Ilia Belorukov (b.1987) is a saxophonist from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the direction of free improvisation, free-jazz, noise and electroacoustic music. He’s a member of different projects such as Wozzeck, Wooden Plants, Dots & Lines, Punktieren and others. Also he collaborates with musicians who work in other genres (from hardcore to academic contemporary music); with dancers and painters; with theater. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone.
Ilia had played with such musicians as David Stackenäs (Sweden), Ignaz Schick (Germany), Darius Čiuta, Arturas Bumšteinas, Arkadij Gotesman (Lithuania), Topias Tiheäsalo, Janne Tuomi (Finland), Edyta Fil, Rafal Mazur (Poland), Thomas Buckner, Eyal Maoz, Susie Allen (USA), Yuriy Yaremchuk, Alla Zagaykevich (Ukraine), Vladislav Makarov, Roman Stolyar, Alexei Borisov, Vyacheslav Gayvoronskiy, Sergey Letov, Alexey Lapin (Russia) and many others.
He participated in various festivals: JazzRu 10th Anniversary (Moscow); SKIF-12 (Saint-Petersburg) ; Aposition-4 (Saint-Petersburg); Electro+Mechanica II (Saint-Petersburg); Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest); GES21 10th Anniversary (Saint-Petersburg); Noise & Fury 8 (Moscow); Gogolfest 2009 (Kiev, Ukraine); Body Navigation V (Saint-Petersburg); Electromechanica III (Saint-Petersburg); Jauna Muzika 2010 (Vilnius & Klaipeda); Angelica 2010 (Bologna); SKIF-14 (Saint-Petersburg); Baba Fest (Rome) etc.
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