Background
Igor Khoroshev was born in Moscow, Russia.
Igor Khoroshev was born in Moscow, Russia.
Khoroshev appeared on their studio albums Open Your Eyes and The Ladder. Igor supported those albums on their tours. He showed his own special addition to the song "Roundabout" by playing a cowbell while doing the keyboards.
He also plays on the live album / Digital Video Disc House of Yes: Live from House of Blues.
He took piano lessons from age four and later learned other instruments including the trombone, French horn, guitar and drums. He obtained a diploma in music
In the early 1990s, he moved to the United States of America, settling in Boston, where he worked with Benjamin Orr of The Cars among others Khoroshev met Carl Jacobson of the Cakewalk software house.
Jacobson employed Khoroshev, who composed music for Cakewalk"s Pro Audio 9, and he also introduced Khoroshev to Yes"s Jon Anderson.
Khoroshev released a solo album Piano Works in 1999. He appeared on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album Encores, Legends and Paradox. In March 2000, he and Jon Anderson worked on an album called True You, True Maine.
The album was estimated to be released in November of that year, with a tour as a duet in early 2001.
This did not, however, come to fruition and the collaboration project was shelved. Igor left Yes after their Masterworks Tour, following an incident involving two female security guards on that tour, Khoroshev was charged with assault and battery and sexual battery, although the matter was later settled out of court.
Since leaving Yes, Khoroshev worked on film soundtracks, including "Good Night Valentino" and "The Pearl", and in a production role, often working with Mike Plotnikoff (eg With Shivering Hearts We Wait, 2011).