Born in 1967

A well-known jazz guitarist. Sergiy was born in Kramatorsk, and since 1980 has been living in Kiev. He was a graduate of Kyiv music secondary school named by Glier (1993) and a student of Oleksandr Kolontyrskiy. Sergiy created his first group in 1995 and then recorded first solo CD. In 1997 he renovated the Group’s cast and began performing witn musicians of his own quartet – Vadim Medvid’ (bass-guitar), Vitaliy Ivanov (saxophone), Sergiy Tabunshik (drums). Sergiy is a participant of numerous jazz festivals in Ukraine, Russia, Poland. As a guitarist he performed in “The Fest” group (1999-2001) and in a famous jazz quintet of Juriy Shepeta (1998-2002). Sergiy is an author of a big amount of original pieces, and one of them named “The Blue Dress” got among the ten best ballads on a Belgium radio (1999). Also he took part in creation and recording of numerous programmes – “I Love Brasil”, “Bluse That So Differs”, “The Chance”, “Memories of Bee-pop”, “Dedication to Bill Evance”, “Pete Methini Music”, “The Beatles in Jazz”. From time to time Sergiy collaborates with soloists and groups of differrent music genres. He took part in recording of the CD of Galina Tolchanova. Nowadays Sergiy performs in a music group “Hata”.

Discography:

Oliveyra	1996	COMP CD
The Wind of Nagual	1998	Dynasty CD
Festival “Friends’ Circle”	1999	JRC CD
Galyna Tolchanova - “The Night Has Gone but the Day Has Drawn Near”	1999	Dynasty CD
Rothmans Jazz collection	1999	JRC CD
Jazz Inside, Vol. 1 collection	2000	JRC CD
Jazz Ballads collection	2001	JRC CD
Jazz Inside, Vol. 2 collection	2001	JRC CD
Jazz festival in Vinnitsa	2001	JRC CD
Y.Shepeta quartet - “Dedication to Bill Evance”	2001	Lemma CD
Yellow & Blue	2001	Lemma CD
Jazzium, Vol. 1	2002	Lemma CD