Simon Nabatov

Simon Nabatov is a pianist and composer, born in Moscow in 1959. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory, emigrated with his family in 1979 and continued at the Juilliard School in New York, then settled in Cologne in 1989. His work moves between jazz, free improvisation and larger composed projects, several of them drawn from Russian literature, notably Bulgakov, Kharms and Brodsky. Nabatov's trio with Mark Helias and Tom Rainey recorded Tough Customer (Enja, 1993).