Ekaterina Chernousova

Ekaterina Chernousova is a Russian vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger. She was born on 6 April 1971 in Moscow. She is the founder and leader of the jazz-fusion group Rooms.

As a school student, she was a soloist of the children’s choir of the Konstantin Igumnov music school in Moscow. In 1995 she graduated with honors from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with degrees in piano and music history. She also studied vocal performance at GITIS with I. Kozhinov and later taught vocals there for several years.

Chernousova participated in the New Names festival and in the contemporary music festival Moscow Autumn. From 1996 to 2001 she worked as a concertmaster at the Kremlin Ballet theater, taking part in productions of Romeo and Juliet and Ivan the Terrible. At the same time she also worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Nedelya, Moskovskaya Pravda, and Moskovsky Komsomolets, writing about musical events.

Beginning in 1997, together with her teacher Daniil Kramer, she performed jazz improvisations and concerts in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Central House of Journalists, and at jazz festivals. Since 2003 she has been an artist of the Presidential Orchestra of Russia, participating in concerts and recordings with Igor Butman, Iosif Kobzon, Luciano Pavarotti, Larisa Dolina, and Lev Leshchenko. In February 2006 she studied improvisation in the United States, where she played piano and sang.

From 2007 she began presenting vocal concerts accompanied by symphony orchestras, sympho-jazz orchestras, and big bands. In 2009 she became a member of the Union of Moscow Composers. She regularly performs in clubs with Russian jazz musicians, and her concerts have taken place in various countries. Since 2004 she has repeatedly appeared at the Moscow Autumn festival, in its jazz section, as a soloist and pianist, and has also taken part in various ethno-jazz festivals as a pianist and vocalist.

In 2003 Chernousova became the leader of the jazz-fusion group Rooms. With the group she recorded albums of her own music and arrangements of folk music, classical music, and jazz. The group’s releases mentioned in the article include Im Telech (2004), arrangements of Jewish folk and popular melodies in modern jazz forms; Feelin’ Russia (2007), featuring original compositions and authorial treatments of folk themes; Spring Jazz Round Dances (2009), with jazz standards, original works, folk-theme arrangements, and fantasies on themes by Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev; Russian Mood (2020), with original works and fantasies on Russian classical themes; and It’s Me (2021), with original compositions, jazz-standard arrangements, folk themes, and fantasies on classics including Rimsky-Korsakov and Verdi.

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