Close Milana Zilnik (Canada, composer, pianist, vocalist, Hang drummer) is a multi-award winning pianist, composer and singer-songwriter, who has been a performing and recording artist since her childhood. A strong lyricist and composer in her own right, Milana’s style is reminiscent of Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Michael Nyman, Keith Jarret and Chick Corea. Milana enjoys playing by ear, improvising and using whatever inspires her to create her own style of music, a fusion of classical, rock, world and jazz genres.

Milana was born in Ukraine, lived in Israel for many years and moved to Canada in 2008. Having lived in different countries has enriched her musical experiences and storytelling. Her songs touch on issues of belonging, identity, the inner child, war and peace, and life and death. Soulful singing and complex piano melodies are Milana’s signature, but she embraces a variety of styles — everything from folk, blues, opera and Middle Eastern, to her soft spots for rock and jazz.

Milana has published three books with original scores for solo piano, released over twenty original full-length albums. More than 50 of her piano solo works have been featured on music editorials such as Apple Music’s “Piano Chill” or Amazon Music’s “Ultimate Classical” station. Her music has been streamed over 60 Million times on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora and related platforms. In 2023 Milana’s orchestral and piano solo works were performed by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra alongside compositions by Helge Burggrabe and Ralph Vaughan Williams for Bryan Arias’s ballet show based on “The Little Prince” story.

Close Arty Sandler (aka Artyom Tchebotaryov, Canada, producer)

Milana’s husband for 20 years and a software developer and a manager by day, Arty founded and developed many online projects in his free time. Since 2012, Milana and Arty started a shared musical project together, eventually growing into a recording & composing studio. Arty is managing audio & video production, as well all the business related side of running a studio.

Close Justin Gray (Canada, mixing and mastering) is an award-winning producer, mixing engineer and mastering engineer based in Toronto. Over the course of his career, Justin has received several awards and distinctions, including the recent 2022 Juno award for best Jazz Album.

Justin is a leader in the field of immersive audio mixing & mastering, where he works with artists, producers and labels worldwide to bring their music to life in the Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio formats. As a mixing and mastering engineer, Justin works out of his own studio (Synthesis Sound & Immersive Mastering), which is one of the first Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA certified music studios in Canada.

As an educator, Justin is on faculty at Humber College in Toronto, where he teaches audio production, composition and music performance.

Close Yoed Nir (Israel, cello) has truly captured a unique voice and musical homogeny that stands as a reflection on the landscape of our world today. Endorsed by Yamaha, Apogee, DPA & D’Addario he has emerged fully formed in command of his craft, identity and music through his debut record Suspended Hours.

Nir appears on more than 4000 albums worldwide as a cellist and/or arranger. Over the past few years he has recorded and toured with Regina Spektor, Judy Collins and Interpol’s Paul Banks, appearing on their most recent albums and concert broadcasts from around the world. He has performed in such storied venues as Radio City Music Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center, to name a few.

Yoed has also appeared on The Today Show and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC), The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS), Good Morning America (ABC), The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) and Later with Jools Holland (BBC).

Close Vitaliy Tkachuk (Ukraine, guitars) is a guitarist and composer from Odessa, Ukraine. He plays acoustic and electric guitars, bansuri flutes and arabian oud. Born in 1977, he studied music in his hometown, Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), jazz guitar in “Hanns Eisler” high music school in Berlin, and then in Mumbai (India), where he learned the art of Indian bansuri flute from the greatest bansuri exponent Hariprasad Chaurasia.

Vitaliy played and recorded with many Ukrainian and international artists, such as Marc Bernstein, Kevin Mahogany, Ray Brown jr., Chanda Rule, Karl Frierson (DePhazz), Ingrid Arthur, Ashley Slater, Louie Austin, Don Dunn, Vladimir Chekasin, Onita Boon, Vernon D. Hill and many others.

Vitaliy recorded the soundtrack to a famous silent movie by Dziga Vertov — “A Man with a Movie Camera” (1928), successfully premiered on MAMI international movie festival in Mumbai (India) in 2016 by Vitaliy Tkachuk quartet. He also released a solo-guitar album “Life on Strings” and is currently working on “Cafe Damask”, 5-piece acoustic band that plays arabian-influenced music.

Close Phil DiMercurio (USA, drums and percussion) has played drums since a very young age and it was always a dream for him to turn it into a professional career. By taking on a path in the audio engineering industry and getting a formal training behind the drum kit for 12 years, Phil was able to acquire the knowledge and equipment to make this dream possible.

