Mikhail Alperin has been played on NTS in shows including Devotion w/ Lafawndah, featured first on 16 April 2017. Songs played include Fly, Fly My Sadness, Lonely Bird and Her First Dance.

Misha Alperin (Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin; Ukrainian: Миха́йло Юхи́мович Альпе́рін, 7 November 1956 – 11 May 2018) was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.

Alperin was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR and educated in Khmelnytskyi, Bălți and Chișinău. In 1980, he formed one of the first jazz ensembles in Moldavian SSR. He moved to Moscow in the 1980s and founded the Moscow Art Trio with Arkady Shilkloper…