Therr maitz

• Anton Belyaev (vocals, keys),
• Victoria Zhuk (vocals),
• Dmitry Pavlov (guitar),
• Dmitry Fomin (bass),
• Ignat Kravtsov (drums),
• Ilya Lukashev (sound engineer),
• Jorge Palacio (percussionist).

1995-2006

In 1995, while studying at a music school, Anton Belyaev arranged jam sessions with musicians on the basis of the Christian interfaith radio station "New Life" in Magadan. Then the foundation was laid for the first track, The Flow.

In 1998, Anton Belyaev entered the Khabarovsk State Institute of Arts and Culture in the department of pop and jazz. During his studies, he worked in various clubs in Khabarovsk as a musician and art director. In 2004, becoming the art director of the Rus club, he invited musicians Dmitry Pavlov (guitar), Maxim Bondarenko (bass), Konstantin Drobitko (trumpet), Evgeny Kozhin (drums) to play in the club. The presence of a technical base in the club allowed Anton Belyaev to start creating music, which formed the basis for the work of Therr Maitz. Of the samples recorded in Magadan until 1998, the track The Flow, as well as Paris Line, was made. Inspired by the purchase of the Rhodes Piano Mark II , Anton Belyaev recorded the track The Ocean, the main part of which was performed by Konstantin Drobitko (trumpet).

In 2005, Anton Belyaev signed a contract with a Japanese company for a series of club performances in Tokyo and Kyoto and went to work with musicians in Japan. In December 2005, promoter Sinisa Lazarevich opened Out hall club in Vladivostok, at the opening of which Therr Maitz invited. Then Dmitry Pavlov and Maxim Bondarenko moved to Moscow. Konstantin Drobitko left the group due to the fact that he had left for Korea under a work contract. Evgeny Kozhin decided to stay in Khabarovsk. Anton Belyaev remained under work contracts in Vladivostok (BSB club, Out hall), and in 2006 he moved to Moscow.

2006—2010

From 2006 to 2013, Anton Belyaev worked as a music producer with Tamara Gverdtsiteli , Igor Grigoryev , Maxim Pokrovsky , Polina Gagarina .

Therr Maitz activity from 2006 to 2010 was frozen.

2011—2013

In May 2010, the album Sweet Oldies was released, which is a compilation of tracks recorded in an early period. The good sales figures for the album on iTunes made Anton Belyaev think that the Therr Maitz should resume the concert activity.

In the fall of 2010, Anton Belyaev met Oleg Inzhievov (drums, TANTSUI project) and invited him to work together.

October 22, 2010 a concert was held in the club Squat. After that, Dmitry Pavlov ( Megapolis , Pole) and Maxim Bondarenko left the group. In this regard, Anton Belyaev began to look for new musicians.

During the session recording of the Tango track for Igor Grigoryev, Anton Belyaev met Nikolai Sarabyanov (guitar) ( MED DOG , Basta , Noggano , Irina Bogushevskaya , Grishkovets and Bigudi, Tokyo , Machete, Batyrkhan Shukenov ) and invited him to work with Therritz Shukenov ).

While recording tracks for Polina Gagarina, Anton Belyaev met with Artem Tildikov (bass) ( Zemfira , Noggano ) and he also joined Therr Maitz. Boris Ionov (drums) (Zventa Sventana, Guru Groove Foundation, Noggano , Basta , Vladimir Presnyakov , Polina Gagarina ) replaced Oleg Inzhzhova in the spring of 2011.

On Friday, May 13, 2011, the first concert in the new line-up took place in the Cargo Bar on Red October. Sound engineer Ilya Lukashev was invited to this concert. Victoria Beetle (Los Devchatos) was invited to the backing vocals. Thus formed the main active composition of Therr Maitz.

In 2011, Therr Maitz performed at one of the largest jazz festivals in Russia, Jazz Manor , at the annual international festival Republic of KaZantip , at the international festival of music and media art MIGZ
In 2012, in Tomsk, the group took part in the Red Rocks festival, held under the patronage of Sberbank of Russia and dedicated to the Sochi Olympics.

