Born in Kiev, Ukraine, saxophonist ARKADY [hear pronunciation ] resides in New York City, where he keeps a busy schedule -- performing, recording, producing, composing, arranging, and teaching.

Arkady's music education began in Ukraine, Glier Music College, and continued in the USA, at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received a Master of Music Degree, on a full scholarship, and won The Andrew Goodman Prize for Best Clarinetist. He was also a member of the New York Youth Symphony.

Arkady's career covers many diverse areas of the New York City music scene, plus touring: USA, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico, Canada, England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Ukraine, Israel, Japan, etc.

As a multi-woodwind specialist, Arkady has performed in a wide variety of settings:

With symphony, opera and ballet orchestras: The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Concordia, New York  Pops,  Pilobolus Dance Company (with Klezmatics at the Joyce Theater); under the batons of Gunther Schuller, Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop; on such prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center

On Broadway and TV: Chicago, 42nd Street, Guys and Dolls, Big River, Marilyn: An American Fable; "Late Show" with David Letterman on CBS, on MTV with "Weird Al" Yankovic, Andrew Taylor [Duran Duran]

In concerts with: Tony Bennett, Jon Bon Jovi, Garth Brooks [Official Site], Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Trisha Yearwood, Jill Scott, Monica Mancini, The Irish Tenors, Tommy Tune, Raphael, Joan Rivers, Lesley Gore, Mary Wilson, The Dells, The Temptations, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Drew Barrymore

Arkady has played with Jazz greats including: Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Ronnie Cuber, Tom Scott, George Young, Frank Wess, Dick Oatts, Bob Sheppard, Bill Evans; John Patitucci, Vinnie Colaiuta, Louis Hayes, Dick Weller; Valerie Ponomarev, Lew Soloff, Brian Lynch; Ted Rosenthal, Mike Holober, Uri Caine; The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Charles Mingus Big Band, The Ed Palermo Big Band, Dave Grusin -- West Side Story All Star Band (Carnegie Hall, with Jon Faddis, featuring Gloria Estefan and Jonathan Butler); Joel Rosenblatt, Jay Azzolina, Mike Miller, Mocean Worker, Oz Noy, Mason Brothers, Janek Gwizdala

Arkady's Latin and World Music explorations include: Mario Bauzá, Sammy Figueroa, Dave Valentin, Candido, Yuri Yunakov, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Ara Dinkjian, Spiros Exaras, Gilad

About his own life, Arkady says -- "It's like a movie... Can't Make It Up... "

A charismatic performer-composer-poet, and ever a Renaissance man, Arkady is now focusing on developing his career as a solo artist. Stay tuned...

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