent member of the band during the tour (see also " House of Yes - Live from House of Blues "). He can also be heard on the follow-up " The Ladder ".

In 1999 Khoroschew released his first solo album Piano Works . He also contributed to the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album Encores, Legends and Paradox .

Khoroshev had to leave the band when he sexually molested a young woman after a concert. Since leaving Yes, he has been composing film music with little success. Collaborations with other musicians (like MAO Inhibitor) were mostly fruitless. A project with Yes singer Jon Anderson ( True You True Me ) also failed.

Discography

solo

  • Piano Works (1999)

With yes

see Yes

More work

personal data
SURNAME Khoroshev, Igor Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khoroshev, Igor; Khoroshev, Igor; Хорошев, Игорь Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow