FIMA CHUPAKHIN is a NYC-based Ukrainian jazz pianist and multimedia composer. In 2019 Fima Chupakhin was nominated by the Ukrainian Film Awards in a category “best composer of the year” for his music for “The Wild Fields”, a feature film based on the book “Voroshylovgrad” by the acclaimed Ukrainian writer and poet Serhyi Zhadan. Fima and Zhadan also collaborate in a duo project (spoken word with piano and electronics), with which they recorded two albums. Most recently Chupakhin scored a debut feature film by the 2020 Sundance-winner, Ukrainian director Iryna Tsilyk. Full list of Chupakhin’s works for film, TV and commercials is available on Fima’s website (link below).

Fima is highly regarded on the New York music scene as an exquisite jazz pianist, versatile keyboardist, composer, arranger and sound-producer. His debut US album “Water” was self-released in October 2019 and acquired positive reviews in the States and worldwide. He is currently working on a new album with his trio, as well as on a solo piano record that would include the “One Day They Will Be Dancing” piano suite and other through-composed pieces. In addition to his acoustic piano medium, Fima plays keys/synths and sound produces the Brooklyn-based soul/RnB band “fake tapes”. He also frequently collaborates with singers and instrumentalists on both sides of the pond, including such American artists, as the jazz singer Andromeda, jazz/RnB singer Kristina Koller and Ukrainian pop singers/songwriters Jamala (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016), Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Serhyi Babkin and many others.

Fima Chupakhin first came to the US in 2012 as a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study with one of his jazz heroes - Mugrew Miller, who at the time was the head of the Jazz Program at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. Since moving to New York in 2015 Fima played as both, a sideman and a band leader at several US jazz festivals, including Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz fest and White Plains Jazz Fest. He plays in many famous NYC clubs, such as Smalls Jazz Club, Mezzrow, Ornithology, Minton’s, Pianos, Bowery Electric, Rockwood Music Hall, Bitter End, The Nest and many others.