Alexander Bakshi was born in Sukhumi in 1952 and graduated from the Don Conservatory. He has lived in Moscow since 1985. In his artistic searches he works with a synthesis of theater and music and has developed a new genre — the “theater of sound.” Many of Bakshi's works have premiered outside of Russia, including «Winter in Moscow. Icy Roads…» (Ivrea, Italy, 1994), “A Scene for Tatyana Grindenko and Violin” (New York, 1995), and others. His masterwork to date is “The Polyphony of the World,” a musical mystery that was directed by Kama Ginkas for the Chekhov International Theater Festival in Moscow in 2001. In all, Bakshi has written music for over 30 dramatic productions, often working with the director Valery Fokin. Together with his wife Lyudmila, Bakshi founded the Theater of Sound Laboratory in 2003. They organized the first International Theater of Sound Festival in Moscow in November, 2003, an event which boasted the participation of Heiner Goebbels, Philip Glass, Gidon Kremer and other luminaries of contemporary music.

Lyudmila Bakshi holds a Ph. D. in musicology from the Institute of Art Research in Moscow and has published numerous articles about contemporary music. As a musician, a soprano, she has performed throughout Europe, Japan and the United States. She has staged a dozen musical-theatrical productions in Russia, Poland and other countries. She oversaw the creation of the musical introduction to Kama Ginkas' production of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince (2000) and she teaches in Ginkas' directing course at the Moscow Art Theater School. She compiled and published the scores for Alexander Bakshi's “A Hotel Room in the Town of NN“ and “The Metamorphosis” in the book „Scores for Two Plays."