Alperin was born in
Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR to a Jewish family. He was educated in
Khmelnytskyi,
Bălți and
Chișinău. In 1980, he formed one of the first jazz ensembles in
Moldavian SSR. He moved to Moscow in the 1980s and founded the
Moscow Art Trio with
Arkady Shilkloper and folk singer
Sergey Nikolaevich Starostin. Alperin died on 11 May 2018 at the age of 61. == Discography ==