Sergey Belichenko  - http://www.jazz.ru/pages/belichenko -is outstanding jazz drummer, with whose participation about 40 LPs and CDs in Russia, England, Switzerland, Austria and Germany have been released. Many ensembles of jazz and improvising music, including Snow Children, Golden Years of Jazz and New Generation, have appeared under his leadership. He has participated in more than one hundred jazz festivals. He is also widely known as jazz promoter and festival organizer, the founder of Creative Jazz Unity, jazz journalist and historiographer of jazz movement in Siberia.Susan Allen – http://music.calarts.edu/~susie  - is widely known for her premiere performances of new music for harp throughout the US, Canada, South America, Australia and Europe. With jazz great Yusef Lateef she performed at the Los Angeles Festival, the Verona Jazz Festival in Italy, the World Music Institute's Concert Series in New York, the Jazz Bakery, and the Jazz and Blues All-Star Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. Susan performs on the concert harp, the electric harp and the Kayagum (Korean zither). She has also lectured internationally on both the harp and music pedagogy and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.Roman Stolyar – http://rstmusic.narod.ru - has participated in many festivals and concerts of jazz, improvisation and contemporary music in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland, Denmark, UK and USA. He is active not only as piano improviser but also as a composer of new symphony, chamber and electronic music. He also works a lot as a composer for theatres and accompanist of contemporary dance. As an educator he works at the jazz department of Novosibirsk musical college where he has developed his own training course “Theoretical Foundations of Jazz Improvisation”.