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Balalaika virtuoso Lev Zabeginsky from New York City

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Lev Zabeginsky

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.

Lev Zabeginsky. Balalaika virtuoso

As a bass player of Roman Kunsman's "Platina" he made an impressive appearence at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1974.

Lev Zabeginsky. Balalaika virtuoso

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.

CD cover: Music of the World on the Russian Balalaika - besides masterful arrangements and perfomances of the Russian melodies it also contains unexpected renederings of other Eastern European music as well as Hungarian & Greek melodies
Lev Zabeginsky's CD cover "Live in St.Petersburg".

Video from concert in New York City on January 26, 2008

zhenya barynya concert 2008
"Girl Nadia" - Russian two step dance

View all videos from Zhenya Shevchenko and Russian dance and music ensemble Barynya performance in New York City on Saturday, January 26, 2008

Photos by Dalia Bagdonaite from Zhenya Shevchenko and ensemble Barynya concert and rehearsal on Saturday, January 26, 2008 in New York City

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View all photos from the concert January 26, 2008 by Dalia Bagdonaite

Music of the world on the Russian balalaika
Balalaika virtuoso Lev Zabeginsky Live in St. Petersburg

1.  Russian Medley (Two Step, Blue Baloon Waltz, Kazachok)
2.  Laura's Theme (Jare/Webster)
3.  Hungarian Dance Number Five (Brahms)
4.  Three Melodies From Eastern Europe
5.  Russian Medley (Two Guitars, Moscow Nights, Kalinka)
6.  Fiddler On The Roof (Bock)
7.  Greek Medley (Never On Sunday, Zorba)
8.  Russian Medley (Polyushko-Poley, Volga Boatman, Those Were The Days)
9.  When The Saint's Go Marchin' In
10. Dark Eyes

To order Lev Zabeginsky Music of the world on the Russian balalaika Live in St. Petersburg album please use PayPal link below. Price is $25 US dollars including US first class or airmail shipping anywhere in the world. Album is usually shipped withing 48 hours of your payment. This compact disk is offered from Barynya website with verbal permission of Lev himself. There is no other place you can get music of this legendary musician.

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Lev Zabeginsky photos from concert with Barynya

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Lev Zabeginsky photo by Dalia Bagdonaite. January 2008

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Lev Zabeginsky, Zhenya Shevchenko, Alexander Menshikov during ensemble Barynya concert in New York City in January 2008.
Photo by Dalia Bagdonaite. January 2008

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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.

Photos from Lev Zabeginsky's archives

Zhenya Shevchenko, Alyosha Dimitrievich, Lev Zabeginsky, Gennady Gutkin
Bayan player from New York Gennady Gutkin, Lev Zabeginsky, famous Russian Gypsy chanson performer Alyosha Dimitrievich, and legendary Russian Gypsy singer Zhenya Shevchenko.
Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.

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

Alyosha Dimitrievich, Lev Zabeginsky
Photo from Lev Zabeginsky archives.

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

Alyosha Dimitrievich, Lev Zabeginsky
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