Born in Kiev,
Ukraine, saxophonist ARKADY [hear pronunciation ] resides in New York City, where he keeps a busy schedule
-- performing, recording, producing, composing, arranging,
and teaching.
Arkady's music education began in Ukraine, Glier
Music College, and continued in the USA, at the Manhattan
School of Music, where he received a Master of Music Degree,
on a full scholarship, and won The
Andrew Goodman Prize for Best Clarinetist. He was also
a member of the New
York Youth Symphony.
Arkady's
career covers
many diverse areas of the New York City music scene, plus touring: USA, including Hawaii and
Puerto Rico, Canada, England,
France, Switzerland, Belgium, Ukraine, Israel, Japan, etc.
As a multi-woodwind specialist, Arkady has
performed in
a wide variety of settings:
Symphony,
opera and ballet orchestras: The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Concordia, New
York Pops, Pilobolus Dance Company (with Klezmatics at
the Joyce Theater); under
the batons of Gunther
Schuller, Michael
Tilson Thomas, Marin
Alsop;
on such prestigious stages as Carnegie
Hall and Lincoln
Center
Broadway
and TV: Chicago,
42nd Street, Guys and Dolls, Big River, Marilyn:
An American
Fable; "Late
Show" with David
Letterman on
CBS, on MTV with "Weird
Al" Yankovic, Andrew
Taylor [Duran Duran]
Concerts: Tony
Bennett, Jon
Bon Jovi, Bob
Dylan, Garth
Brooks, Gloria
Estefan, Natalie
Cole, Trisha
Yearwood, Jill
Scott, Monica
Mancini, The
Irish Tenors, Tommy Tune, Raphael, Joan
Rivers, Lesley
Gore, Mary
Wilson, The Dells, The
Temptations, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Drew Barrymore
Jazz: Randy
Brecker, Bob
Mintzer, Dick
Oatts, Bob
Sheppard, Ronnie
Cuber, Tom
Scott, George
Young, Frank
Wess, Bill
Evans; John
Patitucci, Janek
Gwizdala; Vinnie
Colaiuta, Louis
Hayes,
Joel
Rosenblatt,
Dick Weller; Valerie
Ponomarev, Lew
Soloff,
Brian
Lynch; Ted
Rosenthal, Mike
Holober, Uri
Caine, Lee
Musiker; The
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Charles
Mingus Big Band, Bill
Warfield Big Band, The
Ed Palermo Big Band, Dave
Grusin -- West
Side Story All
Star Band (Carnegie Hall, with Jon
Faddis, featuring Gloria
Estefan and Jonathan
Butler); Jay
Azzolina, Mike
Miller, Oz
Noy, Bill
Bickford, Mason
Brothers...
Latin
and World Music: Mario
Bauzá, Sammy
Figueroa, Dave
Valentin, Candido, Yuri
Yunakov, Arto
Tuncboyaciyan, Ara
Dinkjian, Spiros
Exaras, Gilad,
Miri Ben-Ari...
A charismatic performer-composer-poet, and ever a Renaissance
man, about his own life, Arkady says:
"It's like a movie...
Can't Make It Up!!!"
Stay tuned...