In 2010, singer Yuliana Rogacheva won the vocal competition of the largest European Jazz Festival Montreux Jazz Festival.She is 22 years. Yuliana is a graduate of the Moscow College of pop and jazz and art of the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. It is a well-known singer of the "Akademik Band" by Anatoly Kroll. She has had an internship in the U.S. for several times, taught by Dina DeRouz at Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University in California and a singer Catch Cartwright in New York. In her piggy bank there are an Award for contribution to the art of "Triumph" and the patronage of Anatoly Kroll, who became the "godfather" of jazz for Larisa Dolina in due time.
Impeccable vocals, rich timbre palette, natural and lively performance captivated all lovers of jazz. This time, Yuliana is going to perform with a pianist Alexei Chernakov, whose performance at the festival "Jazz Province" in 2006 became one of the key moments of the event.
Alexei Chernakov is a pianist and composer. He graduated from the Music College of pop-jazz art and the Russian Academy of Music (classes by Igor Brill). A winner of "Triumph" Youth Award (2006) and of the 1st Moscow International Competition for jazz pianists. At the festival in 2006, Alexei Chernakov performed works from his CD "Trilogy. Part I ». « Alexei has the necessary technical means for performing his own music. He handles his instrument perfectly, he knows how to work with the musical form, in practice, applying the compositional technique of European descent, he has a purely jazz style. The most important thing in Chernakov’s music is following to a certain inner voice, speaking about the value categories, which require and polystylistics, and combining deep enough compositional approach to improvisation thinking. "(" Jazz.ru ")