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Career

Performances at the festivals

  • " Jazz on Dnepr 2000 ", Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
  • " Boheme Guitar Festival 2001 ", Moscow.
  • " Viva La Fiesta Latina 2002 ", Moscow.
  • " Tudengijazz 2003 " Tallinn, Estonia
  • " Boheme Jazz Festival 2003 ", Moscow
  • " Jazz in Hermitage 2003 ", Moscow (to Roman is given the honourable right of opening of festival ). Festival headliners: Randy Brecker, Dave Kikoski, Bill Evans, Lew Tabackin, Igor Butman.
  • " Jazz province 2003 " (at participation of groups from the United States, Italy, Cuba, in twelve largest concert halls of cities Russia).
  • " World Of Guitar 2003 ", Kaluga, Russia.
  • " Russian Style 2004 ", Moscow.
  • " World Of Guitar 2004 ", Kaluga, Russia.
  • " IX festival of a jazz guitar 2004 ", Saint Petersburg.
  • " Mega Jazz Masters 2004 ", Moscow.
  • " Nida Jazz 2004 ", Nida, Lithuania.
  • " Music Fest 2004 ", Moscow.
  • " The Christmas Jazz 2004 ", Moscow, Tchajkovski Concert Hall.
  • " Rio-Havana-New York 2004 ", Moscow.
  • " Festival Jazz on Dnepr 2005 ", Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
  • " World Of Guitar 2005 ", Kaluga, Russia.
  • " Festival Nida Jazz 2005 ", Nida, Lithuania.
  • " Day of Jazz in Istanbul 2005 ", Istanbul, Turkey.
  • " Jazz in Hermitage 2005 ", Moscow.
  • " Nida Jazz 2006 ", Nida, Lithuania,
  • " Bazzday 2006 ", Moscow.
  • " IX Big Smoke 2006 ", Moscow
  • " Long Arms 2006", Moscow
  • " X Big Smoke 2007 ", Moscow
  • " Jazz Carnival 2007 ", Chelyabinsk, Russia
  • " World Of Guitar 2008 ", Kaluga, Russia. Festival headliner: John McLaughlin
  • " World Of Guitar 2009", Kaluga, Russia. Feat.: Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Brower
  • « Nida Jazz » 2009. Nida, Lithuania
  • « Uzutrakio Vakarai », 2009. Trakai, Lithuania
  • « Jazz Province », 2009. Russia
  • " 9th Vladimir Martynov's Festival", 2010, Moscow, Russia
  • " Summer Jam 2010 ", Kaluga, Russia
  • " Gypsy Swing " 2010, Kaluga, Russia
  • " First String " young guitarists festival-competition 2011, Kaluga, Russia. As special guest
  • " World Of Guitar 2011 ", Kaluga, Russia. In duo with Larry Coryell.
  • "The Creation Of Peace 2011", Kazan, Russia. Headliners - John Fogerty, John Lydon. Honored Guest - the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.
  • "Crossover Jazz Festival". Moscow, Russia. 2011
  • "Veise Jazz 2011", Saransk, Russia
  • "Snow Jazz", 2011, Ekaterinburg, Russia. In duo with Larry Coryell.
  • "December angagement", 2011, Kaluga, Russia. In duo with Larry Coryell.
  • " World Of Guitar 2012 ", Kaluga, Russia. With Dominique Di Piazza and Daniel Pipi Piazzolla.
  • "Live Perm 2012", Perm, Russia. RM Trio
  • « Nida Jazz » 2012. Nida, Lithuania
  • "Snow Jazz 2013", Surgut, Russia. RM Trio
  • "Musical Kremlin", Moscow. State Kremlin Armoury.
  • "Thanks Jimi" festival 2013. Wroclaw, Poland. Special guests: Bruce Kulick (Kiss), John Corabi (Mötley Crüe), Jennifer Batten, Roman Miroshnichenko and top Polish guitar player, festival founder Leszek Cichonski.
  • "World of Guitar 2013", Kaluga, Russia. Super Band by Roman Miroshnichenko feturing: Mario Olivares, Charlie Bisharat, Dominique DiPiazza, Over Serrano.
  • "Live Perm 2013", Perm, Russia. RM Trio
  • "Ples guitar festival 2013", RM Trio. Ples, Russia.
  • "Summertime 2014", Jurmala, Latvia.
  • "Christmas-Fest 2015". International House of Music, Moscow.
  • "World of Guitar 2015", Kaluga, Russia. Guitar trio with Jose Antonio Rodriguez and Henrik Andersen.
  • "Thanks Jimi" festival 2016. Wroclaw, Poland. Special guests: Al Di Meola, Scott Henderson, Status Quo, DragonForce, Within Temptation, Roman Miroshnichenko and top Polish guitar players including festival founder Leszek Cichonski.

