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electric Cost: $14.98 (USD) SVOY comes from one of the last generations of the former Soviet Union. Born in the Russian Far East, he began taking classical and jazz piano lessons as a child. As a teenager, he moved to Moscow seeking to join a wider music community, and ended up studying with top jazz piano and composition pros in the country. A few years later, he got a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where graduated in 2004. While in Boston, Svoy explored songwriting and production. In 2002, he won the BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship film music competition and spent six weeks studying with the renowned TV composer Mike Post (writer of such TV themes as NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and Law and Order) at his studio in Los Angeles. In 2004 Svoy's song Food-Mud won the 3d place at BMIs John Lennon songwriting competition in New York. The judges included legendary record producer Russ Titelman (George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, James Taylor), and record producer and hit Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn. Thousands of applicants participated in the competition that year. In June 2004 the award was received from BMI and Yoko Ono. |