(mantra), Givan Gasparian (duduk) and the world-known percussion player and Grammy-award-winner Evelyn Glennie (who worked with Bjork) participated in the recording of “Premonitions of the Shooting Star” - one of recent joint creations of Duo Zikr and sound producer Andrei Samsonov. The music from the latter became a soundtrack for an episode from the movie series about world cultures and religions “India in Real Time”, directed by cinematographer Sergei Debizhev. Soloists of the Magic Theatre of Voice fruitfully cooperated with Sergei Kurekhin and jointly participated in Berlin Independence Days festival in Germany and also took part in the last work of the musician “The Pop-Mechanics” called “Three Steps in Rave”. Mstislav Rastropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya were amazed and deeply moved by the vocal improvisations of Igor and Olga when they came to their concert. When the concert had finished the Duo received “blessings” of these great musicians. The Duo has produced some striking videos which were recognized at various contests. For instance “The Road to Katmandu” shot under the direction of Fedor Bondarchuk got the prize at “Pokolenie-98” (“Generation-98”) music clips festival. Ms. Irina Taymanova, production director and musician, made a 20-minute long movie about duo Zikr called “The Wandering of Souls” that received the grand-prix of “The Velvet Season” international festival. One rare event when the soloists of the Magic Theatre of Voice sang concrete words instead of spontaneous syllables and sounds was the soundtrack to “The Song about the Cheese Spirit” , an animated cartoon by famous fable of Aesop “The Fox and the Crow”. Igor and Olga enjoy live concerts where they create more and more new tunes. The Duo has performed concerts in the USA, France, Italy, England, Finland, Slovakia, Israel, Australia and other places around the globe. It has been featured several times at the international sound recording and music market MIDEM in Cannes and Hong Kong. Ms. Tkachenko and Mr. Silin have long history of performing in Roman Catholic Churches and temples where, according to them, “You can perceive the music of the Duo the best”. Jim Bessman, special correspondent for BILLBOARD magazine (NY, USA) - “Apart from dynamic improvisations making the visitors experience unique feelings, there is one more thing about the Duo. That is an astonishing attraction of the passion in the very voices and the manner of the performing”. In 2007 Igor and Olga launched an experimental project that later on