Collaborations

  • April 2003, 2005 - performances with a trumpet player from Holland, Saskia Laroo.
  • May 2003 - performances at the Boheme Jazz Festival with well-known Russian pianist Igor Bril. Festival headliners: John Scofield, Tanya Maria, Cesária Évora.
  • September 2003 - performances with American pianist, Milcho Leviev.
  • Since 2003 - participation in «7 Winds», accompanied by the best dancing pairs in the world competing in the World championships on the Latin American dances among professionals in State Kremlin Hall, Moscow.
  • December–January 2003-2004 - performances with known Cuban group, Sexto Sentido.
  • May 2004 performances with Al Di Meola in Kaluga and Moscow (Russia).
  • Nowember 2004 - performances with group Sexto Sentido (Cuba), with known percussionist Frank Colon.
  • June 2005 - performances with Frank Colon and with American pianist Andrew Kitaev.
  • September 2005 - participation in the show " Pierre Richard Sextet and stars of the Russian jazz.
  • September 2006 - performance with Frank Colon Band in a residence of the ambassador the USA. Moscow, Spaso House.
  • December 2006 - performance with one of the most well-known musicians of world Djivan Gasparyan, accompanied by Russian national symphonic orchestra on the State Kremlin Concert Hall stage
  • February 2007 - performances with Saskia Laroo
  • May–October 2007 - record of the joint album by Bril brothers and Roman Miroshnichenko with special guests-stars featuring: Igor Butman, Igor Bril, Saskia Laroo, Vladimir Presnyakov (sr), Sergey Mazaev, to name a few.
  • November 2007 - 1st performance of new "Russian Guitar Trio" with featuring: Roman Miroshnichenko-Ivan Smirnov-Vadim Chebanov
  • May 2008 - guitar tracks recording for "The Musical Nation Project". Feat.: Jamie Glaser, Frank Colon(USA), Clive Stevens (Great Britain), Diego Souto(Argentina), Joao Correia, Daniel Figueiredo(Brazil).
  • June 2008 - performance for the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg during his informal meetings with the leaders of the CIS countries at an economic forum.
  • October 2008 - performance as special guest in Frank Colon Band at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Musicians feat.: Cecilia Tenconi(sax), David Mit(drums), Anthony Simarozi(bass), Ben Stevers(piano)
  • October 2008 - performance with João Donato (Brasil)
  • October 2008 - performance with Lica Cecato (Brasil)
  • Summer 2009 - European tour
  • Autumn 2010 - Fall Tour Russia
  • December 2008 - sound producer of the CD album featuring russian jazz stars like Igor Butman, Georgiy Garanyan, Alexey Kuznetsov, Igor Bril, Daniel Kramer to name a few.
  • May-June-August 2009, Tour Russia and Lithuania in guitar duo with Hernan Romero October-November 2009, Tour Europe in twenty three towns.
  • 2010 - as musical producer of cd-collection project with Russian pop and jazz stars feat.
  • June 2011 - performance at Crystal Turandot Awards XX ceremony.
  • January 2012 - performance at the NAMM, Los-Angeles, USA
  • May 2012 - performance at the NAMM Russia, Roland booth, Moscow, Russia.
  • June 2012 - performance at Viktor Tsoi tribute concert. Oktyabrsky Hall, St.Petersburg, Russia
  • October 2012 - performance at the First Moscow Foreign Investment Forum.
  • November 2012 - performance at Theatre Stars Awards V annual ceremony (to Roman is given the honourable right of opening of ceremony)
  • February 2013 - performance as special guest of Leonid Agutin's show in Kremlin Palace, Moscow.
  • April 2013 - performance at ZD Awards, one of the most prestigious awards in Russian pop-music.
  • May 2013 - performance at Mikhail Glinka museum. "Night in museum" action.
  • July 2013 - guitar track recording for the songs of the host cities of FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014. Produced by Daniel Figueiredo.
  • July 2013 - peformance at finance ministries G20 meeting. Pashkov House, Moscow, Russia.
  • September 2013 - performance at The 18th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors (the IAP). Congress Center of the World Trade Center, Moscow.
  • Autumn 2014 - fall tour Russia
  • May 2015 - The Opera War&Peace by Larry Coryell featuring "The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra", Roman Miroshnichenko's jazz trio, Slovenian Academy of music Ljubljana vocal band and Serbian classical guitarist Nenad Stefanovich.
  • January 2016 - performance at the NAMM Acoustic Sheraton Stage, Los-Angeles, USA.

