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Kirill Yakovlev
‘’Everything new is well forgotten old.’’
About Me
Kirill Yakovlev is a Russian-born guitar player, composer and music teacher based in Prague, Czech Republic, specializing in
jazz-fusion, world, and ambient music.
Kirill was born in Novosibirsk, Russia in 1988.
In 2005, after moving with family to the Czech Republic, he started taking guitar classes with Josef Štepánek, a well-
known Czech guitarist cooperating with top Czech pop, jazz, and folk musicians.
In 2009 Kirill was accepted to the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague where he successfully graduated in 2012.
Leading guitarists of the Czech and European jazz scene were among his teachers - Libor Šmoldas and David Dorůžka.
In 2013 Kirill formed his original project CIRILIC, together with the double-bass player Taras Voloschuk and the
saxophonist Cyrille Oswald.
The band’s debut album ‘’A Golden Age’’ was recorded in Holland, together with Yonga Sun on drums, and released in
2014. It was produced by Wiboud Burkens. The album contains the music of 19th-century Russian romantic composers
M. Mussorgsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov and M. Glinka. The album also includes Kirill’s original compositions.
In 2017 Kirill’s band CIRILIC released its second album ‘’Memories of Heaven’’ which contains only Kirill’s original
compositions. The album offers 11 tracks of instrumental jazz fusion, world music, and also hints of progressive and
ambient or eastern European Folk music. The recording features Taras Volos, Cyrille Oswald, Miloš Klápště, Dušan Černák,
Daniel Šoltis, Oskar Török, Patrick Sas, Yonga Sun and Karel Holas.
In 2018 Kirill and pianist Daniel Bulatkin (CZ/RU) formed an organ trio B/Y ORGANISM together with drummer Utsi
Zimring (ISR). After a few years of cooperating together, they released their debut album ''The New Beginning'' under
Austrian label Alessa Records in July 2020.