David Blazer was born and raised in Miami, Oklahoma, where he studied with Douglas Payton on piano and DeMaris Gaines on organ. He received a BM in organ from the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Garth Peacock and George Lamb. He studied Early Music Performance at Case Western Reserve University and Liturgical Music at Notre Dame University, and holds Master’s degrees in Organ Performance and vocal performance from Cleveland State University. Blazer has performed numerous organ recitals throughout the United States and Europe including, Rome, Florence, Assisi, Vienna, Salzburg, and Jerusalem, and has directed choirs for major performances in Vienna, Florence, Assisi, Munich, and Budapest, as well as a special performance for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Blazer is currently the Director of Music and Organist of West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River, Ohio. David Blazer is also widely known for his jazz piano in local clubs throughout the Cleveland area. He is currently the featured house pianist for the famed Velvet Tango Room.

Eric Charnofsky works as a pianist, composer, lecturer, conductor, and narrator. As a collaborative pianist, he has performed with members of major American orchestras and as an orchestral keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also worked as a classical radio announcer, church choir director, pre-concert lecturer for the Cleveland Orchestra, associate faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, music director and pianist for musical theater productions, and is featured on recordings on the Capstone, Albany, Navona, and Crystal labels. Mr. Charnofsky has received composition commissions from Pacific Serenades, the Chamber Music Society of Ohio, the Cleveland Chamber Collective, and others. He is active in musical arts administration, serving on boards for the Cleveland Chamber Music Society and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has also narrated with the Cleveland Orchestra and other ensembles.

Alexander Fedoriouk began playing the cimbalom at the age of seven in his hometown of Kolomyia, Ukraine. He received his Bachelor's degree in music from the Kiev State Conservatory and a Master's in ethnomusicology at Cleveland State University. Alexander has performed as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, Orchestra Nashville, and the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. He has appeared in the Ukrainian musical movies Pisne Kalynova and Namysto Dlia Berehyni and contributed to the soundtracks of The Truth About Charlie, Over my Dead Body, Obcina the Call of the Mountain, and The Skull Key. He is featured as a soloist on a number of recordings, including those of Nigel Pulsford of Bush and legendary jazz flutist Herbie Mann. Alexander performs with Harmonia, a folk ensemble dedicated to traditional repertoire of Central and Eastern Europe.

American pianist, vocalist, entertainer, and composer Mike Petrone is best known as Cleveland’s "Piano Man," owing to his twenty-nine years and more than 6,000 performances at Johnny’s Downtown, a storied restaurant in Cleveland’s Warehouse District. His career includes more than twenty album credits, six motion picture soundtracks, 10,000 plus performances, and his stage play Caesar the Musical, which he made into an independent feature film in 2021 and has earned him fourteen wins and three nominations at film festivals around the world. Visit Mike's profile on IMDB.

Petrone's jazz piano trio has received acclaim across the globe for their sophisticated and elegant recordings of the Great American Songbook.  He has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Rock Hall of Fame. He has worked with Grammy winners, Kathleen Battle and Leonard Slatkin, and with Motown legends The Funk Brothers.

Joseph Rubin is one of the leading authorities on early American  musical theater and founded the non-profit American Musical Productions in 2003. He has restored, produced, and conducted such forgotten works from the musical stage as Madame Sherry, The Prince of Pilsen, The Sultan of Sulu, and the original 1902 The Wizard of Oz. Productions in New York, Palm Beach and Ohio include The Student Prince, The Chocolate Soldier and Naughty Marietta. A Canton, Ohio native, he created "living history" concert tributes to fellow Ohio born 1930s-40s bandleaders Freddy Martin, Ted Lewis, Isham Jones, and Clyde McCoy. Mr. Rubin conceived, produced, and conducted George M. Cohan: The Man Who Owned Broadway (Cleveland, OH) and Music Under the Stars: Iroquois Amphitheater 85th Anniversary (Louisville, KY). Mr. Rubin’s project for America’s 250th Birthday is recreating historic band concert programs throughout the state in cities including Alliance, Canton, Columbus, Hicksville, Newcomerstown, Millersburg, and more. He produced two Lillian and Dorothy Gish Film Festivals at the 1915 Lincoln Theatre in Massillon and has accompanied films on organ and piano throughout the state. Mr. Rubin splits his time between Ohio and New York City where he is the Musical Director of New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players.

Following his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Rodney Sauer founded The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra while still a master’s student at the University of Colorado. The ensemble is known for the high quality of its film score compilations and performances. The ensemble’s repertoire draws on Mr. Sauer’s extensive collection of silent film music, acquired from major collections from historic theaters, including the Grauman Theatre library, originally from the Million Dollar and Metropolitan Theatres in Los Angeles. Mr. Sauer has scored over 150 silent films, all using this historic music repertoire. The five-piece Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra tours the country, and regularly plays at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the Turner Classic Movies festival, and many others. Mont Alto's recorded silent film scores can be heard on video releases from Kino-Lorber, the Criterion Collection, Flicker Alley, Lobster Films, Image Entertainment, Blackhawk Films, the Cohen Film Collection, Eureka Films, and on Turner Classic Movies.

Jay Spencer (Organist) is house organist at the Canton Palace Theatre, playing the Kilgen Wonder Organ. Originally installed when the theater opened in 1926, it is the only Kilgen Theatre organ remaining in its original home. He has performed in concert and accompanying silent film in Northeast Ohio, and Pennsylvania, including the Mansfield Renaissance Theatre Mighty Wurlitzer, Pittsburgh’s Keystone Oaks High School Wurlitzer, the Cleveland Palace Kimball Theatre organ. Mr. Spencer is no stranger to Northern Ohio stages, directing and starring in productions for over twenty years. He is a veteran of American Musical Productions, having appeared as The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz and the title role in The Sultan of Sulu, as well as lead comedian in Madame Sherry,The Prince of Pilsen, Rio Rita, The Student Prince, TheRose of Algeria, and The Only Girl. Mr. Spencer recently stage directed the one-hundredth anniversary production of Rodgers and Hart’s music Dearest Enemy at Akron's Goodyear Theatre.