Sergey Chipenko/TransAtlantic

Kindness-Sergey Chipenko & Dave Koz, Jeff Lorber&Will Kennedy
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Sergei Chipenko was born on July, 3 of 1961 in a small, but very beautiful Bashkir town Sterlitamak. His father is a professional bayan player who has been working as a principal of the music-school for many years. As it often happens in the families of musicians, his son’s future was predetermined.The 5th-years-old Sergei began to make himself familian with the vocal ABC in the choral studio, and later he started the music-school, piano. The talent of the young musician were appreciated at its true value and with the purpose of more effective development of his talents the 9year old pianist was taken from his family and put further education to the central music-school in the city of Ufa.Being put to the class of Alexander Davydovich Frank and having finished the music-school with excellent marks, Sergei acquired the richest professional basis which stands him in good stead until today. Since childhood Sergei Chipenko’s way lighted by the stars. Alexander Davydovich Frank being the graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, the class of prof. Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov, who was Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninov’s friend and companion was proud of his diligent student, and he introdused Sergei to his friend Svyatoslav Theofilovich Richter.It seems natural that either a beginning musician, or the acknowledged one would consider the opportunity to make acquaintance with such a great composer as Rodion Konstantinovich Shedrin, a real wonder. Once Shedrin visited Ufa and took alay with him one of his newly composed pieces. Frank introduced the wonderchild to Shedrin and it was for the 1st time that Shedrin’s prelude & fuga la-major was played at the concert by the pupil of the Central music-school of the town Ufa, Sergei Chipenko.Soon after that Sergei also met Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich and had a chance to play the prelude & fuga re-minor for him. That was an unforgettable experience! After finishing school Sergei continued to study as Prof. Alexander Davydovich Frank’s student. After graduating from the institute he stayed to work there as a teacher. But that couldn’t last long, because Sergei already saw that he was predestined to become a creating and playing musician rather than a teacher of music. It was an ufterly new for percepting and a bit hard for the Soviet mentality music that helped Sergei to find himself. Having determined the jazz rock style as basic for himself, Sergey started moving in that direction. That was just how the academic musician went into jazz rock, the precedent having caused the puzzlement and misunderstanding on the part of his friends and colleagues. To become a musician and play the improvisation music, a man should be a composer in his soul. First of all it’s his attitude to life. Having felt inside himself the need to express the image of the spring sun and all his previous impression in music, Sergey began to compose. Sergei play consert in Moscow together with very famouse musicians; David Mann, Nicky Richards, Phil Perry, Dave Koz, Brian Simpson, Eric Marienthal, Chuck Loeb, Jeff Lorber, Jimmy Haslip, Will Kennedy...Janna-Sergey Chipenko & Dave Koz, Jeff Lorber&Will Kennedy
Scotland-Sergey Chipenko & Chuck Loeb (with TransAtlantic)