Andrei Ivanov is a jazz double-bass player, composer, and music producer. He graduated from the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute (class of Vladimir Khomenko). Then he became double-bass teacher at the Rostov State Music and Pedagogical Institute.
By combining jazz and academic playing methods, Andrei Ivanov has made the jazz double-bass, so to say, “fit for a solo career”. Together with his brother Mikhail Ivanov (piano), he performs in Russia and abroad. Their creative alliance took shape back in 1988, when the musicians became part of the jazz band named Rostov Trio. In 1989, the Trio became part of the Rostov State Philharmonic Society. Soon, they won the 1st prize at the All-Russian Competition of Young Jazz Performers in Rostov-on-Don, and also in 1989, the Grand Prix at the European Jazz Competition in Brussels. In 1990 they participated in the North Sea Jazz Festival (the Hague), then in the Montreal International Jazz Festival (1991), the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland, 1992), and the Belga Jazz Festival (Belgium, 1994). The brothers spent six years in Europe and gave about two hundred concerts; in 1997, they returned to Russia.
Andrei Ivanov has appeared with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Novaya Rossiya and Moscow Virtuosi Orchestras, and has performed with Georgy Garanian, Sergey Mazayev, Arkady Shilkloper, Chanda Rule, Arlee Leonard, Alexey Utkin, Igor Butman and David Goloschekin.
In 2015, the Ivanov brothers established and headed the Center for the Development of Ethnic Music of the Moscow Region Philharmonic Society. They are the inventors and leaders of the Crossing the Time International Festival (Pushkino, Moscow Region), as well as of the Epiphany Evenings World Music Festival (tour of Russian cities). In 2019, they participated in the Russian Cultural Mission in Venice Festival, and Ochi Chornye International Festival of Russian-Italian Culture in Montecatini Terme, where the premiere performance of Venetian Suite in blue by Mikhail Ivanov took place.
Andrei Ivanov plays in a trio with pianist Denis Matsuev and drummer Alexander Zinger.
Andrei Ivanov is a winner of the Moscow City Prize in Literature and Art (2010), and of the Russian Government Prize for Culture (2013; for the creation of SymphoJazz of the Ivanov Brothers concert program).
