Jazz pianist and composer Tim Chernikoff has been making his mark in the New York jazz scene with a style that has stood out to musicians and listeners alike. His approach to music has been to find his own musical identity through dialogue with the jazz traditions of bebop and swing while exploring personal connections to the music, through a process of purposeful discovery on the piano and composition. Described by jazz performer Dan Haerle as “extremely inventive in his Composition and Improvisation”, his works expand upon the progressive pallet of jazz to express ideas and personal revelations, and their artistic sparks are further illuminated through his collaborative ventures.
     In his budding career, the up-and-coming artist has had experiences across the US performing with world class musicians— in the Bay Area California, Dallas Fort Worth Texas, and New York City.  Educated in the West Coast (Stanford Jazz Workshop), Southwest (North Texas) and East Coast (Manhattan School of Music) regions of the United States, Chernikoff has had a diversity of educational and professional experiences. 
     As a composer, Chernikoff draws influence from a range of  influences from Maurice Ravel and Thelonious Monk to Cecil Taylor and Frank Zappa, Chernikoff appeals to every attitude and emotion that crosses his field of view, with material ranging from wistful and elegant to angry, disillusioned and even crass.  The resulting work in his trio work presents an adventurous musical climate that promises to douse the listener in splashes of catharsis and rumination.            About his compositional style he says “if I didn’t appeal to the quiet serenity and bombastic crassness that I observed in my daily life, then I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.”
     Off the wake of his 2021 Debut release “Pieces of Sanity”, Chernikoff is working towards a new album to be release in late 2025, and will be premiering works in progress at his shows in 2025.

Voted Best Drag Queen 2011 by SF Weekly's Readers' Poll and the reigning Miss Blow Up USA, Honey Mahogany is an international drag performer and budding recording artist. Honey was selected for the 2011 Hot Pink List of "queers to watch" by the SanFrancisco Bay Guardian and was the cover girl for the Guardian's 2011 Queer Issue. In 2010 Honey's premier single, a cover of Adele’s "Hometown Glory,” was chosen as one of the Best Cover Songs of the Year by Limelight (a lead song licensing company). Honey's self-written single, a funk-inspired anthem called "It's Honey" was released in December 2012. Honey’s resume also includes several theatrical productions such as: Dirty Little Showtunes, Oprah: The Dragsical (in which she held the title role), Halloween: The Ballad of Michelle Meyers, and the collaborative drag/performance art show Work MORE! 
Honey has just returned from staging a successful show in the UK for the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival (a part of the Cultural Olympiad) in Manchester England. The work was entitled trixxie carr: The Right to Rule and revolved around the theme of success and failure.
In January 2013, Honey Mahogany will compete on the fifth season of the wildly popular reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race becoming the FIRST EVER San Franciscan drag queen to appear on the show.
Honey is currently working on her debut EP. 

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