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  • Genre: Jazz

    Location Shanghai, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 13479

    Last Login: 1/30/2013

    Member Since 8/3/2008

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. Andres began piano lessons at the age of six. He later switched to the clarinet while getting deeply involved with the strong revivalist jazz scene in Argentina during the mid seventies. While stylistically evolving within the jazz idiom, Andres began playing the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones. In 1978 he left for London, England, to study at the renowned Royal College of Music from where he received an A.R.C.M. Diploma. During his British sojourn, he formed his own group and recorded his first solo album for Spotlight Records and several radio programs for the BBC. After completing his studies in England, Boiarsky returned to his homeland where he spent the next six years recrding two solo albums for CBS records. In 1988, with the encouragement of Paquito D'Rivera and Carlos Franzetti, he moves to New York. A few months after his arrival Boiarsky joins the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, he would later become the band's musical director till 1993. From 1993 to 1998, Andres was a member of the United Nation Orchestra under the direction of D'Rivera. In 1997 after recording the CD "Dizzy's 80th Birthday", alongside Jon Faddis and Cyrus Chesnut among other jazz greats, he also becomes part of the pool of outstanding musicians that make the "Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All Stars" performing all over the world at the most prestigious venues/festivals. As a sideman, Boiarsky participated in many recordings by the likes of: Slide Hampton, Paquito D'Rivera, Jimmy Heath, Nancy Wilson, The United Nation Orchestra, Claudio Roditi, Lionel Hampton, Al Di Meola, to name but a few. In 1996 he recorded "Into the Light", his first album as a leader for a North American label available through Reservoir Records. In 2004, Boiarsky starts a musical partnership with Japanese pianist Tomoko Ohno. While on tour performing in Argentina, they record the CD "Shadows of Spring" for MDR Records, released in May 2005. In 2006 they record for the same label a follow up CD to "Shadows of Spring", released in November 2006. As an educator Boiarsky has a vast experience that spans over thirty years of teaching in the US, South America and China. In the US he gave clinics at prestigious institutions such as the University of Idaho and the George Mason University in Virginia. His solo performances took him among other places as far as Alaska, Singapore, Russia and several South American countries. From 2007 till December 2011, Andres resided in Shanghai, China becoming actively involved in the local Jazz scene. Having returned to New York in January 2012, he has become a full time member of the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars Big Band replacing one of his main mentors: the great James Moody, as well as focusing on his own musical projects.

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    In music as in every other aspect of life, I enjoy listening to anybody who overcomes the temptation of expressing themselves using somebody else's "voice"...

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