About Me
Yaremchuk Yuriy Grigorevich was born in 1951 in Novokuznetsk (Russia). Today he resides in Lviv, Ukraine.In 1978 he completed the Saxophone Class at Jazz Performance Department at Rostov Institute of Art. He performed in Kim Nazaretov’s big band as an instrumentalist.Yaremchuk is both a composer and an instrumentalist; he plays tenor-sax, soprano-sax, clarinet, percussion, piano; he is a master of voice performance as well. He is working in different genres (free jazz, contemporary music, improvised music), contemporary technique of sax play (multiphone, slap, double staccato). He can be recognized by his bright sound and brisk technique; in his solo concerts he prefers free improvisation with the use of contemporary playing technique.His music has sufficient rhythm and melody; it is full of humor and philosophy. Yuriy Yaremchuk wrote music for theater, participated in numerous avant-garde performances with artists, actors and modern dancers.In different projects he performed together with: Claudia Binder and Marcus Eichenberger (Switzerland); Jim Menesis, Fred Frith, Ray Andersen, William Parker, Hamid Drake and Rob Brown (USA); Heinz-Erich Godecke and Hans Shutler, Vladimir Chekasin, Alex Nowic, Arkadij Shilkloper, Klaus Kugel (Germany); Vladimir Miller (GB); Dror Feiler (Sweden); Tatashi Endo (dancer Japan); Sainkho Namchilak (Ireland); Ezas Mikashys and Vladimir Tarasov (Lithuania); Vyacheslav Nazarov, German Lukyanov, Vladimir Volkov, Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky, Andrey Razin, Sergey Letov, Vladislav Makarov, Mikhail Zhukov (Russia); Alexandr Nesterov (Ukraine);A participant of numerous jazz festivals, happenings, events, fests of new improvised music.