In May 2013, Gorky Park hosted the large Bosco Fresh festival as part of the Cherry Forest open art festival, in which Therr Maitz took part with WOODKID , Datarock , Motorama and other best indie musicians of the world.

On June 12, the annual Maxidrom festival was held , organized by Maximum Radio . In 2013, the group headed 30 seconds to Mars , the founder of which is actor and musician Jared Leto . Therr Maitz was invited to the festival as a "warm up".

Immediately after Maksidroma, Therr Maitz went on tour to the Far East, where they performed twice as part of the Red Rocks festival (in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok), and also gave several club concerts.

July 27, 2013 Therr Maitz took part in the Gipsy parking electronic music festival, headlined by American electronic musician Nicolas Jaar .

2014 - Present

After the successful participation of frontman Anton Belyaev in the second season of the Voice show (2013) on Channel One, Therr Maitz’s popularity increased dramatically. Therr Maitz's debut single “Make It Last”, released on February 13, 2014, lasted a week in first place on Russia's iTunes single chart.

On February 20, 2014, during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the song “Feeling Good Tonight” was broadcast on the evening Urgant show.

In March 2014, the group announced the name of the upcoming record - Unicorn.

On May 12, Therr Maitz for the third time in six months appeared on the evening Urgant show with Stop Quiet.

On May 15, the Therr Maitz recital took place at Ray Just Arena , where the material of the new Unicorn album was presented. On the day of the concert, the album was placed for pre-order on iTunes , and two versions of the song Feeling Good Tonight (radio version and UNKLE remix) were immediately available for download. The radio version became the leader of the week, topping the iTunes chart within a day after the release. In the wake of interest, the first single, Therr Maitz Make It Last, also returned to the chart. On May 16 and 17, all three tracks held first place on the iTunes single chart.

The summer of 2014, the musicians spent in the first tour of Russia. For a month, Therr Maitz visited about 10 cities, after which they managed to check out on all of the country's largest open-airs: Jazz Manor , Wild Mint , ParkLive, Stereoleto and Afisha Picnic .

On October 31, 2014, iTunes officially released Therr Maitz Stop Quiet .

On December 4, 2014, the Therr Maitz presented a unique concert program accompanied by a string orchestra in Crocus City Hall; musicians from London were specially invited to perform. Sally Gerber was invited to conduct the orchestra (collaboration with Zero 7 , Bat For Lashes , Radiohead , Robbie Williams , Ellbow, Muse , Peter Gabriel ). The orchestra includes leading session musicians in the UK who participated in the recording of the soundtracks of many Hollywood films, including “ 007: Skyfall Coordinates ” and “ Casino Royale ”, “ Beginning ”, “ The Lord of the Rings ”, “The Hunger Games ”, “ Gravity ”, Tron: Legacy . They have also recorded with many artists, including Paul McCartney , Radiohead , Stevie Wonder , Robbie Williams and Florence & the Machine . Many of them include leading British orchestras. The new arrangement, made specifically for the acoustic concert, featured the famous Therr Maitz hits (Feeling Good Tonight, Make It Last, Stop Quiet, See you) and covers for world hits. A special event of the concert was the premiere of the song Robots.

March 4, 2015 iTunes released the second studio album Therr Maitz UNICORN . The tracks included in the album were recorded in the studios of London, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and were mixed in the home studio of Therr Maitz in Moscow. Over the past two months of working on the album, the record has been almost completely rewritten and included the previously released singles Make It Last, Feeling Good Tonight and Stop Quiet. In the first hour of sales, UNICORN rose to number one on the iTunes album top. InterMedia reviewer, evaluating the album at 3 stars out of 5, noted that, “despite its weaknesses and fillers, tangible loss of drive compared to“ live ”, [Unicorn] is a huge step not only for the group itself, which refused to heartless music for coffee houses and airports in favor of radio-format disco-funk, but also for domestic “pops” ” ^[4] .

April 2, 2015 Therr Maitz performed for guests of the 18th Deaflympic Winter Games in Magnitogorsk on Lake Bannoe .

