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Sam Hird studies at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London for a Master of Performance with baritone Peter Savidge. Recent engagements include baritone soloist in a special RCM concert to celebrate the life of composer Joseph Horovitz, L’Ambasciatore in Respighi’s opera La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, and Jesus in Bach’s St John Passion with Milton Keynes Chorale. Previous experience includes baritone solo in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony conducted by Jonathan Willcocks, London Song Festival masterclass with Sir Thomas Allen, a Winter’s Night Recital of songs by Schubert, Britten and Fauré for baritone and guitar at All Saint’s Church (York), and baritone solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of St John’s at Dorchester Abbey conducted by John Lubbock. Sam is a Richard Silver Scholar and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.
Felix is a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. Next season he will be appearing in several productions at the Zurich Opera House, most notably as Phileas Fogg in the world premiere of Around the World in 80 Days by Jonathan Dove.
Felix is a Samling Artist and a National Opera Studio Young Artist 2022/23. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
He was a member of the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival 2023, where he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer. In January 2024, he participated in the Carnegie Hall SongStudio under the patronage of Renée Fleming.
Felix is a passionate Lieder singer and regularly performs in recitals in the UK, France, and Switzerland with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski. He made his US debut performing Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat at the Boston Text and Tone Festival.
Baritone Henry Griffin is pursuing his bachelor’s in Classical Voice at the Manhattan School of Music with Marlena Malas. His recent roles include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Castleton Festival, covering the role of the Commentator in Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg at the Chautauqua Opera Company in 2021 and returning in 2022 to sing the role of The Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. This year, he sings Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Manhattan School of Music and will be the inaugural Voice Fellow at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, USA.
Singer and conductor, tenor and baritone, eclectic artist with more than 150 roles, acclaimed by the public on stages all over the world.
Defined Renaissance man, awarded with honorary titles and prizes also for his humanitarian commitment.
Promoter of young talents and founder of Operalia. Worldwide Ambassador of Spanish Culture and Zarzuela.
Extraordinarily versatile, he has been general director and promoter of opera with Carreras and Pavarotti.
Performer of world premieres of operas, starred in opera movies, pioneer of crossover and winner of 12 Grammy Awards.
Conductor with more than 600 performances.
His career has continued for more than half a century and for this he has been celebrated at the Operas of New York, Vienna, Verona, Milan and Buenos Aires.
German baritone Dennis Chmelensky has been praised for his “carrying power as well as subtle sensitivity to sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer). He is a former member of the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program and an alumus of the Curtis Institute of Music. This season, he made his debut at the Philips Collection with Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and workshopped the role of Sensor in Jeanine Tesori’s new opera Grounded that was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Recent highlights include appearances with Opera for Peace and his debut as Don Giovanni in a Curtis / Opera Philadelphia co-production under the baton of Karina Canellakis. A devoted recitalist, Dennis has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, in venues such as the National Gallery of Art and at Konzerthaus Berlin. He was a National Semifinalist of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and is the recipient of numerous awards. His debut album, DENNIS, was released by Sony Music.
Daniel Barrett is a baritone from Glasgow who is in his first year on the master’s course at the Royal College of Music and studies with Russell Smythe. Daniel is a Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholar and a Drake Calleja Trust Scholar, as well as an associate artist with the Josephine Baker Trust. He previously studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, winning and placing in multiple competitions and graduating with a First class honours degree. This year, Daniel won First Prize at the Royal College Music (RCM) Lieder Competition. He recently appeared as baritone soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, performed by the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, under the direction of Thomas Zehetmair.
French-Canadian baritone Olivier Bergeron completed his studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 2017. The same year, he sang the title role in La morte d’Orfeo at the Festival de Royaumont under Christophe Rousset. He made his professional debut the following season in Dido and Aeneas with Les Talens Lyriques at the Festival de musique de Menton. Recent performances include Il mondo alla roversa at the Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra de Reims and the Philharmonie de Paris, Die stumme Serenade with Opera Fuoco and Les Pêcheurs de perles at the Festival d’Opéra de Québec. In recital, he made his debut at the Wigmore Hall and at Salle Cortot during the 2019/2020 season after taking part in the French Song Exchange under the tutelage of François Le Roux and Dame Felicity Lott. Olivier’s projects include a recital at the Petit Palais in Paris and a residency around Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin at the Musée d’art de Joliette, in Quebec. He receives generous support from the Jeunesses Musicales Canada Foundation and the Art Song Foundation of Canada.
South Korean baritone Edward Kim is currently pursuing his Master of Performance in Royal College of Music with Professor Janis Kelly. He made his operatic debut as Conte in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Berlin Opera Academy in 2019. Equally at home with Oratorio and art song, Edward has sung solos in Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and was also selected to participate in a recital of Schumann’s Myrthen by Roger Vignoles. He has had success in several competitions, clinching the top prizes in Seoul Music Competition, Osaka International Music Competition, Estonia International Competition and Concert Artists International Competition in New York. Edward is supported by the Sheila Saam Memorial and Drake Calleja Trust.
Baritone Alexander York, from Wisconsin, begins his second season in the Académie of the Opéra national de Paris, where he will be seen in Don Carlo as a Flemish Deputy and in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges as L’Horloge comtoise and Le chat. Last season, he sang Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. York recently made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene Krug in the role of the Bedienter. In 2017, he sang the role of James Ramsey in the world premiere of Zesses Seglias’ To the Lighthouse at the Bregenz Festival. York made his European debut as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at Theater Augsburg in 2016 ; also in Augsburg, York played Angelotti in Tosca, the Captain in Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus, and Weickmann/Fuhrmann in Hans Thomalla’s Kaspar Hauser. Equally at home on the concert stage, York has performed with the Münchener Rundfunkorchester, Heidelberger Symphoniker, and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich. York was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Research Grant to study Lied in Munich in 2016, and upon joining the Académie in Paris, he received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant.
Stephen Marsh is the 2018 recipient of the Paulette Bisley and Eleanor Blakemore Opera Scholarships with Melba Opera Trust. He made his professional debut in Victorian Opera’s Sleeping Beauty in 2017 and was also a developing artist, performing in Hansel and Gretel, Heroes and Villains (a gala concert) and Gordon Kerry’s The Snow Queen. Stephen was a member of the Opera Scholars Australia program for 6 years. Other companies he has performed with are Melbourne Opera (2012 – 2017 seasons), Melbourne Lyric Opera and Shoestring Opera Company. He has received multiple scholarships including the Barbara Pigdon Memorial, the Betty Amsden AO Scholarship ‘Opera Scholar of the Year’ for the Australian Music Events 2016/17 season and the John Duncan scholarship.