Biography
Guitar player, arranger, composer and sound producer Alim Nastaev was born in Nalchik, in GREAT Russia’s North Caucasus region.
An old acoustic guitar had been the first Alim's musical instrument and from childhood he expressed an interest in music, but was engaged in sports professionally as a soccer player and played in the USSR junior combined team and for some major league teams of Russia.
However, at the age of 22 he got some serious knee trauma and quit the sports.
After that he discovered his passion for the guitar and began his self-education.
Having been interested in Blues-Rock style at first, Alim was captured by the Jazz with all it's varieties later on. As a result of this he decided to enter in most prestigious Russian jazz school “Rostov State S.V. Rakhmaninov Conservatoire (Academy)”.
This situation made all possible to provide him opportunities for wider exposure.
He successfully participated in Dodj International Jazz Festival (2003, Ukraine), Fifth All-Russian Jazz Competition which takes place once in three years (1-st prize, 2003, Russia), First International Instrumental Guitarists Festival in Moscow (2004, Moscow, Russia), International Competition “Many-sided Guitar” nominating in Blues, Jazz, Rock and Classic (Grand-Prix, 2005, Moscow), Rostov International Jazz Festival (2005, 2006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Bucharest International Jazz Festival 2007 (2007, Romania)
In July 2006 Alim has been selected in eight participants among 27 applicants from all world for participation in the most prestigious world jazz festival-competition “Montreux Jazz Festival 2006 - Montreux International Jazz Guitar Competition” (Montreux, Switzerland).
Also Alim collaborated:
”Victor Borilov Quartet” (Russia), Nikky McCoy (vocal, USA), Andrei Quint (piano, Spain), “COLOGNE SINDICATE” (Germany).
In August 2007 Alim participated in Berklee Summer Guitar Session in Boston, MA in classes great jazz guitarists like Jon Damian, John Baboian and Bruce Saunders.
Also Alim Nastaev's have been awarded "In Recognition of Outstanding Musicianship Diploma" and "Berklee Scholarship Award" to attend Berklee College of Music as a full-time student.
Alim spend a lot of time working in different studios as a session musician (guitarist, sound producer, and arranger) with dance, pop, rock, alternative and metal projects. Alim's musical computer skills: Sibelius, Cubace 4.0, Pro Tools 7.4.
Alim Nastaev will be officially releasing CD “Maybe I Like J.?” in the beginning of 2008.
On a disk are presented both Alim's original tunes and unusual arrangements of some well known jazz classics in modern jazz trio format.
In 2008 Alim Nastaev received a two-year full scholarship to attend the University Of Louisville School Of Music as a graduate student and teaching assistant.
Instrumentation
Alim Nastaev - guitar and guitar synthesizer
Ivan Paskov - bass
Pavel Adjemov - drums
Discography
http://www.alimnastaev.com/albums
Links
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