Celebrated dancers and choreographers Donald Sales & Cherice Barton in a new duet created for them by world-renowned choreographer Aszure Barton(yes, Cherice and Aszure are sisters!) titled Chapter Three: Collaboration, with an original score by Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin.

Celebrated dancers and choreographers Donald Sales & Cherice Barton in a new duet created for them by world-renowned choreographer Aszure Barton(yes, Cherice and Aszure are sisters!) titled Chapter Three: Collaboration, with an original score by Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin.

Ljova makes a brief appearance with the Fernando Otero Quintet at the Music of Now Marathon. Many great artists also taking part, all for one low price of $15! see details at http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6944-the-music-of-now-marathon

Festival begins at 4pm, Fernando Otero Quintet onstage around 6:45pm.

Alexander Zhurbin is Russia's pre-eminent composer of musical theatre, film soundtracks and popular song. His career launched overnight in 1975, when he wrote Russia's first rock-opera, "Orpheus & Eurydice", which went on to be the longest continuously running theatrical production in Russia, after 2500 performances.  Since that day, he has written scores to over 60 films, 30 musicals, symphonies, ballets and concert works.  Thanks to his wide-ranging output and activity, he has often been compared to the "Russian Leonard Bernstein".

Together with his wife, Irena Ginzburg-Zhurbin, they have been co-writing songs and performing internationally for over 30 years -- Alexander at the piano, and Irena singing.

For this extremely rare New York appearance, Alexander and Irena will be joined on stage by their son Lev Zhurbin (better known in New York as Ljova, leader of his ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband), their daughter-in-law Inna Barmash, as well as special guests.

Lincoln Center & Target Free Thursdays present the record release performance of "Lost in Kino", the third album by Ljova, featuring performances by Romashka, Tall Tall Trees, and the PUBLIQuartet, special guests Johnny Gandelsman, Ingrid Gordon and Sarah Natochenny. Free admission, subject to capacity - arrive early!

For more on "Lost in Kino", to watch videos, preview the music and your copy, visit http://www.Ljova.com/lostinkino

See you there!

Ljova and the Kontraband appearing at the Dwecklectic series at the Brooklyn Public Library. Free show - join us!

The Brooklyn Philharmonic launches its new season with a performance of music to classic Russian animation, including music by Shostakovich, as well as Ljova's arrangements of music by Moisei Weinberg (his score to "Winnie the Pooh"), Vyacheslav Artyomov's "Boy as a Boy", and Ljova's original score to Lev Polyakov's film "Only Love".

You don't want to miss this!

a concert featuring the bandoneon maestro Juan Pablo Jofre Romarion, with Nick Danielson (violin) Ljova (viola), Pablo Aslan (bass) and Alex Brown (piano)

the Kontraband returns to its Brooklyn home, the intimate club Barbes, after a summer hiatus.