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Aoqi Deng received his undergraduate and graduate education in Tonmeister programmes at the Communication University of China and McGill University, respectively. During his undergraduate studies, he won first prize in the Chinese Student Recording Competition for two consecutive years. In 2024, he was awarded a bronze medal in the AES Student Recording Competition in Madrid. Aoqi focuses on music recording, particularly in the field of classical music. He has worked as an assistant recording engineer at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China and, since 2023, has served as a concert recording engineer at McGill University’s music production department. He also teaches recording and mixing, and has led workshops as an instructor at the Tsinghua University High School Summer Music Camp.
Henry Armfield is completing his final year of the Audio Sciences Master’s programme at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where he is the first student to hold the department’s head Graduate Assistantship for two consecutive years. A self-taught oboist, he earned his Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance and Recording Arts from Peabody in 2024, studying with Nick Stovall, principal oboist of the National Symphony Orchestra. He is a recipient of the Evergreen House Foundation Scholarship and, in 2023, represented Peabody in the Audio Engineering Society’s Student Recording Competition, earning a ‘Silver’ award for his recording of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. His recording interests span classical and contemporary genres, with a focus on live acoustic performance. Henry is passionate about concert production and brings a strong work ethic and commitment to musicality to his work as a young audio engineer.
Sophie Trobos is an Austrian violinist and the founder and director of the inn.wien ensemble. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Christian Altenburger and completed an Erasmus exchange at the CNSMD Lyon with Marianne Piketty. Sophie has served as concertmaster with orchestras including the Austrian Jeunesse Orchestra and the Webern Symphony Orchestra. She regularly performs in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, and has collaborated in chamber music with artists such as Reinhard Latzko, Christian Altenburger, and Jasminka Stancul. Alongside her performance career, she is involved in artistic management and production, including roles with the LOISIARTE Festival and the Kufstein Masterclass, which she founded.
British Franco-Chinese violinist Laure Chan has performed at major venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, recently making solo debuts with the BBC Concert Orchestra and at the Berlin Philharmonie. A passionate composer, she blends her classical background with diverse styles and cultures, releasing recordings of both the standard repertoire and original music. Named a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star and featured on Classic FM’s 30 Under 30, Laure has won international prizes in Paris, Berlin, and New York, as well as the Oxford Philharmonic Music Director’s Award and first prizes at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music. She earned her Bachelor, Master, and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, studying with Itzhak Rashkovsky, Radu Blidar, and Gabrielle Lester. Laure has received mentorship from Maxim Vengerov, Nicola Benedetti, Isabelle van Keulen, and Pinchas Zukerman.
British bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a Bicentenary Scholar, studying with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Operatic engagements have included Sciarrone (Tosca), and Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) for English National Opera where he was a Harewood Artist; Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Dorset Opera Festival; Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Jupiter (Platée) for Garsington Opera. He made his international debut at Deutsche Oper, Berlin, singing Second Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) and Pietro (Simon Boccanegra).
He is a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Ballet and Opera, London. His roles this season include Marquis d’Obigny (La Traviata), Wagner (Faust), Mandarin (Turandot) and Angelotti (Tosca).
Ossian Huskinson’s continuing professional development is supported by Mascarade Opera.
Edward Birchinall is a member of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studies with Russell Smythe. His roles there include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Don Iñigo Gomez (L’heure espagnole). A keen recitalist, he has performed across the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings, where he is a Britten Pears Scholar for the 2024/25 season. His prizes include First Prize at the Edinburgh University Tovey Memorial Competition, the Anne Wyburd Prize for Lieder, and Third Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards. Edward is grateful to be supported by the Derek Butler Scholarship, Help Musicians UK, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. This summer, he joins the Glyndebourne Chorus and will cover the role of Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Da Ponte Festival in Vittorio Veneto.
Maksim Andreenkov made his operatic debut in 2015 as Petrus in Carl Orff’s Der Mond at the Pokrovsky Opera in Moscow. In 2018, he entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and began performing on the chamber stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2020, he joined the Young Artist Program at Helikon Opera in Moscow, where he appeared as Escamillo (Carmen) and Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera).
Since 2022, he has been based in Germany, where he made his debut as Sonora in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at Theater Hagen. In 2023 and 2024, he performed the title role in Il Re Teodoro di Venezia and Don Artabano in Cimarosa’s Le Trame deluse at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT). He also performed as Iarbe in Piccini’s Didon at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival in 2024.
Baritone Yeongtaek Yang is in his first year with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the Met’s 2024/25 season, he made his company debut as Marullo (Rigoletto) and appeared as the Second Nazarene (Salome). Recent engagements include covering Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) and the title role in Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, and performing Gianni Schicchi at the Chautauqua Institution. His previous roles include the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Des Grieux (Le Portrait de Manon) at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as Don Giovanni at Seoul National University. Yeongtaek won First Prize in both the 2023 Opera Index Competition and the 2024 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, and Second Prize in the 2024 Zachary Competition in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Seoul National University and the Manhattan School of Music.
Russian baritone Anton Beliaev, a member of the Opera Studio of the Semperoper Dresden, is already performing on some of Europe’s leading opera stages. At the Semperoper, his roles include Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La bohème), and Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus). Recent and upcoming engagements include La finta giardiniera at Theater an der Wien, Lucia di Lammermoor at Theater Basel, L’elisir d’amore at the Bregenzer Festspiele, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival. In summer 2025, he performed the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Verbier Festival as part of the Academy’s Atelier Lyrique.
Georgian tenor Giorgi Guliashvili began his studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory and made his debut in 2019 as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La Traviata). He joined the Academy of Teatro di San Carlo in 2021, training for two years with Mariella Devia. In 2022, he debuted in Italy as Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) at Teatro di San Carlo and appeared in Paisiello’s Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Giorgi has performed under Riccardo Frizza as Signor Hervey in Anna Bolena, and as Flavio in Norma. In 2024, he joined San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, singing excerpts from Faust, Iolanta, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Giorgi recently won first prize at the Gerda Lissner Competition and performed Vaudémont (Iolanta) at the Yale School of Music in 2025, completing his postgraduate studies at Yale University.
He will be joining the Jette Parker Artists Program starting next season.