Arkady Shilkloper
At the age of eleven he entered the Moscow Military
Music School. One of most unusual Russian musicians, Arkady plays French horn, flugelhorn,
alphorn and many more wind instruments. From 1978 to 1985 he was a member of the orchestra of
the Bolshoi Theatre. With this world-famous orchestra and as a member of the Moscow
Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 to 1989, he undertook numerous worldwide concert tours.
Since 1990 he has been a member of the Moscow Art Trio along with Misha Alperin and Sergey
Starostin, occasionally playing in other formations as well.
Shilkloper played with Lionel Hampton, Elvin Jones, Lew Soloff and Herb Ellis. He also has
worked with Pierre Favre, Louis Sclavis, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Jon Christensen, Bob Stewart.
Since 1997, Arkady is part of two Russian trios: one with St. Petersburg’s best jazzmen– acoustic
bassist Vladimir Volkov and piano player Andrei Kondakov, and the other with Vladimir Volkov
and Sergei Starostin
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