Background
Alperin was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine and grew up in Moldavia, where he was classically trained.
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Mikhail Alperin
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Career
In 1980, he formed one of the first Moldavian jazz ensembles. He moved to Moscow in the 1980s and founded the Moscow Art Trio with Arkady Shilkloper and folk singer Sergey Nikolaevich Starostin. He has also worked with Huun Huur Tu.
Since 1993 he has lived in Oslo, Norway.
He is professor of music at the Norwegian Academy of Music and as so he has supervised pianist Helge Lien and Morten Qvenild among others He has released several works on ECM Records.
