Pavel Karmanov (Russian: ?รก??? ?????????? ????รก???; born February 12, 1970 in Bratsk, Soviet Union) is a composer and a Russian rock musician.
Karmanov was introduced to music by his mother, a pianist.
As the result his first compositions were written in Novosibirsk at the early age of 5.
In the late 1970s he moved to Moscow, where was accepted to the Central School of Music for gifted young musicians, which he graduated in 1988.
In 1995 he graduated from Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In Moscow he studied with:
1978โ1981 - Georgy Dmitriev (ru)
1978โ1995 - Professor Alexey Nikolayev
1978โ1995 - Professor Albert Leman
1981โ1995 - Anatoly Bykanov
1985โ1995 - Professor Yuri KholopovIn 1996 Karmanov was accepted to the Moscow Composers Union.
From 2000 through 2017 he was a permanent member of an alternative rock group Vezhlivy Otkaz.