Milana Zilnik

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTAEgNPLY0 ---- Those distant worlds out there, what dawns they see, what music do they hear? Hope you enjoy this spacey soundtrack.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os5luKy0s1U --- Please enjoy my improvisation on "Etude-Tableau (op. 33, no. 8)" by Rachmaninoff. I appreciate your comments and sharing my music with others!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2ET1aiBOA --- Beware of the ghosts in the basement these days! May your Halloween be spooky but in a fun way :) Enjoy this video made by Arty for two soundtracks we composed together (the opening "Weight of the world" and the following "Night in the Basement" spooky soundscape)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ihLmPUk8A --- October, falling leaves, flaming colors, the most melancholic time of the year. Please enjoy my improvisation on "October" by Tchaikovsky. I appreciate your comments and sharing my music with others!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLCCWl2ve4 TV Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn4X1FUf_s0 ---- Been busy lately: teaching, session recordings, preparing for an interview on a TV show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn4X1FUf_s0). So, didn't have much time for composing & recording anything new. However, I so loved the short melodic motif given to me by one of the hosts on that TV sho...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXm18ruG1xc --- This is not for Elise but for another person... This is not Beethoven, but inspired by him a lot... ... This is not the first time I improvise on "Fur Elise": https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/not-fur-elise-tribute-milana ... but this is the first time I record it with video on my grand piano :) If you enjoyed this improvisational take of mi...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DyqBf_pIE ---- Reaching out seems to be one of the most difficult challenges for an artist. Reaching out other people, their interest, their ears, their souls.. Alas, I haven't been able to reach out sight-reading pianists for the "Accidental Etudes" contest. I haven't received a single entry in over three months. Disappointed...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52O0xu60-Hc Please vote: http://indi.com/t/3C697232 :) --- For a change, Arty and me decided to compose something different. Something as different as it was with "Popcorn Blues" (https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/popcorn-blues-video-milana-and-arty). So... no piano this time :) But lots of brass, strings, woodwinds - a soundtrack to accompany Mad Hatter's...

Spotify: sptfy.com/93U YouTube: youtube.com/MilanaZilnik --- Getting back to routine after the vacation: students, practicing, composing new soundtracks. Arty got himself a new hobby: to shoot some short films for the soundtracks. Here is his latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqHmSuOLi94 for the soundtrack we recorded a couple years ago. Working on a new soundtrack for Mad Hatter's Tea Party...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXEU2XH_sjs ----- Could I ever have imagined that one day I am going to play on this unique piano? I don't think so... It was something unimaginable... yet it happened...I just returned from one week vacation - it was like a dream... To come to Germany and Austria and visit musical places, which are so important to me - Beethoven's and Mozart's places... to m...

About a month ago Kyle DeMay (https://soundcloud.com/kylster3378) messaged me and asked if I can sing this song that was born from Cassie DeMay's (Kyle's daughter) poem that she wrote back in 2003 at the age of 14. I recorded both vocals and back vocals and also played some piano :) Same track on Kyle's cloud: https://soundcloud.com/kylster3378/i-stand-by-you-milana-zilnik-vocals-and-keyscassie-de...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o_O9mTnuTg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZilnikMilana --- Being inspired by soundtracks of "Interstellar" and "Terminator", composed this piece together with my husband. He spent four days with our daughter shooting & producing this music video. The video tells the story about a girl in some post-apocalyptic world and her memories of the bright and colo...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRRYrfPEISc Contest: http://milana.ws/contest/accidentaletudes Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/438280656330585/ ---- On this video I am performing my composition "Feel my pain" that is included in my very first musical scores book. Do you want to play it too? :) Join the contest and win some prizes! The book can be purchased on BandCamp, CreateSpace...

It's always a pleasure to work with Michael Orzek (@lando-orz). Funny, how we do it in turns: either Mike adding his guitar magic to my original piano compositions or songs or me adding piano line to Mike's original compositions. This piece is composed and produced by Mike. Here the same track on Mike's cloud: https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz/though-i-walk-featuring-milana ----- Michael Orzek: aco...

Spotify: sptfy.​com/93U Facebook: fb.me/​Zilnik​Milana YouTube: youtube.com/MilanaZilnik ------------------------- Just a little piano improvisation - the way I like to relax :) If you play piano and know sight-reading, I invite you to take part in my contest: http://milana.ws/contest/accidentaletudes If you know somebody who might be interested - please let them know, much appreciated! :)

Animation: https://youtu.be/13FwDnwyjy0 ------- First of all, it's not blues :) It's an oxymoron - popcorn's not bluesy at all, more like funky. But I found this to be funny, to pun around this contrast and call it "blues" :) It must be the most goofy, silly and crazy soundtrack that we've ever created. Both me and Arty are big fans of Futurama, so one day we decided to make a soundtrack for some...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXEskByrXTg Contest: http://milana.ws/contest/accidentaletudes Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/438280656330585/ ---- On this video I am performing my composition "Waltz of a dying candle" that is included in my very first musical scores book. Do you want to play it too? :) Join the contest and win some prizes! The book can be purchased on BandCamp, C...

Same day I recorded this piece by Matthias Andrä (@tunesma) https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/like-magic-by-matthias-andra-played-by-milana as it is, I also recorded an improvised version where I followed the main themes of the original but played them in a free improvisational form. Hope you like this version as well :)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOxgYAYvSD8 Contest: http://milana.ws/contest/accidentaletudes Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/438280656330585/ ---- I am thrilled to announce the release of the very first book with the musical scores of my piano compositions, included in my piano album “Accidental Etudes”! On this video I am performing my composition "Uneasy Etude" that is included...