co-founder of the non-profit organization called "JazzAid"
promoter of jazz music
organizer of events related to jazz culture
I have been making music since childhood. I played my first concert at the age of 17 for the Science Film Festival at Moscow State University. Since 2003 I have been creating electronic music. In 2007, I created my first musical group playing rock and roll and blues. In 2008, I got into the world of jazz dances, and in 2012 we created a jazz band, which over the years of its existence has performed in Ukraine, Belarus, Israel, Lithuania and Poland.
I created several more musical projects, including my solo project YANA FM and a creative project called MO / MB (Musica Omnia / Музыка Всё), which was invented by me and my friend. Since 2018, I have been doing dance and music events and competitions for jazz dancers, for example, the Russian Jazz Dance Championship. In 2019 we created the non-profit organization called JazzAid which helps people to get acquainted with jazz culture through music and dance and supports talented jazz people. Also in 2019, we received a grant and held the Moscow Jazz Summer festival.
I took part in the big band of the State Musical College of Variety and Jazz Art. In 2019, we took third place in the "Piano in Jazz" competition and opened a gala concert at the Gnessin School.
At the beginning of 2020, I gave an interview at the Public Chamber, where my friend and colleague and I talked about JazzAid.
In 2021 I published the book "Do the Superheroes Feel Lonely?".
Before the pandemic, I finished work on the script and arrangements for my musical "Rhythm Changes", but the pandemic suspended active work on it, and then in 2022 the war began..
In 2016 I took part in the TV show "Dancing with the Stars" as a choreographer, and Nelly and Evgeny won that round.
They performed charleston to the "Crazy In Love" remix
Nelly Uvarova & Evgeny Rayev - Charleston
Musica Omnia / Музыка Всё
Part of our show dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock in the famous Moscow rock club "16 Tons"
in 2021 i published a book "do the superheroes feel lonely?"
This book is LIKE a Facebook post for a Spotify playlist. We wander along the path of life, and unexpected encounters bring new colors to our lives and new mysteries that are difficult to unravel. This superhero story is a rendering of MEUTE's "You & Me", with the final scenes written to Duke Ellington ("Fontainebleau Forest") and Miles Davis ("In a Silent Way"). The story tells us that even if we are too different for this world, there is someone who will help us to be ourselves