Marina Zadorozhnaya

Marina Zadorozhnaya is a saxophonist, vocalist, arranger, songwriter, poet, teacher, creator and leader of a youth band. Education - Novokuznetsk Music College (clarinet) Novokuznetsk College of Arts (Music Theory) Kemerovo State Institute of Culture (Department of pop band and ensemble instruments, saxophone). From 2002 to 2013 - teacher, soloist of the jazz club “Helikon”. As a member of the New Kuznetsky Big Band she is a participant of the annual International Jazz Festival “Jazz at the Old Fortress”, programs with various performers such as Ron Moton, Jean Loup Longnon, Valery Ponomarev, David Goloschekin, Robert Anchipolovsky and others. Marina Zadorozhnaya collaborates with Russian and foreign musicians in concert programs and studio work, performs with author's projects, released six solo albums. Author's tracks “Ne sobrati” and “Ballad for a Mouse” were included in the releases “International Jazz Day 2023: Russia” and “International Jazz Day 2024: Russia” within the framework of the International Jazz Day and were presented at the International Forum in St. Petersburg. In 2022 Marina Zadorozhnaya's song “Your Chanel” entered the top 100 and was awarded a diploma of the International Contest “AUTHOR” by Igor Matvienko, having been highly appreciated by the jury represented by Valery Syutkin and Burito. Author Marina Zadorozhnaya's musical and poetic programs for small ensemble and big band - “Kinokhroniki” and “JAZZ conversation on souls” - are the atmosphere of coffee philosophical lyrics jazz poetry, poetic and prose miniatures, compositions of romantic mood in bossa nova style and jazz ballads. For the first time the program “Kinokhronika” in poetic-musical form was performed at Marina Zadorozhnaya's solo concert in Moscow in 2022 in JAMclub with Evgeny Bortz's trio. In 2023, “JAZZ talk on the heart” had a huge response from the audience in Kazan with the female big band “Fantasia” with Yuri Scherbakov, as well as in the State Philharmonic Society of Kuzbass with the Governor's Variety and Wind Orchestra with Anatoly Kashevarov. Marina Zadorozhnaya's performance goes beyond the traditional performance “concert” and turns into a mini-performance, giving the listener new opportunities to perceive the word with music. Marina Zadorozhnaya combines in her performance modern author's jazz in Russian, poetic pulse of the city, vocals and saxophone.