Lenny Sendersky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, gained his renown in the Russian jazz scene as a visionary composer, performer and producer. His compositions have been performed by international jazz musicians, including Randy Brecker, Joe Locke, Alexi Tuomarila, Amos Hoffman, and many others. Sendersky launched his international career living and performing in Denmark for two years. In 2011, he immigrated to Israel, where he established himself in the jazz scene by performing and successfully producing projects featuring Israeli, American and European jazz artists. His recent co-produced album with Tony Romano was recorded in New York City, USA, and features contemporary jazz giants: trumpeter Randy Brecker and vibraphonist Joe Locke.
Lenny’s projects with musicians from Europe, USA and Russia included, among others:– Randy Brecker, Joe Locke, Ernesto Simson, Cleve Douglas ,Tony Romano (USA)– Amos Hoffman, Anat Fort, Slava Ganelin, Gregory Rivkin, Guri Agmon Big Band, Tel-Aviv Big Band (Israel)– Sinne Egg (Denmark), Alexi Tuomarila and Kari Ikonen (Finland), Jaak Sooaar and Kadri Voorand (Estonia)– “Nichey Quartet”, Alexey Degusarov, “Fresh” with Olga Senderskaya, Andrey Kondakov, Victoria Urusova and Roman Stolyar; Gennady Golshtein Big Band, Evgeny Lebedev (Russia) and more.
Tony Romano – guitar player from New York (USA). Guitarist Tony Romano has been a visible part of the New York City music scene for over twenty years. Just Jazz Guitar magazine wrote “His tone is beautiful and soulful, and his remarkable technique is a servant to his rich musical imagination and broad harmonic palette.” With a wide range of playing styles, Tony has toured worldwide and performed and recorded with many notable Jazz, Latin, Pop, and Broadway artists, including Randy Brecker, Joe Locke, Joe Bataan, Dave Valentin, Candido Camero, Yomo Toro, Joel Frahm, Brit Woodman, Santi DeBriano, Stanley Jordan, Debbie Gibson, Alex Gemignani, and Chuck Cooper. Tony’s guitar work can be heard on all 52 episodes of the BBC series 3rd & Bird. He has also performed for the Discovery Channel miniseries Going, Going, Gone! as well as on NPR Broadcasts, and has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, Telemundo, and the ABC Morning Show. Tony is an Associate Professor at Five Towns College, and has been a Teaching Artist for the Kupferberg Center at Queens College, as well as an instructor for the National Guitar Workshop for ten years.
Leonid Nesterov began his music career in Latvia and has lived in Limassol since 2010; he plays with different musicians around Cyprus sharing his passion for jazz performing with various musicians from Baltic States, Germany, Cyprus, Russia and Israel.
Nicolas Tryphonos was born in Limassol and studied electric bass at Nakas Conservatory in Athens, at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Conservatory of Utrecht where he graduated in Jazz double bass; Nikolas Tryphonos is an active musician in Cyprus’ flourishing music scene and often travels to The Netherlands to play.Andreas Stephanou one of the best drummers in Cyprus. From the age of 9 he starts playing percussions and starts playing live with various musical groups in band competitions, concerts and recordings. After his service in the military philharmonic orchestra he continues studying percussions with George Koulas and in 2007 is accepted at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in Holland in the direction of Latin Jazz. Parallel to his studies he presents and takes part in various projects like The Hague Festival Latin Fanatics with musicians from all over the globe, with Nelson Faria, Anna Ellis de Jong and others. He lives and activates himself musically in Limassol, Cyprus playing at musical venues all over the island.
