Dina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia where at the age of 12 she has started her journey on stage as an actress in Youth Theater of Petersburg. Few years later in 1990 she moved with her family to Israel where she continued her post secondary education in school of acting and there she discovered her passion for music as a vocalist. By the end of her last year at Sofi Moscovich School of Acting in Tel Aviv she was invited to join “Malenki” Theater directed by Igor Berezin and  performed on stage with this troupe in various shows as an actor and a singer for over five years. In 2007 Dina visited Canada where she met her future husband, artist Alexey Reznik and stayed with him in Canada since then. Together they’ve started their musical journey as a duet while Dina was also involved in Toronto theater life with NSK Theatre and Clay and Paper Theatre. Sound became her very deep interest and she went to Trebas Institute in Toronto to study Sound Engineering and Production. After successfully accomplishing her studies she has started implementing her knowledge as a Folley Artist, Production Assistant and Audio Visual Operator. In 2017, five friends came together and the Maayan Band was born. Dina is Ma’ayan band’s lead vocalist. What unites all the band members  is the desire to share the harmony that touches the eternal. Ma’ayan’s performances are all about interacting with the people who come to spend time with them because the beauty of truth is only revealed in the connection of friends. Ma’ayan Band has been performing on stages across GTA and has a very strong presence in social media.

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Dima was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1973. He started his musical career in musical school where he studied for 7 years piano, violin and drums. He continued his education in Music College of Minsk in 1986 where he studied at jazz faculty on drums, composition and piano. After 4 years, in 1990, he moved with his family to Israel, where he started to study in Jerusalem music academy, concentrating on jazz drums, composition, music arrangement and piano and graduated in 1995 with a B. A. degree in performing arts. From 1995-1997 he went to work on several music record projects in Moscow. He returned back to Israel in 1997 and worked as house engineer and in- house producer in one of the major recording studios in the country - "Studio One", where he recorded and produced over 80 various albums for local and international artists. In 2003 he moved to Canada along with his family. To the present Dima works in his studio in Toronto as a producer /engineer/ arranger and film and TV composer. During his Canadian experience he recorded and produced albums for over 70 Canadian artists including Tonia Cianciulli, Susan Cogan, Roman Smirnov, Fred Engler, Manish Raghunath, Viva trio, NARIA among others. In 2017 he became co-founder of the Maayan band along with 4 of his friends. In the band he is playing keys and percussion, sings, arranges and records. Dima along with the rest of Band's members are working on expanding its repertoire on a regular basis, currently seeking to release their first full length CD.

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Yuri Kaplunovich was born in 1971 in Ukraine in the family of artists. From childhood he studied visual art. From the early age music really fascinated him and in his teenage years he started to learn how to play guitar. From 16 to 23 he studied visual art in Art Academy in Belarus. Then at the age of 24 he immigrated to Israel where he worked for next 5 years in the art foundry, casting monuments and creating his own art sculptures, painting and drawings, exhibiting in the local art shows. When he turned 30, he moved to live in Canada where he worked for almost 20 years in art Foundry also working on his own sculptures, paintings, drawings and exhibited in the local galleries. From 2009 he became good friends with Alexey, Dima, Ernest and Dina, with whom they started playing multiple shows around the city of Toronto. In the year 2017 they decided to establish musical band Maayan, united by one idea to bring the music sensation of happiness, friendship and care for each other as one universal language for humanity that is understood by everyone. Since that time they have given many shows and virtual live shows over the internet on YouTube. Yuri plays guitar and sings.

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Ernest Itzkovich was born in 1960 in The Carpathian Mountains. As a child he studied to play on Bayan (button accordion) and piano. He immigrated to Israel at twelve where he studied accordion with Professor Izu Shteinberg (Graduate from the World Class Musical academy named after Georgio Enescu, Romania), and became the first Honorary Graduate of the Kiriat Bialik Musical Conservatorium in 1977. Playing Accordion Duets from the age of 15 with his Teacher Prof Shteinberg across Israel, Ernest performed with the Musical Query of Moetzet Poaley Haifa, being frequently invited as a guest performer by the Educational Academy of ORT Kiriat Bialik (to perform with music students exchange delegations from all over the world), taught young students accordion, piano and keyboard and in 1995 joined the Zamarin Musical Query in Zichron Yakov as a tenor singer. Ernest moved to Canada in 2001 and continued his musical career and passion by teaching accordion, keyboard and piano for young students and some of his students are Graduates from the Musical Academy of Toronto and became professional Music Teachers themselves. Since 2015, Ernest has been a founding participant with his Friends in Maayan Band. Appearing in five professional recordings with Maayan Band Friends, dozens of live performances in various music festivals and round table gatherings in the Greater Toronto Area. Ernest looks forward to continuing sharing his love & passion for music in Canada & Abroad.

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Alexey was born in Ukraine in 1972. He studied art and graphic design and started his career as a visual artist. He immigrated to Israel on his own when he was 20 following his jewish roots and beliefs. As a child he studied violin and classical guitar, but found his true passion discovering middle eastern music and the oud, the “king of all string instruments”, in particular. 12 years ago he moved to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding very rich musical scene here, attending world and classical music performances regularly, jamming with many known folk and world musicians, taking oud lessons from local masters such as Demetrios Petsalakis of Kune, Ventanas, playing on open mics all over the city venues, and becoming one of the forming members of Maayan Band. With the Maayan band he took upon himself the role of arranger, composer, string musician, conceptualizing and initiating Band development and growth. He stands behind the band's videoclips editing, social media and website creation and maintenance.

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