Alona Milner is an Israeli born pianist, an alumnus of the McGill-UdeM piano Vocal residency program supported by the Azrieli Foundation in Montreal, Canada. In September 2024, she will start a Doctor of Music degree at the University of Montreal. Graduated (M.Mus) Cum Laude and Dean’s list from the Buchmann Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University under the guidance of Prof. Tomer Lev. She was an “Excellent Musician” at the IDF.

Working intensively with singers, Alona played the piano at the performance of La Cenerentola by Rossini in a live performance of opera McGill under Giovanni Reggioli. Alona played her recent recital called "La Valse" in Villecroze and Draguignan, (France), and in Tel Aviv in 2023. She played a recital at the Israeli embassy in Paris in 2022.

Alona is a recipient of the Polonsky foundation scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival and school in 2022, studied with Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen (Julliard). She received the Sir Jack Lyons Scholarship for the Arts to study in Banff the art of piano program. She was invited to the Edwin Fischer Summer Academy in Potsdam with Prof. Klaus Hellwig (UdK).

She has been supported by the American Israel Cultural Foundation since 2014 and is a top excelling grant recipient in 2022-2024. She is supported by the Ronen Foundation since 2019.

Alona recently received a generous grant from Villecroze music academy for her project "Dance the Waltz".

Alona Milner was generously supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Scholarship for the Arts.

Sean Lee (he/they) is an artist and curator exploring the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. His methodology explores crip cultural practices as a means to resist normative idealities. Orienting towards a “crip horizon”, Sean’s practice explores the transformative possibilities of access aesthetics as an embodied politic that can desire the ways disability disrupts. 

Sean is currently the Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability. He holds a B.A. in Arts Management and Studio from UTSC. Sean is also an independent curator, lecturer, and advisor, adding his insights and perspectives to conversations across Canada, the US, and internationally. He has taught “Accessibility in Curating: A Framework” at NODE Curatorial Studies Online and the Hidden Project with Goethe Institut Shanghai. Sean serves on the board of the Toronto Arts Council and CARFAC Ontario, and is Chair of TAC’s Visual and Media Arts Committee, and is a member of the External Advisory Panel supporting the City of Toronto in the development of its next ten-year culture plan, the Action Plan for Toronto’s Culture Sector.