MISHA TSIGANOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, into a family of artists, with his father a sculptor and his mother, a music teacher. He began to play piano at the age of six and graduated from Mussorgsky College of Music.
In 1990 Misha received prize-winner-diploma of the All-Russia Jazz Competition.
In 1991 he was invited to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston by legendary vibraphonist Gary Burton and two years later he moved to New York.
Since 1998 Misha is working with Norman Hedman..s Tropique with whom he recorded an album “Taken By Surprise†2000 on Palmetto records and "Garden Of Forbidden Fruit" 2003 on PowerLight Media.
2003 - 2004 Misha is working with Chico Freeman, with whom he recorded an album “Out Of Many Comes The One†2003 on Arabesque records.
In 2004 Misha recorded an album “NGFOOT†(Nine Guys From Out Of Town), produced and directed by Stu Gardner, with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker and Dave Valentin.
Since 2004 Misha is working with Joe Chambers with whom he recorded an album "The Outlaw" 2005 on Savant records.
Misha has performed at many international jazz festivals and clubs around the world.
Misha Tsiganov can be heard weekly as the featured pianist on the Bill Cosby television cartoon Little Bill, where Misha worked 1999-2002, which currently airs Monday-Friday on Nickelodeon on weekends on the CBS television network, which soundtrack features voice-overs by Phylicia Rashad, Rosie Perez, Gregory Hines, the late Madeline Kahn and Bill Cosby. His identifiable Little Bill piano sounds are also featured in Paramount Pictures / Viacom’s newly released Little Bill videos, now available in stores throughout the country.
Misha is currently working on the next Norman Hedman's project. Alicia Keys is performing on the project and she has written songs. This project is producing by the nine time Grammy award-winnig Krucial Keys Production Company.
Misha has performed and recorded with such musicians as Clark Terry, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Valentin, Joe Chambers, Gary Bartz,
John Faddis, Buster Williams, Claudio Roditi, Richie Cole, Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson, Victor Lewis, Norman Hedman, Vincent Herring, Johnny Colon, Papo Pepin, Ray Vega, Valeri Ponomarev, Bobby Porchelly, Willie Martinez, Bobby Sanabria, Joe Lock, Hendrik Meurkens, Graig Handy, John Benitez, Adam Rogers, Dean Brown, Ira Coleman, Antonio Sanchez,
Gene Jackson and others.
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