Alexander Vinitsky is a guitarist, composer, and professor who was trained in Russia at Gresnin's Academy. He writes guitar music, conducts masterclasses on “Classical Guitar in Jazz,” and gives concerts. He has toured throughout Israel, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, and Hungary. Alexander's concert repertoire includes his own compositions, which display a variety of styles, as well as arrangements of jazz standards by Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, A. C. Jobim, J. Zavinul, L. Bonfa, and G. Gilberto. Vinitsky currently teaches classical guitar at Gnesin's Music College. Alexander's output includes 9 recordings and numerous books of arrangements and original pieces.
Vinitsky is a musician of a new trend, who has managed to unite in his work Brazilian music with modern azz harmony, that means in itself a new world in guitar music art. The variety of colors, polyrhythmic, continued pulse and harmonic richness, are characteristic of this remarkable musician's works.
-- Alexander Frauchy, 1991
[Vinitsky's] style is of an agreeable and tasteful suavity. His own pieces…are particularly appealing.
-- Colin Cooper, Classical Guitar magazine, December, 1993
Vinisky, a serious jazz guitarist from Moscow, has carried away the audience by his sophisticated harmonies
and strong rhythms.
-- Colin Cooper, Classical Guitar magazine, November, 1994
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