Andrew K.

Andrew Krasilnikov was born in 1984 in Moscow, Russia.He started to play saxophone at age of 9 in music school. Between 1999 and 2003 he attended the Moscow College of Jazz Arts where he studied under Sergei Rezantsev. In 2003, Andrew entered Gnessins’ Russian Academy of Music where he studied with the best saxophone tutor in Russia Alexander Oseichuk. Andrew played and recorded with the best Russian musicians, also in august 2006 he recorded the CD with jazz trio in Poland, played on tour arround Russia with worldwide known Billy Cobham ( http://www.billycobham.com/ ) in April and September 2007, and also performed as special guest with the International Big-Band ( http://www.international-bigband.com/ ) featuring Denis Rowland ( http://www.dennisrowland.com/ ) in Germany ( October 2007) . In April 2007 Andrew released his first album called "Serpentine" In may 2007, he entered Berklee College of Music on scholarship.