Madonna and Kolpakov Trio, La Isla Bonita. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008
Madonna and Kolpakov Trio,You Must Love Me. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008
Madonna and Kolpakov Trio, Doli Doli. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008
Madonna and Kolpakov Trio, live. La isla bonita/Le la pala tute
Vadim Kolpakov performing gypsy dance. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008
Kolpakov Trio and Madonna. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008 ,slide show.
Influences
Alexander Kolpakov Trio, Nikolay Slichenko and the Romen theatre, Buzylyovy family, Sergey Orekhov, Nikolay Erdenko, Loyko, Django Reinhardt, Paco De Lucia, Pat Matheny, Roby Lakatos.
Russian Romani (Gypsy) 7-string guitar, voice & dance.
Vadim Kolpakov is one of the most prominent and renowned Russian Roma (Gypsy) 7-string guitarists in the world. He was a lead musician of the Moscow Roma (Gypsy) Theatre Romen, where he performed as a guitarist, composer, vocalist, dancer and dramatic actor. To this day, his original guitar compositions are performed in many prominent plays at the theatre as part of the vibrant oral tradition of the Russian Roma culture. Hailing from Saratov, Russia, Vadim graduated from the Roma performing arts school Gilori and studied guitar with his uncle Alexander Kolpakov, the virtuoso Russian 7-string guitarist who served as the musical director of the Romen Gypsy Theatre for over a quarter of a century. At the age of 15, Vadim began work at the Romen Gypsy Theatre, where he worked for 8 years and was the leading guitarist for 7 years.
In 2008, Vadim Kolpakov as a member of the Kolpakov Trio, went on the world tour “Sticky & Sweet” with Madonna. They performed in many European and South American countries, as well as in North America and Mexico, including venues such as Wembley stadium in London, Madison Square Garden in NYC and Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Vadim has performed extensively in Russia and abroad. He has given concerts in Carnegie Hall (New York City), as well as in the Kremlin (Moscow) for the Russian president Putin, the Kazakhstan president Nazarbaev, and for both the Finnish and Portuguese presidents and parliaments. Vadim has also performed in Europe with the Russian Gypsy group Gelem as lead guitarist, and performed in the famous Roma festival Khamoro in the Czech capital, Prague. He has performed in innumerable other musical projects on Russian, Canadian and American television and radio and was invited to record his own compositions for the soundtrack of the Finnish motion picture Mire Bala Kale Hin. He has recorded several CDs with Alexander Kolpakov and the group Gelem. In 1999, Vadim participated in the major concert tour 'Gypsy Caravan' as part of the famous Romani group The Kolpakov Trio. Selected as leading representatives of the Russian Romani musical tradition, The Kolpakov Trio gave several unforgettable concerts in America and Canada together with premier Gypsy musical groups from 5 other countries: Taraf de Haiduks (Romania), Antonio El Pipa Ensemble (Spain), Musafir (India), Kaly jag (Hungary) and Yuri Yunakov Ensemble (Bulgaria/USA). The New York Times singled out Vadim's virtuoso guitar playing while playing on that tour, which was organized by World Music Institute and included over 15 major American and Canadian cities, including an appearance at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (Washington D.C.) and Sanders Theatre at Harvard University.
In 2003, the Russian American ensemble TALISMAN invited him to reconstruct and record music of the Russian Roma of the 1820s. The resulting recording, A Tribute to Stesha, was released by NAXOS in 2005, and the program was featured at the Boston Early Music Festival 2005.
In that performance, Vadim repeatedly brought the audience to their feet with his expert guitar skills, his passionate dancing and also his singing. Since then, he has recorded several other collaborative projects with the group to be released in 2008, including Dostoevsky’s Jews and Gypsies (music and dance vignettes drawn from The Brothers Karamazov) and Mikhail Vysotskiy and the Gypsies (an examination of the musical sharing of vocabulary between the early Russian and Roma guitar and vocal traditions). With TALISMAN, he has taken part in performances and lecture/demonstrations at Harvard University, Boston University, Oberlin College, University of Iowa and Grinnell College, and interviews on NPR, teaching audiences about the Roma nationality and cultural tradition through music and dance. Vadim has also performed and recorded Romani activist songs with Eugene Hutz (the lead singer of Gogol Bordello), which he hopes will promote understanding of the Roma nationality and human rights.