August 9, 2015 Therr Maitz performed at the closing of the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan , performing their single “Make It Last” from the album UNICORN

On October 8, 2015, Therr Maitz performed again at Crocus City Hall with a special two-hour electronic program consisting of new songs. Therr Maitz's songs, which have never been heard before, and tracks from the UNICORN album, were accompanied by a unique video sequence and light show. The program was supplemented by the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra , which was accompanied by Therr Maitz that evening. (Therr Maitz first performed on the same stage with the New Russia orchestra six months before, on May 23, 2015 at the Bosco Fresh Fest festival ^[5] )

October 15, 2015 Therr Maitz debuted with the new program in London .

On September 24, two new videos, Found U and Harder, were presented at once on their YouTube video channel Therr Maitz. Filming Found U took place in the summer of 2015 in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Video is a combination of ballet, 3D technology and video art. The video was attended by Mariinsky Theater soloist Yuri Smekalov , who created a unique choreographic number for Therr Maitz. Specially for the video mapping, the model of the “head” of Anton Belyaev was printed in human height on the largest 3D printer in St. Petersburg ^[6] . Harder is the first official video from the upcoming documentary, Moviecorn. According to Anton Belyaev, the clip perfectly conveys the atmosphere of Therr Maitz live concerts. ^[7]

December 24, 2015 on YouTube the premiere of the clip Therr Maitz Doctor . Filming took 4.5 years. The clip consists of two parts: male and female. The first is Anton Belyaev , the second is his wife Julia. ^[eight]

March 11, 2016 held the spring solo concert of Therr Maitz in the capital's club Red. ^[9] The main part of the program was the band’s new songs - “365”, “My love is like”, “Taken”, “Hate ya”, “Compare” and others. Several of the final songs of the concert were broadcast live in the official group Therr Maitz on facebook

On May 6, 2016, Therr Maitz released the single “365” ^[10] . On release day, the song reached number 1 on the iTunes Alternative Music Chart, ahead of RHCP, Radiohead, and Coldplay. The next day, the track climbed to the top Google play songs, where it lasted a week.

On August 5, 2016, Therr Maitz released the Tokyo mini-acoustic mini-album. It included 4 songs recorded on the roof of a Tokyo skyscraper. For more than a week, the album held first place on the iTunes alternative music chart and for almost two weeks topped the top alternative Google Play albums

On August 13, Therr Maitz performed at the Europe stage of the largest European Sziget festival ^[11] in Budapest.

On October 7, Therr Maitz released their single and video, "My Love Is Like." On the day of release, the video topped the video chart of Russian iTunes, where it lasted 6 days. The song “My Love Is Like” held the first place on the alternative chart for a week.

For the first day, the clip “My Love Is Like” gained more than 1 million views in the Russian YouTube. Over the next 4 days, this figure increased to 2 million, and after a few weeks the number of views exceeded the mark of 4 million. The main roles in the video were played by Victoria Zhuk (vocalist of Therr Maitz) and Boris Ionov (drummer of Therr Maitz). The director and mentor of the show “DANCE” on TNT was responsible for the choreography in the video — Miguel and the choreographer of his team, Katya Reshetnikova, the roles were played by the participants in the show “DANCE”. In addition to the video itself, Therr Maitz released a movie about creating a video and backstage in a 360-degree format .

In 2016, Therr Maitz actively collaborated with TNT: the song “365” hit the soundtrack of the series “Univer” , and the songs “Harder” , “Feeling Good Tonight” and “My Love Is Like” were sounded in the show “DANCES”, where choreographic numbers were placed under them. The track “My Love Is Like” by Therr Maitz was performed live: the final gala concert of the third season of the “DANCES” show opened the band's performance, accompanied by a dance performance by Miguel.

In addition, a separate choreographic number for the show “Comedy Woman” was put on the song “My Love Is Like ”.

January 7, 2017, at Christmas, Therr Maitz released a live - video "Robots" - a recording from a concert in Crocus City Hall, where the presentation of the song was accompanied by a London string orchestra.

