Igor Osypov is a Ukrainian guitarist currently residing in Berlin where he attends the Jazz Institute Berlin and studies with worldrenowned guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Shortly after arriving in Berlin, he founded his Quintet, featuring some of his favoritemusicians from all over Europe and the USA. Elias Stemeseder (Austria) piano, Martin Buhl Staunstrup (Denmark) bass, JesusVega (USA) drums, Kuba Gudz (Poland) drums. Since it's inception, the Quintet has performed at festivals all around Europeincluding the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in Denmark, Burghausen Jazz Woche and HFM Jazz Preis in Germany, Jazz nadOdra in Poland and Jazz a Montauban in France. The band focuses on playing original compositions that not only drawinspiration from the Jazz idiom, but other genres such as Classical and Rock. In the summer of 2014, Igor Osypov recorded his debut CD with American saxophonist Logan Richardson. Richardson is a member of the NEXT Collective (NYC). He has appeared on many recordingas a sideman as well as many under his own name and his band "Shift," the latest which features jazz great Pat Metheny onguitar.