Piotr Orlov
Piotr Orlov has been a music storyteller and musicker for over three decades. His writing has appeared in New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and the Village Voice. He was director of special projects at AFROPUNK, senior editor at NPR Music, and editorial director at MTV.
Piotr helped produce the Red Bull Music Academy in New York. He is an adjunct teacher of writing and history at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and at Columbia University School of the Arts.
Piotr is also the founder of Dada Strain, a platform grounded in rhythm, improvisation, and community. If you're in the New York City area and want to get weekly independent jazz, electronic and house music event listings and musician profiles, you really should become a (paid!) subscriber.
headshot photo by Kate Glicksberg