Igor Khoroshev

Igor Khoroshev Игорь Хорошев
Igor Khoroshev (1998)
Background information
Birth name	Igor Petrovich Khoroshev
Born	(1965-07-14) 14 July 1965 (age 51) Moscow, Soviet Union
Genres	Progressive rock
Instruments	Keyboards, piano, synthesizers
Years active	1983-present
Associated acts	Yes, Benjamin Orr
Notable instruments
Electronic keyboard

Igor Petrovich Khoroshev (Russian: Игорь Пeтpoвич Хорошев; born 14 July 1965, in Moscow) is a Russian keyboard player living in the USA, best known for his work with Yes between 1997 and 2001. Khoroshev appeared on their studio albums Open Your Eyes and The Ladder. Igor supported those albums on their tours. He appeared on "Roundabout" by playing a cowbell while doing the keyboards. He also plays on the live album / DVD House of Yes: Live from House of Blues.

Igor Khoroshev was born in Moscow, Russia. He took piano lessons from age four and later learned other instruments including the trombone, French horn, guitar and drums. He obtained a diploma in music.

In the early 1990s, he moved to the USA, settling in Boston, where he worked with Benjamin Orr of The Cars among others. Khoroshev met Carl Jacobson of the Cakewalk software house. Jacobson employed Khoroshev, who composed music for Cakewalk's Pro Audio 9, and he also introduced Khoroshev to Yes's Jon Anderson.

Khoroshev released a solo album Piano Works in 1999. He appeared on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album Encores, Legends and Paradox. In March 2000, he and Jon Anderson worked on an album called True You, True Me. The album was estimated to be released in November of that year, with a tour as a duet in early 2001. This did not, however, come to fruition and the collaboration project was shelved.