Roman Miroshnichenko

Jazz • Moscow, 127224, RU

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About the Artist

Roman Miroshnichenko is a multi-Award-winning virtuoso guitarist, composer, producer and recording engineer. He is one of the premier guitarists of the new generation of the jazz-fusion music. Voting member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMY®. He has received a total of 50-plus nominations with 23 wins in multiple international songwriting contests and music awards in 9 countries, including four the Independent Music Awards, three the Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominees, 1st Prize of the USA Songwriting Competition, 1st Prize of the International Acoustic Music Awards, Gold medal of the Global Music Awards, Film Music Contest absolute winner and 4-times laureate of the United Kingdom Songwriting Contest. His soaring career as an artist includes numerous collective performances, and recordings with such world-renowned musicians as Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Mike Stern, Jennifer Batten, Marco Mendoza, Heather Headley, Paul Wertico, Gary Husband, Trilok Gurtu, Simon Phillips, Stu Hamm, Djivan Gasparyan, Daniel “Pipi“ Piazzolla, as well as famous academic musical groups - the London Symphony Orchestra and the Russian National Orchestra. In 2008 - 2017 he toured regularly in a duo with with ‘Godfather of fusion’ Larry Coryell. "Roman is a magnificent guitarist and 'the real soldier' who has perfect feeling of my music along with phenomenal technique". – Steve Vai noted. Roman Miroshnichenko was born in 1977, and his first musical experience was on drums. However, when he was fourteen, he became interested in jazz-fusion, heavily influenced by such guitar legends as John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Larry Coryell, and Al Di Meola. In 2002, Roman founded his band and has been touring regularly since then all across Europe, Asia, and the USA. In 2013 Hal Leonard Books released “The Great Jazz Guitarists” encyclopedia, the most comprehensive guide to jazz guitarists ever published (from Django Reinhardt to Les Paul, Jeff Beck and beyond) with information about Roman Miroshnichenko. Al Di Meola commented on Miroshnichenko's award-winning album «Ascension»: “Roman's adventurous complex playing and songs take the listener on a tour de force journey. Carrying on with a great tradition of fusion well done!” Since 2016 Roman Miroshnichenko is the judging panel member of the Independent Music Awards program, along with Tom Waits, Robert Smith, Joe Satriani, Ziggy Marley, The Cardigans, Slayer, Mick Ralphs, Roberta Flack, John Petrucci, Carl Palmer, Sepultura, Gloria Gaynor and others. Since 2017, Roman Miroshnichenko is an international projects director of the biggest in Europe guitar festival «World of Guitar», held in Kaluga. Roman Miroshnichenko is the official artist/endorser of the Italian company IK Multimedia, Japanese company Roland Music, Swiss company Schertler SA, British company Orange Amps and American companies: Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Ovation Guitars, and D’Addario & Company Inc.

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