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In 2020, Theresa Pilsl was awarded the prestigious Emmerich Smola Prize of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and also received the prize of the orchestra. She was also a prizewinner at the International Singing Competiton for Baroque Opera ‘Pietro Antonio Cesti’ in 2018 and the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Berlin) the same year. Her great passion lies in lieder singing. As a fellow of the Liedakademie, she is very connected to the Heidelberger Frühling. Theresa has performed recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, the Konzerthaus Vienna and sang Haydn’s Creation with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Theresa is also a graduate of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie 2019. Parallel to singing, she studied medicine at the Charité and is a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation.
Born in Japan and raised in Canada, soprano Henna Mun is a Second year Master’s student at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London. She studies with Sarah Tynan and Caroline Dowdle. At RCM, Henna has performed the roles of Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, La Principessa in La bella dormente nel bosco, and Adina in Opera Scenes’ production of L’elisir d’amore. She has also covered the roles of Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and the Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel) and was soprano soloist for Ein Deutsches Requiem, Gloria, Messiah, Mass in C minor, and Dixit Dominus. Currently, Henna has a full scholarship and is a Basil Coleman Opera Award holder, supported by the Midori Nishiura Scholarship. She is also supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and the Drake Calleja Trust.
Korean Soprano Celine Mun is a graduate of Yonsei University and the mdw (University of Music and performing Arts Vienna), where she made her debut as Musetta in La Bohème, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro,and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She pursued her master’s degree in vocal studies with Krassmira Stoyanova and Daniela Fally. Celine has had success in a number of competitions, including Third Prize at the Lyrical Competition Salvatore Licitra (Miilan) and the International Singing Competition IMMLING (Germany). She also trained at the Hannover Staatsoper, where she performed in several opera gala concerts.
Sofie Lund has already taken part in many big productions such as Amadeus, directed by Kasper Holten, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo, both at the Royal Danish Opera. She has a preference for the contemporary repertoire, and has performed music by Hans Werner Henze, Thomas Adès and the Danish composer Ib Nørholm. In 2021, she made her debut at Den Ny Opera (Esbjerg), performing the role of Nanetta in Falstaff. In 2022, she performs Waldvogel in Siegfried at Den Ny Opera, and Death in the world premiere of the Manual composed by Louise Alenius, at The Royal Danish Opera. Sofie received her Artist Diploma from the Opera programme of the Royal College of Music (London).
After having been a member of the Opera Studio of the Opéra de Lyon, where she sang, among others, the Fire, the Princess and the Nightingale in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and of the Académie Jaroussky, Margot Genet is now part of the Opernstudio NRW (cooperation of the opera houses of Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal). Originally from Limoges, she started playing the cello before studying opera at the Haute école de musique in Geneva and then at the UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in Berlin. She has taken part in masterclasses with Hedwig Fassbender, Elène Golgevit and Ludovic Tézier. Margot is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation, where she will appear in Handel’s Agrippina (Poppea) in 2021. She sang Poussette in Manon in concert at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and was awarded the ‘Malvina and Denise Menda’ grant by the Opéra Comique. Since 2016, the duo she forms with pianist Justine Eckhaut has been performing throughout Europe.
Katrine Deleuran holds a Master of Performance from the Royal College of Music (London). She is currently studying with Rosa Mannion and Caroline Dowdle. Katrine also has two Bachelor degrees, one from The Royal Danish Academy of Music and one from the University of Copenhagen in Musicology and Gender Studies. She sang her Danish debut last year at Soeholm Opera in the role of Nedda (Pagliacci). Together with her duo partner Aleksandra Myslek, Katrine is a Leeds Lieder 2022 Young Artist. After participating in the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique this summer, she will travel to Germany to sing the role of Gertrud (Hänsel und Gretel) for the third time in 2022 and to study the part of Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) at Berlin Opera Festival as a Young Artist.
Michèle Bréant has been a soloist at the Théâtre du Châtelet (The Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, Mozart l’Egyptien, Street Scene with Emilio Sagi), Théâtre des Champs Elysées (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and the Monnaie de Bruxelles (Amour in Orphée et Eurydice). In 2015 she was soloist in Mahler’s Das klagende Lied at the Philharmonie de Paris with Jaap van Zweden. She is studying at the Felix Mendelssohn College Leipzig in the class of Carola Guber and with Regina Werner. Last summer, she sang the lead role in Hasse’s opera La serva Scaltra, in a production by La petite Bande Academy. Michèle has taken part in the Trossingen Lied Academy, and was a finalist of the 2020 Bundeswettbewerb (Oper Berlin), and the Concours Opéra Grand Avignon (2021).
Mira Alkhovik, a Saint Petersburg-born soprano, studied vocal performance at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and earned a Master of Arts with honors from the Bern Academy of the Arts in 2024. She received the Eva Kleinitz Scholarship and support from Vontobel-Stiftung, Rahn Kulturfonds, and Stiftung Lyra. She has performed Amour (Orphée et Euridice) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Biel Solothurn Opera Theatre. In 2024, she debuted as Mimì in La Bohème at Teatro Solís in Montevideo and joined the Volksoper Wien Opernstudio, where in the 2025/26 season she will perform Micaëla (Carmen), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Bubikopf (Der Kaiser von Atlantis). Mira won Third Prize and Best Contemporary Art Song Prize at the 2024 ARD International Music Competition and Second Prize and Oratorio-Lied Prize at the 61st Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona. She is also a former participant of the Verbier Festival Academy (2022) and Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie (2022).
Romanian Soprano Iulia Maria Dan’s “richly coloured, beautifully finished but still radiantly clear sound” (Sydney Morning Herald) has made her highly in demand in the most prestigious houses across Europe. This season, she makes anticipated company debuts with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Opera National de Bordeaux and looking further ahead, she will make her debut with Malmö Opera and Opera de Versailles.
Russian-American Soprano Erika Baikoff is in her second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This season at the Met, she sings the roles of Xenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (debut), conducted by Sebastian Weigle; and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other engagements this season include Marzelline in Fidelio with North Carolina Opera.
From 2018 to 2020, Erika was a member of the Lyon National Opera Studio, where her roles included Le Feu/ Princesse/ Rossignol in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Juliet in Boris Blacher’s Romeo and Juliet. She was also featured as the soprano soloist in Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Most recently, she sang the role of Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, as part of the Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique. In 2022, she will make her debut at Musikverein Graz as Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco.
Erika was a 2021 Queen Sonja International Music Competition Finalist and a 2020 Metropolitan Opera Competition Semifinalist. She is also the first prize recipient at the 2019 Helmut Deutsch International Lied Competition and the 10th Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger with her duo partner, Gary Beecher. Other awards include the 2019 Career Bridges Grant, 2018 Mondavi Young Artist Founders’ Prize, and 2013 Bouchaine Young Artist Scholarship.
Erika holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Music from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.