Our Team
Robert Kinkel
Founder/Producer
Robert Kinkel is an award-winning music producer and composer best known for his role as co-creator and musical director of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He co-wrote their two hit multi-platinum selling songs Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24), and Wizards in Winter resulting in close to ten million sales. In the past thirty years, Bob has worked with artists such as Five for Fighting, The Who, Aerosmith, Genesis, and more. He studied at Columbia University and Hamilton College and has received honors and awards from Williamsville Education Foundation and Buffalo Music Hall of Fame.
Dina Fanai
Producer/Vocalist
Dina Fanai is an award-winning recording artist, songwriter, producer, and activist. Dina has performed, produced, arranged, and written for artists including Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Foreigner, Jackie Evancho, II Volo, Tina Turner “BEYOND” Project, and Rocktopia on Broadway. She has received grants and awards from The Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Endowment for the Arts has led tours and educational programs in the United States and Southeast Asia. Through her company, One Vision Music, and her new platform Power of Music Global, she continues to produce concerts and recordings supporting a wide variety of causes including people with disabilities, mental health awareness, women’s empowerment and equality, LGBT, homelessness among children, climate change, and animal rights.
Linds Cadwell
Engineer
Linds Cadwell is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and audio engineer currently based at Steller Productions. Linds graduated from Hamilton College in 2020 studying mathematics, engineering, and music and went on to live in New York City as the engineer for Bob Kinkel. Since then, Linds has been able to work with the engineers for bands such as KISS, The Who, Sonic Youth, Marcus Miller, Miles Davis, and more. He also records his own projects with musicians, bands, and creatives. Linds plans on building his own recording studio in the years to come — a space where musicians can live, write music in, and record all in the same space like music used to be created.