Alex Tintaru is the bass

Bass (instrument)

Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...

 player for Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 bands Direc-t

Direc-t

Direc-t is an Alternative rock band from Turkey. Its line-up includes Alex Tintaru, Bilge Kösebalaban and Özgür Peştimalci.- Band history :A car accident resulted in the naming of the band Direc-t in 1997. The band's name Direc-t means "post", named after the post that they crashed into...

 and Dorian

Dorian (Turkish Rock Band)

Dorian is a Turkish rock band. The band members are İlkin Kitapçı, Mehmet İncilli, Alex Tintaru, Afşar Yağcıoğlu and Murat Ötünç.-History:Dorian was found in 2000 in Istanbul/Turkey and found its final cast in 2002...

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In 1983 Tintaru entered the Music High School of Sergey Rahmanninov

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

 and graduated from the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 course in 1991. In 1993 he graduated from the piano and contrabass

Contrabass

Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...

 courses at Stefan Nyaga Music College. In 1998 he received honours as a music teacher from the M. Solokov Open Pedagogy University. Starting from 1990, he played with various bands such as Crystal Shit, Cripples, Fuctory and Vid Sboku in Moldova.

Between the years of 1996 and 1997 Tintaru became part of the academic staff as a piano teacher at the Music School of the Mussorgsky Conservatory in Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

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, Russia

Russia

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