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Oleg Maximov Biography
OLEG MAXIMOV IS A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN, A GUITAR PLAYER, AN ARRANGER, A MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION AND NOTATION SPECIALIST CURRENTLY BASED IN GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.
Oleg was born in 1990 in the city of Rostov-on-Don on the south of Russia. The city itself is known as the first place in Russia to have a higher educational institution that offers an academic degree in jazz music: the Rostov State Conservatory.
Coming from a musicians’ family—Oleg’s father used to study at the Conservatory as a button accordion player—initially Oleg wasn’t able to study music due to the dire economic situation in Russia during the 90s.
However, the young boy was surrounded with music and musicians from early childhood. All that could not but affect him, and he took a guitar in his hands for the first time at the age of 14. From that moment his musical formation has begun after attending to M.F.Gnessin Music School. Oleg has been mentored by Yuriy Lubchenko through the school years.
What happened next was undoubtedly predestined: Oleg had successfully graduated from secondary school, enrolled in the Don State Technical University while still practicing guitar during all his free time.
In 2011, Oleg graduated from DSTU with honors, earning his engineering degree, and simultaneously graduated from a music school as a guitar player (with honors as well).
Not having worked a single day as an engineer, Oleg decided to pursue a career in music and moved to Moscow.
Being successfully admitted to Moscow State College of Variety and Jazz Art opened a whole new world to Oleg—a world of being a professional musician.
He was mentored throughout years by the following teachers, who are famous around the Russian Jazz scene:
- Mkrtich Sudzhian – electric guitar class
- Valery Melekhin – ensemble class
- Nikolai Golovnya – electric guitar class and ensemble class
- Alexandr Sukhih – ensemble and orchestra class
- Andrei Garin – classic guitar class
While studying and after graduating college Oleg took part in numerous musical contests and had won numerous awards in guitar playing and in ensemble nominations. The list of contests includes: The Many-Faced Guitar, Guitar Virtuosos, Guitarion, Jazz Alley, Gnesin Jazz, Lanote Jazz and others.
After graduating college with honors in 2016, Oleg continued to polish musical skills by taking private lessons and attending for a couple of music clinics with the following teachers:
- Alex Sipiagin,
- Sasha Mashin,
- Igor Boiko,
- Lev Slepner
- Alternate Guitar Summit 2020: a guitar clinic with top musicians and mentors: Gilad Hekselman, Julian Lage, Joel Harrison, Nir Felder and Tim Miller
- Lanote Education clinic held on 27 of October 2019, Moscow—master classes with Gilad Hekselman, John Raymond, Colin Stranahan
- Lanote Education clinic held on 16-18 of August 2019, Moscow—master classes with Eric Alexander, Sasha Mashin, Evgeny Pobozhiy, Makar Novikov
Shortly after graduation Oleg started his professional career as a performing musician and online session guitarist, as well as an expert in digital notation in Sibelius.
To this date his credits include collaborations with the following artists:
- AirGigs.com Studio Session Musician
- Oleg Maximov Quartet
- Oleg Maximov & Aniah Alves (Netherlands) duo
- Música Em Casa Fortaleza project (Brazil, Netherlands, Russia, France and other countries)
- Radha Thomas and Oleg Maksimov duo
- B3 Johnson organ trio
- Alexandra Borzo (Peru) and Oleg Maximov duo
- SAXy Trio
- 2Smile Duo
- Pyotr Fomenko Theatre, Moscow, Russia
- Russian Army Semenovsky Orchestra, Moscow, Russia
- Anton Averkin’s Jazz Big Band
- Dmitriy Anikeev (piano) and Oleg Maksimov (guitar) duo