Asia

The Creative Union of ASIA is a community of composers and performers coexisting in the genre of “modern chamber song”: Elena Frolova , Nikolay Yakimov , Alexander Derevyagin , Tatyana Alyoshina . It was founded in 1993 ^[1] . By the musicians' own admission, the Creative Union “ASIA” is “four people, completely autonomous and independent in their creative aspirations, united by a mutual interest in each other’s creativity and human sympathy” ^[2] .

Asia
basic information
Genre	1) Original song at the intersection of music, poetry and theater (according to Alyoshina) 2) Poetic song (according to Frolova) 3) Modern chamber song (according to Yakimov and Derevyagin)
Years	since 1993
A country	Russia
Language of songs	Russian
Label	ASIA Plus
Composition	Elena Frolova, Nikolay Yakimov, Alexander Derevyagin, Tatyana Alyoshina
www.asia-plus.ru

The idea of ​​creating such a union belonged to Nikolai Yakimov and Alexander Derevyagin ^[3] , who invited Elena Frolov and Tatyana Alyoshin. It is noteworthy that Tatyana Alyoshina was not a concert artist, but was a composer, theater figure and vocal teacher. According to her, she "moved from the" camp "of authors to the" camp "of authors-performers."

In 2000, members of the Creative Union created the ASiYa Plus Art Studio (St. Petersburg), with Nikolai Yakimov becoming its art director ^[4] , and Alexander Derevyagin as sound engineer ^[5] . The aim of the project was to proclaim support for the genre of “modern chamber song”. The main activity of the Studio was the recording and publishing of music albums, the release of books and audio books, as well as the organization of concerts and musical and poetic evenings for members of the union and related poets and musicians (in particular, Viktor Luferov ^[6] , Andrei Anpilov , Elena Kazantseva , Manana Menabde , Vera Evushkina , Victor Sosnora , Olga Sedakova , etc.) ^[7] .