Mazaika

" for all their larking around, when the music demands gravitas and expression, it's there in spades" **** The Herald

MAZAIKA is: The incredible Igor Outkine on Vocals, Russian Button Accordion and his genre defying, mind blowing Midi Accordion, and versatile and virtuosic violinist Sarah Harrison, who also brings her vocal talents to the proceedings and plays a mean Russian Domra! 

 Known for their dazzling virtuosity, intoxicating passion and spontaneous theatricality and humour Mazaika have spent two decades enchanting audiences from the Cadogan Hall to the Crazy Coqs, Glastonbury to The Green Note and far beyond. The duo ignites the stage with Gypsy fire and Tango passion, operatic melodrama and classical virtuosity plus some hot club and hillbilly mayhem! Guaranteed to transport you from the fairytale Russian Steppe to the flickering Romany campfire: from the elegance of the concert hall to the glitter of the Moulin Rouge.

 Audiences can expect a unique, humorous and uplifting take on Russian Folk and Gypsy, Classical, Opera, Tango, Gypsy Jazz, Latin, Italian, French Chanson, Balkan Beat, Klezmer and evocative original material inspired by all of the above. 

(Igor Outkine has) ''a lovely tenor voice…by the end of the evening the Purcell Room had become a Tavern" Independent

"Wistful accordion...the world’s first head banging accordionist" The Guardian