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"Beyond sight there is a truth...

and the sound will guide us there"

Andrew Axenov

"Beyond sight there is a truth...

and the sound will guide us there"

Andrew Axenov

"When I first saw Andrew Axenov playing live many years ago, I instantly recognized his huge potential as a composer and performer. His musical background is enormous and it makes his music really stand out. Andrew’s grooves and melodies make me wanna move and sing along, but his charisma on stage is truly the icing on the cake."

Alexandr Misko

renowned fingerstyle guitarist

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Andrew Axenov

Touring artist, composer, teacher

Andrew Axenov - guitar virtuoso and composer who pushes boundaries of acoustic guitar to create soulful instrumental music full of passionate improvisations, blasts of percussive fingerstyle techniques and beautiful melodies inspired by classical and ethnic music from all over the world.

With a spectacular live guitar sound, mesmerizing melodies, and a stage presence that commands attention, Andrew is a musician who effortlessly captivates audiences worldwide.

Andrew Axenov

Touring artist, composer and teacher

Andrew Axenov - guitar virtuoso and composer who pushes boundaries of acoustic guitar to create soulful instrumental music full of passionate improvisations, blasts of percussive fingerstyle techniques and beautiful melodies inspired by classical and ethnic music from all over the world.

With a spectacular live guitar sound, mesmerizing melodies, and a stage presence that commands attention, Andrew is a musician who effortlessly captivates audiences worldwide.

Andrew has performed on the best stages of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow, Thailand and even Australia. Shared stage with a fingerstyle guitar giants Alexandr Misko, Soenke Meinen and Gareth Pearson and takes part in fingerstyle guitar festivals around the world.

In 2022 he moved to Thailand and organized a Koh Phangan Guitar Festival there. During 2 years in Thailand he created his new live program, that is now ready to be presented to the most sophisticated audience.

In 2024 Andrew is moving to Turkey to share his music in this outstanding country and to study traditional Turkish music, which has a big influence on his art.

Apart from live performances Andrew works as composer and studio musician with 5 studio albums released including his solo album "Hidden World Fairytales" (2022), which demonstrates the full power of his composition and technical skills. One of Andrew's guitar arrangements was purchased to the tier-1 Russian movie - a rare achievement for fingerstyle guitar music.

Andrew has active social media presence with over 2.500.000 views on YouTube and rapidly growing instagram account.

Since 2023 Andrew is an artist of Maestro Guitars (Singapore), tours around the world with multidisciplinary magic-music-movement show "Most Human Post-Human", and is a participant of improvisational ethnic project "Ancient Skies" with Dominique Zuniga.

"Andrew Axenov's new album Hidden World Fairytales sounds absolutely fantastic! The compositions are captivating and it's a real pleasure to listen to."

Petteri Sariola

renowned fingerstyle guitarist

Hidden World Fairytales

In 2022 Andrew released "Hidden World Fairytales", an album that demonstrates all his achievements in composing and arranging music during last 18 years.

It consists of 10 tracks, each of them has it's unique voice and inspiring idea behind. Andrew shares this ideas with the audience on stage to help them get the deepest musical experience.

Andrew's live perfomances are based on both the music from this album and unreleased music from a new upcoming record.

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Hidden World Fairytales

In 2022 Andrew released "Hidden World Fairytales", an album that demonstrates all his achievements in composing and arranging music during last 18 years.

It consists of 10 tracks, each of them has it's unique voice and inspiring idea behind. Andrew shares this ideas with the audience on stage to help them get the deepest musical experience.

Andrew's live perfomances are based on both the music from this album and unreleased music from a new upcoming record.

Listen to the album

Live shows

Andrew Axenov performs his new program "Hidden World Fairytales" - a one-man instrumental show based on heartwarming original melodies and fiery rhythms, visually stunning approach to playing acoustic guitar, huge live guitar sound (unexpected from this instrument) and inspiring storytelling that glues all these together into profound emotional experience.

During his performances, he seamlessly blends diverse techniques to create multiple layers, imitating voice, drums, violin, keyboards and other instruments, proving that one guitar is enough to make magic.

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"When you play, you don't need a singer or any other instruments - one guitar is enough for magic"

Daniela | Brazil