Bibliography

  • "Eleventh". The novel of Russian writer Dmitry Miropolsky. There are mentioned problems of a modern society and show business. A number of stories of the protagonist stated in the book, are based on the real events which have occurred during the different periods of a creative life of Roman Miroshnichenko. Publisher "Napisano Perom", 2012. ISBN 978-5-905636-02-8

Press

...Roman Miroshnichenko plays music which is referred to as "fusion". However, this term by no means uncovers all the magic palette of Roman's mastery. As a wise alchemist he is doing miracles mixing rhythms and consonances which appear incompatible. And it results in organic combination of jazz and blues, Latin-American rhythms an Afro-Cuban pulsations, energy of funk and flamenko expressiveness...

Moscow Nights, May/June 2003

"...Roman is a phenomenal acoustic guitarist. His style is reminiscent of the great Al Dimeola, but of course Roman puts his own and highly individual touch and stamp on the guitar. His ‘Temptation’ CD is a testament to his brilliance. It’s a tour de force!..."

www.acousticguitarworkshop.com, April 2010

...Armenian dudukist Gjivan Gasparyan, living in California, has arrived for one day to Moscow that in the State Kremlin palace to give a concert with the Russian national orchestra, man's choir, a soprano Julia Korpacheva and guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko...

NEWSPAPER KOMMERSANT № 228 (№ 3559) from 06.12.2006

...known guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko manage to balance their own virtuoso prides and taste to harmonious presenting the material of Temptation CD. As result - rare on quality release highestly evaluated by Al Di Meola and awarded Independent Music Awards...

"Izvestiya" newspaper, 15 March 2010

...Roman Miroshnichenko's new solo album leaves the sensation to even tempers and harmonies, which not often manages to reach even leaders of this genre. However, territorial restriction Roman already overcomed, having obtained concrete success in Russia and USA: became the laureate of prestigious alternative Independent Music Awards, fell into encyclopedia The Great Jazz Guitarists, has met approval from such authority, as American guitarist Al Di Meola and Russian composer Vladimir Martynov...

Smena magazine, #1746, April 2010

...in down town Moscow last week, young guitar virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko was busy doing miracles. His fingers were flying at the speed of sound, and the sound he created was dazzling. No wonder one of the world's guitar gurus, Al Di Meola, who toured Moscow, was impressed enough to join Roman on stage ant to anoint him "brilliant"...

Salt Lake Tribune, USA, August , 2003

...Do not consider me the ultrapatriot, but I should note and our guys, participants of festival "Jazz in Hermitage 2003" First, our Russian Al Di Meola - Roman Miroshnichenko...

«The New Times» №34, 24th August, 2003

...Roman Miroshnichenko Project was a headliner on the VIII International Festival "Guitar World 2005"...

http://gazeta.kaluga.ru

...There are a lot of personalities who are famous in the filed of jazz guitar. Some of the significant jazz guitarists are Duck Baker who was a well renowned acoustic jazz guitarist, George Benson who is known as one of the first jazz guitarist, Charlie Byrd who was the person who played jazz on a nylon string guitar, Ted Greene who is a solo jazz guitarist without any band backing him, Lage Lund who is the winner of 2006 Thelonious Monk competitions, Roman Miroshnichenko who is a Russian jazz guitarist, John McLaughlin who is was a famous Jazz-rock fusion pioneer in the 1970s, Pat Metheny who is a Missouri based guitarist and who leads his own band, Les Paul who is a Grammy winner as jazz guitarist, Howard Roberts who is guitarist who plays it in a funky style, Benjamin Rodefer who is the youngest guitarist known today, Kurt Rosenwinkel known to be the best new voice in jazz guitar play etc. Other players include Stanley Jordan, Barney Kessel, Allan Holdsworth, Jim Hall and many more...

http://www.dreamsofanartist.com/jazz-guitar/

...it was great luck that guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko, a young man with a "drive of electrical power station", was involved in "Bril+5" project. His tornado-like solos which ideally combined passion, brilliant technics and creative thinking were greeted by the public which burst into applause whenever he stared playing...

www.etatar.ru , news, 27.11.2003

References

""...Roman is a magnificent guitarist and 'the real soldier' who has perfect feeling of my music along with phenomenal technique...""

Steve Vai

"...I am flattered when Roman uses his ideas with my influence..."

Al Di Meola

"The "new" form smacks of freshness and vigor and Roman's more-than-impressive technique helps his lines soar above the complicated rhythms and sophisticated chords. It is a wondrous aspect of the modern guitar evolution that a young Ukranian could faithfully embrace the Spanish/Gypsy culture with such accuracy "

Larry Coryell

"Roman, as far as I’m concerned, is the premier Russian guitarist of this decade and I have a wonderful time performing with him every time!"

Frank Colon

"...You're a Great guitarist...!"

Saskia Laroo

"...It's a great pleasure to listen you...!"

John Scofield

"You're the number one in Russia!"

Al Di Meola

"...You're a great player...!"

Gumbi Ortiz (Al Di Meola band percussionist)

"...Beautiful music and excelent guitar player...!!!"

Daniel Piazzolla