With over 20 years of professional experience, Taras Kuznetsov is a pianist, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has performed successfully in various venues across Ukraine and Europe, such as the Varna Jazz Festival and the Odessa International Music Festival, among many others. Taras can easily foresee what's best for your music, bringing all the possible textures and colours with his serious chops, almost instantly feeling what the song requires. Which is why musicians such as Frode Bartsh, Karl Frierson (DePhazz) or Andrew Prozorov very often chose him as their preferred session musician. Taras is also a producer for various Ukrainian aspiring artists like Jane Igraeva, HEADSHOT or Ana Pshokina. In 2017, his music with Ana Pshokina won the "Performance Jazz" and "Jazz Kolo" music competitions held in Ukraine.

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Taras is very strong in Jazz, Soul and Latin music, but he prefers not to favor any particular style. He plays what the music needs, rather than what is formally required stylistically. After all, musical evolution, he believes, has been achieved by stepping outside each style's borders and by combining different genres. He plays piano since he was 4, so there is not a thing he doesn't know about this instrument. Taras specializes in overall keyboards instrumentation and arrangement - he can record almost any instrument via his massive library of virtual instruments and uses the Nord Stage as his go to instrument. Taras is comfortable working from audio samples and slightly less comfortable with charts.