Igor Yakovenko - Hyperfocus (2023) Hi Res

Igor Yakovenko Trio presents it’s new album “Hyperfocus”. All compositions are written by Yakovenko and the name of the record is based on the idea of ​​developing the depth of the music, but not the volume of it, concentrating on a small amount of information and endless listening. This minimalist approach to jazz helps the listener to focus deeply on one emotion and explore, and feel it as much as possible.

Composer and pianist Igor Yakovenko belongs to a new generation of musicians with no boundaries between classical and non-academic music, switching the roles between author and performer. For him, there is also no boundaries between creativity and the exact sciences: choosing between music and technology in his youth, he first graduated from the Aerospace University.

Engineering education pushed Yakovenko to overcome the isolation of the musical worlds: he studied at the Moscow Conservatory at the Department of Historical and Modern Instrumental Performance, and also received an improvisational degree at the Maimonides Academy under the guidance of Igor Bril. Combining the exemplary classical school of piano and harpsichord with the skill of a jazz pianist, he is a versatile musician with a unique signature style.

Yakovenko's virtuoso and instantly recognizable playing is appreciated by listeners of his solo and piano trio concerts. In 2020 he became a member of the residence of Snape Maltings (Great Britain), which hosts the world-famous Aldeburgh Festival founded by Benjamin Britten.

A contrasting musical background led Yakovenko to numerous projects: he wrote the opera “Guilty” for the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, released five albums in the FANCYMUSIC label - a place of power for innovative composer music, performed at leading art venues - Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum, National Center for Contemporary Art, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Spiridonov House, and academic halls - Zaryadye Concert Hall, State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, etc.

Now residing in Italy, Yakovenko is ready to release his new trio album “Hyperfocus” on Rainy Days label with Sasha Mashin on the drums and Makar Novikov on the double bass.