In 2004, Vadim assembled his own group VIA Romen, which has performed at venues such as the New York Gypsy Festival (Roxy Club, NYC), The Festival of International Cultural Exchange (Portland, Maine), and at clubs such as the Avalon and the Middle East (Boston), Club Pearl (Miami), Signet Club at Harvard University, Royalty Theatre (Clearwater, FL), Regent Theatre (Boston), Romani Yag Gypsy Festival (Montreal, Canada), World Theatre and Music Festival (Colorado Springs, CO) among others. Music by VIA Romen was featured at the Sydney Theatre (Australia) for the production of The Cherry Orchard by A. Chekhov.
In August 2007, Mr. Kolpakov was exclusively invited to perform at the English residency of the famous popular singer Madonna and her husband, the movie director Guy Ritchie. He performed as a part of the celebrated Kolpakov Trio with Eugene Hutz on Madonna’s birthday.
Vadim also performs with Zingaresca, which he co-founded with Dr. Oleg Timofeyev (world specialist in Russian seven-string guitar, from the University of Iowa) and which is dedicated to the Russian and Russian-Gypsy guitar repertoire, and as a special guest with various artists and bands in the US, such as Barynya (a Russian Folk music and dance ensemble), Gypsy Klezmorim (a Jewish-Romani cross over project band), and others.
Vadim’s musical repertoire includes Russian- and Gypsy-style compositions by Alexander Kolpakov, music by Sergey Orekhov, 19th-century Russian 7-string guitar repertoire and his own compositions and improvisations on Gypsy, Russian, classical, rap and world music. He works exclusively in the oral tradition and has been teaching traditional Roma guitar, dance and vocal repertoire two semesters in 2006 and in 2007 as an Artist-In-Residence at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET
People interested in Romani (Gypsy), Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Klezmer folk songs, dance and music.
Hi Vadim, how are you? Wishing you a wonderful week, full of love, peace and happiness! Hugs and kisses Louise
PS: If you haven't had a chance yet, please have a look at the music video of my song, 'My Heart is a Sea', at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWy2ibd8pwA
Privet, moi lu4sii drug Vadim. Kak dela, u menja vse horoso. U nas est" odna obsaja znakomaja, Miritza. Ona o4en" horoso otzivalas" o tebe. Kogda ti sobiraesja priehat" v Finljandiju? Horoso bi vmeste provesti vremja i poigrat" na gitarah. Tebe nado naiti nremja i priehat". Hvatit smotret" BARAK OBAME v glaza, lu4se priezai posmotret" v moi glaza. Pisi na angliiskom, potomu 4to sei4as mne pomogla napisat" moja assisrent. So4inim vmeste krasivuju muziku i vse me4ti sbudutsja. Poka, Vadim pisi ja budu zdat".
I got back to Los Angeles the earlier this week after putting 4000 miles on my jeep driving around the southwest. I woke up in the morning to find that my new album had finally become available on Amazon.com. While some of these songs were written as much as 4 years ago, some in hawaii right after cambodia, mexico, california since then, they still capture who I am and how I feel, the fluctuation between my failures and my ideals, growth and the serene moments I live for and between the desire to live in the mountains and the importance of being engaged in the world. I hope that you'll listen and enjoy. You can check out most of the songs for free streaming from www.reverbnation.com/tullymackaytisbert. The album is called 'Anitya.' It is acoustic folk rock with some traditional east asian influences.
. Pisi na angliiskom, potomu 4to sei4as mne pomogla napisat" moja assisrent. So4inim vmeste krasivuju muziku i vse me4ti sbudutsja. Poka, Vadim pisi ja budu zdat".
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