Leléka & Maksym Berezhniuk
Biography Leléka & Maksym Berezhniuk
LELÉKA
is a young, multicultural Berlin quartet around Ukrainian singer Viktoria Leléka, whose voice defines the character and atmosphere of this band’s music. The sound world of the band, ranging from dyna-mic grooving passages to tender folk ballad tones, finds the appropriate framework in a thoroughly contemporary jazz language, which the quartet has developed into a diversified concept. LELÉKA is a successful example of a young for-mation that occupies a well-considered place within this borderline genre, which also made the band prize winners at the world music competition creole Berlin, Junger Münchner Jazzpreis as well as at the European Young Jazz Prize Burghausen 2018. In addition, LELÉKA was nominated as “Band of the Year 2022” at the German Jazz Award.
Maksym Berezhniuk
is a renowned Ukrainian flutist and collector of traditional woodwind instruments. His collection includes over 100 rare as well as well-known instruments. On Rizdo you can hear 11 of them: Sopilka, Dentsivka, Okaryna, Telynka, Panflute, Drymba (Maultrom-mel), Floyara, Duduk, Horn, Saxonet and Duda.
He is also known as a co-founder of the bands “The Doox”, “Kyiv Ethno trio” and “Ba-lamuty”, his various collaborations with Ukrainian musicians and for his sound tracks for feature films and documentaries
