Arkady Shilkloper
Arkady Shilkloper
The critic Jeffrey Agrell referred to Shilkloper’s style as: ''Arkady Shilkloper goes to places that
horn players aren't supposed to go without a net, map, seat belt, crash helmet, overhead air support,
and a note from their mothers.And he does so with extraordinary ease and musicality.
I think maybe nobody ever told him "Jazz playing on horn is very difficult, and probably not
natural" or perhaps the phrase does not translate into Russian.
I'd walk on a camel for a mile to hear this guy. ''Jazz Times Magazine wrote:“His control of the
instrument, and his blowing creativity have set a new standard, even Julius Watkins, his idol never
produced such results.”
Arkady Shilkloper was born in 1956, in Moscow, Russia. He began to study alto horn at the age of
six and switched to French horn in 1967. At the age of eleven he entered the Moscow Military
Music School. One of most unusual Russian ...
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