Milana Zilnik

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0SUXtIe1k Continuing with Una Corda series that we spontaneously recorded last weekend. Only three weeks left till the release of "The Snow Queen Waltz" - our theatrical music video, the first one set on the stage with decorations, dancers, a video crew - over thirty people who participated in this project. If you are on Facebook, you are welcome to join th...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnqPLgd87A ----- Days go by, the New Year is just around the corner and it's -25C outside. This year was full of surprises, challenges and incredible outcomes. Thank you and have a wonderful New Year ahead! And I hope you will enjoy this ambient "Escape of the Mind" from the "Una Corda Dream" series. Just in case you missed my latest uploads, here is the lis...

Video: https://youtu.be/s4LXKfQIXpU --- -25C feels like -38?! Yes, this is the weather today and this whole winter turned to be quite cold. I am begging for summer, lol :) Here are some of my recent videos, just in case you missed them :) "Escape of the mind", another Una Corda improvisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnqPLgd87A My take on "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy": https://www.youtube...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUUHrROnrMs --- Sometimes it's good to let your worries go and just "zoom" into what's more important: new day, new Spring, new moments, new magic, new dreams. Zoom into this "Una Corda Dream", my jazzy way to play Una Corda (unique piano created by David Klavins). Appreciate your shares, subscriptions and comments :) Here is the playlist with all my "Una Cor...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kUbsoqfq2I --- My upcoming piano album is shaping itself! It will include 14 tracks, played on The Giant. Some of the tracks you've heard already, others are in the making. The album will tell a musical story of visiting a dream land, where Giants Roam the Earth. We plan to release the album somewhere in September, so stay tuned ;-) Meanwhile, here is someth...

https://youtu.be/UH30wtT-5BA --- Underwater Tango? I don't know how I came up with this title but I kept seeing underwater scenery while improvising this piece. And it sounds like Tango at parts. Enjoy another dream on Una Corda piano! And some exciting news! Some of you have heard these exciting news already but I wanted to share them again to my SoundCloud friends! Last Saturday "The Snow Queen...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEWFrraIKU --- Una Corda is such a light and dreamy instrument but it can also be dark and dramatic at times. I hope you will enjoy it. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_rDw-1Qbw --- While Giants prepare to roam the Earth on my upcoming album, here is a dream from the Una Corda land for you. This one is all about the dialogue between major and minor, wherever it goes. We are working days and nights on the upcoming album with the accompanying sheet music book. Transcribing some old recordings by ear, engraving the scores, m...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlp1ZJmERe0 --- I've been so busy lately, working on my upcoming album and spending quality time with my parents who came to visit us from the other side of Atlantic ocean. Alas, today is their last day and tomorrow they fly back home... which inspired this bluesy improvisation - "Teardrop blues". As for the album, yay, it is finished! All 14 pieces are recor...

Yet another spontaneous Una Corda Improvisation :)

One more spontaneous improvisation on Una Corda. Enjoy!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9QWWsyU6o ---- This year has started quite busy not leaving much time for new recordings. Here is another popular song that some of my students asked me to teach them how to play and sing it. On another note :) Last year thanks to your votes I got the chance to play on the stage of Berlin Philharmonie! This year you can help me perform in Place des Arts in...

Video: https://youtu.be/qSCmRq85lPU ---- Happy Valentine's Day to you and your beloved ones! I haven't really planned to record this cover but one of my students practiced this song with me for a couple months and it got stuck in my head :) So, to "unstuck" it, here is my rendition of the song. Be sure to check our recording of my student's performance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbhAO1lIh0...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHeSEp9k6w ----- So, I got a new instrument to explore :) My husband made me this present and it turned to be a present for the entire family because we all are obsessed with it now.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn7FKPfaKDc --- This is NOT "Carol of the Bells" but I hope my improvisational version will put you in the Christmas mood nevertheless :)

Video: https://youtu.be/c4x5Rpmdf-4 ---- This soundtrack from "The Arctic & Antarctica" film is one of the most humorous one! What can be funnier than clumsy penguins? When composing music for the penguins scenes I tried to find the rhythms that reflect the way penguins are walking. I looked for ethnic instruments and when I heard African Bolon it "clicked". I added some more ethnic percussion lik...

Video: https://youtu.be/DGgIUQzKtMs --- This snippet from "The Arctic & Antarctica" film is all about the journey to the frozen lands. I tried to put different feelings into this this soundtrack. Of course, the obvious one is the anticipation of seeing the snowy world but I also added the melancholy of leaving your home. It turned to be a fusion of Latin jazz and some French vibes with a bit odd m...

Video: https://youtu.be/HM3Y8PuoaIo --- Yay, today the soundtrack album for the first documentary that I scored is released on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and can be streamed on Spotify as well! Enjoy the main theme song from the film and the album! "Frozen Song" for Arctic and Antarctica - the film directed and produced by our friend, Liss Ross, who visited both frozen lands. https://arcticantarctic...

Video: https://youtu.be/VwpjNTegGvE ---- Coming soon! The soundtrack album for the first documentary that I scored. The film was directed and produced by our friend, Liss Ross, who visited both frozen lands: Arctic and Antarctica. https://arcticantarcticafilm.com/ Nature themes can be heard in my music quite often, yet it was intriguing and challenging to write music about the Arctic and Antarctic...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0_JNV-Z64A ---- This was the song of my youth. I wanted to sing it for over 20 years yet only now I felt like I am ready for that. Like many others I was shocked this year to know that Dolores is gone. This cover is our little tribute to her and her unique voice. I hope I did it justice. Many thanks to my husband Arty who is always there for me and who produ...

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8lqjh8Hvw --- Where Giants roam the Earth there is a Giant piano - The Piano As Big As a Tree. In the summer of 2015 I had the amazing chance to play the biggest upright piano in the world - "The Giant", made by David Klavins (@thepianoguy), the renowned pianomaker. When I touched "The Giant" for the first time, this very piece was born under my finge...

Video: https://youtu.be/5ffk_-7VzYY --- Enjoy this moody autumnal track from the newly released album "Where Giants Roam The Earth"! The last couple of weeks have been quite intense. We had an amazing trip to Berlin where I got the chance to perform on the stage of Berlin Philharmonie and meet with many extraordinary pianists from Enlightened Piano Radio. It was a wonderful surprise and a honor to...

Video: https://youtu.be/euRvpQigjUA --- The summer has been so busy for me that it flew by and I barely noticed it actually happened. So many things were going on, all at the same time: going to IMEA Awards, working days and nights on the upcoming album and the sheet music book, preparing for filming the upcoming music video, spending some quality time with my parents who visited us here in Canada...

Video: https://youtu.be/GxrGQVF54RE ------- Journeys can be amazing, exciting and adventurous but at the end there is nothing like coming back home. Enjoy "Coming Home" - this cinematic piano track from the album "Where Giants Roam The Earth" is one of my personal favorites. The album is getting its first awards already: Silver Medal for “Contemporary Classical Album” from Global Music Awards and...

Video: https://youtu.be/O7SxwkV9mFM ---- It feels like Spring is finally here! At least we are getting sunny days and all the snow and ice start to recede. I hope you will enjoy this Spring soundtrack from the album "Where Giants Roam The Earth" that was released last year! Thanks to your votes this album was nominated for Enlightened Piano Radio Awards, yay! I got the chance to perform on the sta...