Honored Artist of Russia.
Leonid Vintskevich is the permanent art-director and chief organizer of the International Festival "Jazz Province". Man who realizes a unique idea of "musical itinerary" and has presented the festival for many years. A superb pianist, equally organic working both internationally and in your own projects, sensitively related to jazz classics and new trends in contemporary improvised music. It was through his "personal view" and his own intuition, the festival every year pleases fans of jazz music with its diverse and interesting programs. Leonid Vintskevich is one of the original jazz composers, focused on the European improvised music and classical music of the XX century. Virtuosity and inventiveness of a pianist, a non-standard "explosive" way of thinking, a powerful play, emotion, Russian-rooting giant swing got the highest rating of listeners and critics. After the speeches in the U.S. magazine «Down Beat» called these experiments "... beautiful, broad-minded Russian avant-garde, where Errol Garner does not contradict the Cecil Taylor ..." Participates in the most famous jazz festivals in Europe, Russia, America, Scandinavia, CIS