Libertango in Berlin Philharmonic
AYDA GAYNULLIN
Accordinist and composer
https://aydar.net/en/about
I grew up in an ordinary family.
My parents are ordinary workers, common modest people.
I am very grateful to them for believing in me and buying me the very expensive button accordion (bayan) that cost like Volga car! They worked in five jobs in order to buy this instrument, and borrowed money from their relatives and friends, taking obligation to pay off within few years. Weight of my button accordion (bayan) is one pud exactly, mean 16 kilos. We used to live in the small apartment in modular house, in the north of Moscow, and every day after school I took music classes. Needless to say, we didn't have a car. So, my farther always had to carry this heavy instrument. If it were not for my parents, my brother and their faith in me, I would never have become who I am.
Artyom Dervoed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artyom_Dervoed
a classical guitarist from Russia.
Universe Guitare (France) has famously dubbed Artyom Dervoed the “Tsar of the guitar”.
La Campanella | Niccolò Paganini | Artyom Dervoed
Russian famous accordion player earned more playing in metro than American famous violinist! (БАЯН!)
In an experiment initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; of the 1,097 people who passed by, seven stopped to listen to him, and one recognized him. For his nearly 45-minute performance, Bell collected $32.17 from 27 passersby (excluding $20 from the one who recognized him). Three days earlier, he earned considerably more playing the same repertoire at a concert. Weingarten won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his article on the experiment. The Washington Post posted the video on YouTube and a feature-length documentary, Find Your Way: A Busker's Documentary, chronicled Bell's experience. A somewhat inaccurate retelling of the story went viral.