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Balalaika virtuoso Lev Zabeginsky from New York Cityrussian folk | russian music | balalaika | russian entertainment database | contact/book
Lev Zabeginsky (New York City) - composer, arranger, virtuoso balalaika and domra player, as well as a solid jazzman (playing both double bass and bass guitar) - was born in Moscow, Russia. Lev Zebeginsky started to play Russian folk music at the age of six. In 1952 he had played with The Youth Folk Quartet in Kremlin at the Stalin's birthday concert... He graduated from the St.Petersburg Conservatory in 1970 with master degree in composition.
As a bass player of Roman Kunsman's "Platina" he made an impressive appearence at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1974.
He also had made several USA-CANADA tours with the Russian-Gypsy superstars such as Alyosha Dimitrievich of Paris and B.Rubashkin of Vienna among others. ![]() Lev Zabeginsky's CD cover "Live in St.Petersburg". Concert at Windsor Terrace Public Library 160 East 5th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11218 on Monday May 12, 2008.
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Lev Zabeginsky photo by Dalia Bagdonaite. January 2008

Lev Zabeginsky, Zhenya Shevchenko, Alexander Menshikov during ensemble Barynya concert in New York City in January 2008.
Photo by Dalia Bagdonaite. January 2008
Dalia Bagdonaite photo. January 2008
Dalia Bagdonaite photo. January 2008
Dalia Bagdonaite photo. January 2008
Dalia Bagdonaite photo. January 2008
with Sergey Ryabtsev (violin), Alex Siniavski (Gypsy guitar) and Gennady Gutkin
View all photos or watch videos from ensemble Barynya performance with Zhenya Shevchenko in January 2008 in New York City.

Lev Zabeginsky (c-bass), Alyosha Dimitrievich (guitar)
Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.

Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.

Lev Zabeginsky (c-bass), Alyosha Dimitrievich (guitar)
Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.

Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.
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