Meet Our Owner

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Andrei Panasevich raised in a family of a military musician. At the age of four he was accepted into a music school for musically gifted children, where he began taking piano lessons. Andrei started learning to play the trombone when he was 13 years old. By the age of 14, Andrei was playing the trombone in a brass band and played the piano in a big-band orchestra. At the age of 16, Andrei was accepted into a Music College in Brest, Belarus. He successfully graduated in 1990 as a piano teacher, trombone teacher and as a concert performer. During his time in college Andrei put together a jazz band with his fellow students and led the band for four years. After graduating college, Andrei quickly rose to become the lead trombone in the presidential orchestra of Belarus in the capital city Minsk. At the same time Andrei was regularly performing as part of a stage band in an Opera House in the same city. In the year 1992, Andrei performed in a symphony orchestra as lead trombone and head of the brass section in the orchestra, in a Theatre of Music and Drama in Brest. At the same time in 1994, he was accepted into the University of Minsk for symphony conducting on a long distance study basis and successfully graduated in 1999.

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In 2002, Andrei immigrated to Canada and played in several jazz bands such as “Orfei” and “Big City Big-Band”. In 2005, he started working in the Bronte College of Canada, located in Mississauga as the music teacher as well as head of the school jazz band. Andrei is continuing his music career as a concert performer as well as a teacher of piano, brass instruments, music theory and history. He works well with children and adults alike, and his students achieve great success in their studies; completing their RCM examinations and performing in concerts.

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Language: English, Russian, Belarus, Ukrainian.