With 15 years of experience in recording studios, Phil has worked and written for Grammy nominated and multi-award winning artists. He has a small personal studio that he built in Hagerstown, Maryland (USA) where Phil records for clients, friends, family, and himself.

When Phil was writing the parts for “Metamorfosi” album, his approach was to put emphasis on when to play and what colors to add. He also put a lot of focus on when not to play and let the other instruments take over giving the song a chance to breathe.

Close Craig Akin (USA, electric and upright bass) was born in Tulsa, OK in the early 70’s. His musical path was charted by a family of creatives and wanderlust inspired by the meandering Arkansas River. Next to his mama, Craig learned to play the piano at age 8 and turned to the trumpet at twelve. While most adolescents at the time were learning to “Walk like an Egyptian”, or glued to INXS (insert 80’s band of choice!) on MTV, Craig began guitar theory and harmony lessons.

Since then, Craig Akin has contributed to more than 100 albums and performed in well over 5,000 shows from Tulsa to Taipei, with countless New York gigs and hundreds of national and international concerts and festivals in between.

What he brings to the bandstand and studio today is a talent that is versatile, professional, relentless, intuitive yet always prepared. He’s passionate and authentic but also quickly adaptable to any musical situation, from jazz to pop, and folk to rock, Craig is always committed to every note.

Close Boris @netocrat Khodorkovsky (Canada, flutes) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. A saxophone student of legendary Gerald Danovitch, Boris performed numerous times at the Montréal Jazz Festival as part of the Valentino Orchestra and other bands.

Boris started his music journey at Jerusalem Conservatory and later graduated from McGill University. As a session musician, he composed, performed, and recorded with numerous orchestras and bands in Israel, Canada, and Ukraine. His mastery spans a range of instruments, including flutes, saxophones, keyboards, clarinet, duduk, and other woodwinds, covering repertoire from Classical to Klezmer, from New Age to Rock, Salsa, and Jazz.

Boris performed for top government officials of several countries, TV shows, and theatrical plays, including musicals such as West Side Story and Assasins. He was featured on several internationally released albums and appeared on screen as a musician in several Hollywood feature films and music videos.

Boris is comfortable in many styles, reinventing his talent in composition. In Ukraine, he was often dubbed “sound therapist” due to his soulful sound and distinctive improvisational style.

Close Diana Sharp (Canada, vocal training and recording assistant) studied as an opera singer in the UK, touring with national and regional opera companies and singing with orchestras throughout England. With the trio Sirens she toured Ireland, Sweden and Italy and performed two seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with comedy trio Opera Larks.

She’s been working with singers in all vocal disciplines for 20 years, coaching them on technique, performance, stage craft, the business of being a singer and interpretation, encouraging singers to explore their full instrument and expression. She runs Sharp Performance Singer’s Studio in Ottawa and works with international and local singers alike.

Close Anastasia Frenkel (Canada, illustrations) is traditional artist who specializes in watercolor painting. She started painting and drawing at a very young age and now is pursuing a career in art.

Antastasia’s artwork echoes themes of fantasy and escapism as a way to reflect on reality. Views of imaginary worlds, fantasy creatures, and representation of freedom often repeat in her work. Antastasia draws inspiration from media and mythology as well as personal experience.

When working on “Metamorfosi”, the main concept was to create a world of wonders. A circus that draws you in with magic and technology. Themes of fantasy and steampunk are heavily present in each illustration, along with personal knowledge of the performance arts. This has been the most complex and large collaboration for Anastasia so far and the result is this collection of illustrations.

Close Sergey Boyko (Israel, decorations, filming and editing) is a freelance photographer, mainly specializing in creative photography. Sergey was born in Germany in 1981, lived in St. Petersburg, Russia for about 30 years. He received his higher education at the University of Film and Television.

These days Sergey lives in northern Israel with his three sons: Daniel, Leon and Michael. He has been doing photography for about 10 years, and for the last 3 years his main focus has been creative photography. Even as a child Sergey really enjoyed watching people create miniatures, but it was only in 2022 that he tried his hand at this art form. At the moment, all works are created together with his eldest son Daniel. Daniel is only fourteen years old, but this is the person who succeeds in everything he does. Main specialization: drone filming, video shooting and editing.