Vlady Bystrov

The unashamedly Romantic and Consummate Artist is a Woodwind Player and Experienced Educator, Composer and Innovator. All with an intended deep sincerity, conviction, energy and a passionate humanity. He always strives for having "a message" as an Artist. He and his instruments "are one". He is fundamentally a composer and creator of concepts who utilizes his role as- some proclaim- Premier Musician, to express the final musical conclusion. His horns, self-founded live electronic setup with effects, pedals, loop station, computer and other variety of instruments (wooden flutes, duduk, ocarinas, keyboards, etc.) are the vehicles of expressing his compositional and conceptual ideas he feels free to use for "whatever works and music calls for" to serve the purpose of the concept, music and "message". Musically advanced, knowledgeable and technically proficient enough to be complex, ultimately, his compositions and playing is deftly and cleverly simple and unadorned. He has striven for "the art of simplicity and understatement". What can sound incredibly simple, to be possibly dismissed by some, can actually be quite profound, very difficult and have more depth of content than noticed at first listening.