Russian trumpeter, producer, teacher, and TV presenter Vadim Eilenkrig was born in Moscow in 1971. He studied at the Schnittke Moscow Music College, Moscow State University of Culture and completed his postgraduate course at the Maimonides State Classical Academy where he is currently an associate professor of the Jazz department.
The musician has been performing extensively both in Russia and internationally, touring Europe, Asia, and North America and collaborating with renowned jazz musicians from all over the world. Vadim Eilenkrig has authored five solo albums: The Shadow of Your Smile (2010), Eilenkrig (2012), 1000/1 (2016, limited edition), Point of View (2017), and Newborn (2020). The Eilenkrig album ranked fourth in the Russian iTunes (Top 200 Jazz Chart) and first in Armenia (Top 200 Tracks Armenia All Genre Chart). <<cut>>
Since 2016, Vadim Eilenkrig has been the Artistic Director of the Uzgeresh Zhile (meaning The Wind of Change) Tatar Song Festival in Kazan (in January 2020, the festival participants gave a concert in the New York Carnegie Hall). Since 2019, he has also been the Artistic Director of Jazz Summer with Eilenkrieg, a Moscow-based festival of contemporary jazz orchestras.
Vadim Eilenkrig hosted The Big Jazz show on Kultura TV channel (2013) and co-hosted Dancing with the Stars on Rossiya-1 TV channel where he also led the orchestra (2016). Since 2018 he has also hosted 37, Shabolovka Club music show on Kultura TV.
The musician is a regular jury member of the Nutcracker International Television Contest for Young Musicians. In 2016, he began running regular exclusive programmes with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia at the Vladimir Spivakov Invites festival in Russian regions. In October 2019, at the festival marking maestro’s milestone birthday in Moscow, he premiered the Symphonic Kind of Blue programme commemorating the 60th anniversary of the legendary Miles Davis’s album.
Vadim Eilenkrig was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2016. He won the Musician of the Year award from Radio Jazz 89.1 in 2018.