Pianist Roksana Smirnova and guitarist Misha Kalinin have over the last seven years have been developing their duo sound. The result inspires a ride through an imaginary world of landscape and story. The combination of Roksana's delicate yet playful piano playing with Misha's atmospheric soundscapes creates a unique, almost unidentifiable new ensemble sound that eludes genre.

Roksana and Misha came together from different musical backgrounds, and their scope of experience is easily heard in their artistry. Misha Kalinin takes the guitar out of its traditional place. Brimming over with ideas, he creates something remarkably unexpected. Pianist Roksana Smirnovaombines spontaneity of improvisation with a sense of form influenced by herclassical background. Their performances feature original compositions by both members of the duo.

The music brings together strongly contrasting elements: spacious impressionistic sound, improvisational interaction, dynamic
rhythmic structures and sounds dissolving in silence. Musical dialogues are configured into captivating compositions that connect deeply with listeners.
Channeling the flow of inspiration, the duo actively paints pictures in the mind.

One of the duo’s core work is composing and improvising music to silent films and a list of recent performances that can be booked can be found here:

Both Roksana and Misha can also bee booked for solo performances and in other constellations, all contact info below.

After the Russian attack on Ukraine, Musikcentrum Öst initiated a project with asylum residences for Ukrainian artists in Sweden. In this work we have hand picked a few relevant displaced artists outside Sweden and promotes them aside our general roster. Roksana and Misha is at the moment