BIOGRAPHY

Pasha Karchevsky is a rising-star jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. Austin Winds and Reunion Blues artist. Pasha won many prestigious international competitions and performed worldwide at major venues and jazz festivals. 

Over the past 15 years of his professional career, Pasha shared the stage with many top-tier artists such as Mireille Mathieu, Wynton Marsalis, Dafnis Pietro Big Band, Bob Mintzer, Conrad Herwig, Terence Blanchard, Allan Harris, Alex Sipiagin among others. 

In 2015 as an educator, Pasha published his first book, "12 Jazz Trumpet Transcriptions". In 2018 Pasha completed his first album, "Hope," as a leader, which featured Gabriel Vicens on guitar, Eddy Khaimovich on bass, and Samvel Sarkisyan on drums. 

Pasha was born in Novokuznetsk, Russia, in 1989. His father was a driver, and his mother was a dispatcher. None in his family was interested in music. At age fifteen, Pasha picked up his first trumpet just out of the blue. He immediately fell in love with this instrument, and no matter what, Pasha decided to continue his life as a musician. 

When he was 17, he enrolled in Novosibirsk Musical College, named after Murov, where he met his first teacher and mentor, Vladimir Ivanovich Lobanov. While studying in Novosibirsk, Pasha participated International Competition of Young Jazz Performers 2009. He took grand-Prix. In 2010 Pasha graduated with honors from that college and went to Moscow for an audition at the Russian Academy of Music, named after Gnesin. After a successful audition, Pasha enrolled in the Academy. 

From 2010-2014 Pasha was a soloist in «Academic Band» led by the People's Artist of Russia Anatoly Kroll and «Big Jazz Orchestra» led by trumpeter Peter Vostokov. During that time, Pasha participated in many festivals in Moscow and other Russian cities with these bands. 

In December 2014, Pasha participated in the international competition "Gnesin Jazz." He became a winner at once in 4 nominations:

• "The best instrumentalist"

• "The best original composition"

• "The best ensemble" and "The best arrangement of the jazz standard" 

On April 30, 2015, Anatoly Kroll invited Alexander Oseichuck's ensemble to the concert devoted to the Day of Jazz. The ensemble leader was Pasha Karchevsky, who performed the original composition. The original composition, "Road from," was announced by radio Jazz for the Day of Jazz in Moscow. 

In June 2015, Pasha Karchevsky published his first book, "12 Jazz Trumpet Transcriptions". The book received excellent comments. Pasha became the first man in Russia who publish a book for the jazz trumpet. The largest jazz magazine in Russia "Jazz.ru" published an interview about this book. 

In the fall of 2014, Igor Butman made the special program "Future of the Jazz," on which he presented new jazz generation from different countries: Pasha Karchevsky (Russia), Azat Bayazitov (Tatarstan), Polina Zizak (Russia), Russel Hall(USA), Evan Sherman(USA). At the concert in Tchaikovsky's Hall, Pasha showed himself as a young jazz composer.

From 2013-2015 Pasha was a member of the worldwide famous Jazz band "The Moscow State Jazz Orchestra" consisting of outstanding Russian jazz musicians led by Igor Butman. In 1999, Igor Butman founded the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, and since then, it has quickly become the hottest ensemble of its kind in Russia and around the World. Throughout his collaboration, Pasha had tours across countries and continents in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Far East, Russia, and elsewhere. 

Since 2015 Pasha Karchevsky has lived in New York, where he collaborates with many well-known musicians and bands such as David Berger Big Band, Dafnis Prieto Big Band, Eddie Allen Big Band, Art Lillard Big band and sextet, Ska Jazz Orchestra, Ed Palermo Big Band, Ron Wilkins Big Band, Bump City Band, Alex Sipiagin, Steve LaSpina, Valery Ponomarev, Peter Brainin, and many more.