On May 22, 2017, the single and video “Undercover” were released. The song was first performed at a concert in November 2016, but only in mid-January, Anton and Julia shared the news that they were expecting a son. In the process of working on the single, Anton decided that this music could help other children - those whom their parents refused. So the idea of ​​a charity release came about, which is carried out jointly with Sony Music Entertainment and the Good Deeds Bureau fund - all the proceeds from the sale of the track are transferred to orphans in orphanages.

On June 30, 2017, Therr Maitz performed at the largest festival in Ukraine - Atlas Weekend, held in Kiev, and on August 5 took part in the Granatos Live festival in Vilnius.

In September 2017, the Sochi hosted the annual international New Wave contest, whose jury included Anton Belyaev. On one of the days of the contest, Therr Maitz performed the song "See You" on the stage of New Wave Hall.

In October 2017, changes took place within Therr Maitz - drummer Boris Ionov and bass guitarist Artem Tildikov left the band.

On November 3, 2017, the Therr Maitz traditional autumn concert in St. Petersburg was held. It was at this performance that the group presented an updated rhythm section in the person of drummer Ignat Kravtsov and bass guitarist Dmitry Fomin. The concert featured songs from the new album and famous concert hits accompanied by the Synergy Orchestra string orchestra under the direction of Dmitry Selipanov.

On February 14, 2018, Therr Maitz opened the pre-order of the new record “Capture” with a song and a clip “Container” . The main role in the video was played by the Georgian actress Tinatin Dalakishvili , and Anton Belyaev himself played the old man. In the first day, the clip gained more than 1 million views on YouTube, and in a few weeks the number of views was more than 5 million.

On February 14, 2018, the film “Ice” was released , one of the composers of which was Anton Belyaev. In addition to the original soundtrack, the film also uses two Therr Maitz songs - "Power ", which was released as a separate single on February 25, and "Superstar". The main musical theme of the picture was a cover of the song "Fly" by Amega group performed by Anton Belyaev.

On March 8, 2018, the Therr Maitz large solo concert was held at the Adrenaline Stadium club, accompanied by an orchestra, where the group presented songs from the new album “Capture”, and also performed their concert hits. The role of the conductor was performed by Dmitry Selipanov. A large-scale light show for the concert was developed by Sila Sveta .

On August 10, 2018, Therr Maitz celebrated their birthday - the group celebrated 7 years since the founding of the Moscow squad. The festive concert was held in the open air at the territory of the Flacon design factory ^[12] .

On September 14, 2018, the Therr Maitz recital took place at the Passionskirche church in Berlin, where they presented songs from the new album “Capture”, together with their hits ^[13] .

On September 27, 2018, Therr Maitz took part in a concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of MTV. As part of the performance, the group performed the tracks My love is like and Power together with Polina Gagarina ^[14] .

On November 17, 2018, Therr Maitz participants Anton Belyaev, Yulia Belyaeva (group director), Ignat Kravtsov (drums), Ilya Lukashev (sound engineer), Alena Roshal (tour manager) acted as speakers at the Waveforum educational forum dedicated to the creation of music and sound ^[15] .

On December 7, 2018, the group held a concert in the Big Concert Hall "October" (St. Petersburg). The concert was accompanied by the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra, the conductor of which was once again Dmitry Selipanov ^[16] . At this concert, the Cuban percussionist Jorge Lacio Palacio, who later became a permanent member of the group, first played as part of the group.

In June 2019, Nikolai Sarabyanov (guitar) left the band. Dmitry Pavlov, who participated in the very first composition of Therr Maitz, returned to his place.

In 2014, the group was recognized as the most sought-after Russian team according to the annual national award “Event of the Year” ^[1]

In 2015, Therr Maitz became the best performer of the year in the Russian iTunes and Apple Music. ^[17]

November 6, 2016 Therr Maitz were recognized as the best Russian artist according to the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards .

On October 25, 2017, Therr Maitz received the Group of the Year award for Breakthrough of the Year 2017 from Moda Topical magazine.

Official pages

• Therr Maitz Official Website
• Therr Maitz YouTube Video Channel
• Therr Maitz official Facebook page
• Therr Maitz official page on VKontakte social network
• Therr Maitz official Instagram account
• Little War Therr Maitz - Interview for the Yarkub site