Biography
Rada Pokarzhevska (rada-p) was born in Mariupol in 1981, 2 of September.
In the childhood she lived in Tixi (the Lena-river, behind the Earth Polar Circle).
There were piano & composition studies at the music school.
1991 – returning to the native town.
1993 – school of extraordinary children that was attached to Mariupol high school of music.
1998 – studies in saxophone class at Mariupol high school of music.
2001-2006 - Donetsk State Academy of Music, graduated with excellent marked diploma.
2003 – 1 prize at Donetsk Festival of Jazz Music for Youth //over-Ukraine (Ukraine-wide) music competitions//
2004 – 2 prize at Donetsk Festival of Jazz Music for Youth, the special diploma “for creative achievements”.
- 2 prize at the International Jazz Festival «DoDj» & the competition «DoDj-junior 2004» (within “BC”)
2005 – 1 prize at Donetsk Festival of Jazz Music for Youth (within “BC”)
- 2 prize at the International Jazz Festival «DoDj» & the competition «DoDj-junior 2004» (within “B-complete”) & special prize “for original arrangements”
2006 – 1 prize at DoDj-junior within RadaSt`. She also won the special diploma – “for female jazz vocal” & “arrangements” (in half with the bassman).
Since 2003 – the chief (& the creator) of the vocal ensemble “BC” (“B-complete”)
2008, Feb - after RadaSt` took participation at the Festival of Improvisational Music «MuzEnergo» (Dubna, Moscow region, Russian Federation), Rada stayed in Moscow - and there was also an «upgrading» of the structures of RadaSt` as well as that of vocal ensemble BC.
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