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London-Irish tenor Hugo Brady, winner of the 2022 Junior Kathleen Ferrier Competition, studies at the Royal College of Music with Russell Smythe as the Victor and Lilian Hochhauser Scholar. He is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and is a Samling Artist and an Oxford Song Young Artist. Hugo has appeared with Nevill Holt Opera and the Manchester Camerata, performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, and appeared at the Barbican Hall with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, most recently as Belfiore in La Finta Giardiniera. He is also an Associate Artist of The Mozartists. Hugo has participated in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Bernarda Fink, Roderick Williams, and Véronique Gens. In the 2024/25 season, he debuts at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and performs extensively at Oxford Lieder Festival.
A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (First-Class Honours), and the Royal College of Music (Master’s of Music with Distinction), she is an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist 2024/2026, a Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star and a Britten Pears Young Artist.
Her Awards include the Loveday Song Prize at the 2025 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, The Nigel Beale First Prize and Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize at the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year and First Prize and Best Duo Prize with Archie Bonham at the 2024 Ashburnham English Song Competition.
She is a former 2023/24 Opera Holland Park Young Artist, where she sang Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia, and joins the 2025 Verbier Festival to sing La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi.
During her first season at The Royal Opera House, she will sing Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Flora Bervoix La traviata on the Main Stage, as well as Irina in Elena Langer’s Four Sisters and Julia in Elizabeth Maconchy’s The Departure in The Linbury Theatre.
Mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy recently graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM), where she studied with Amanda Roocroft and Caroline Dowdle. She is currently a member of the Opernstudio at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Annabel has been a Young Artist with Opera Prelude, Samling Institute, Britten Pears Arts, and Glyndebourne’s Jerwood scheme. At Garsington Opera, she performed Juno (Platée) and covered Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Minsk Woman (Flight), and L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges) at RCM, and covering Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Glyndebourne. Recent awards include second prize at the IVC Opera & Oratorio Competition, the Singers’ Prize at the ROSL Music Competition, and Press & Junior Jury Prizes at the IVC LiedDuo Competition.
Winner of the 70th Kathleen Ferrier awards, contralto Lily Mo Browne currently studies at the Royal College of Music in London under Ben Johnson and Caroline Dowdle, supported by the Drake Calleja Trust as well as the Robert Lancaster and Helen Majorie Tonks scholarships. She has achieved notable success in competitions, placing first at the Somerset Song Prize and the AESS Senior Song Prize, second in the RCM English Song Final, and third in both the Junior Ferrier competition and the RCM Schumann Competition. Operatic roles include Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Old Lady (Candide), Zweite Dame and Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), and La Regina (La bella dormente nel bosco). Lily has also performed as a concert soloist in Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Martyn Brabbins and the RCM Symphony Orchestra, and in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony with the Hounslow Symphony Orchestra.
Maryam Wocial is a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music where she is the Poppy Holden scholar supported by the Cuthbert Smith scholarship. She is generously supported by the H R Taylor Trust, the Munster Trust, and is a Josephine Baker Trust artist. In 2024, she made her debut as a soloist with professional ensembles including The Mozartists, Instruments of Time and Truth, and she is the inaugural vocalist on The English Concert’s early careers fellowship programme for 2024–25. At the Britten Theatre, Maryam has performed the role of Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Ilia (Idomeneo), and Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in opera scenes. Last summer, she debuted the role of Anastasia Romanov in the world premiere of Jasmine Morris’s Church on the Blood, a contemporary opera produced in collaboration with Tête à Tête Opera. As a concert soloist, Maryam has performed at prestigious venues including the Sheldonian Theatre, the Cadogan Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. She recently won the 2nd Prize at the International Handel Singing Competition in London.
Katrīna Paula Felsberga made her debut as Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Latvian National Opera in the 2024–25 season. She has also performed Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and was named ‘Young Artist of the Year’ at the 2024 Latvian Great Music Awards. A dedicated recitalist, she has appeared at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin with Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau, and participated in the Heidelberger Frühling Liedfestival and the Kissinger Sommer’s LiederWerkstatt. Highlights of 2024 include a solo recital at Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne and a performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin with organist Iveta Apkalna. She is also active in contemporary music and has worked with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble l’Itinéraire.
Tamara Bounazou est une soprano lyrique franco-algérienne aussi à l’aise sur la scène lyrique que théâtrale. Elle a interprété Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) sous la direction de Barbara Hannigan et Eurydice (Orphée aux Enfers) sous la direction de Marc Minkowski. À l’Opéra National de Paris, elle a chanté Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) et L’Amour (Platée), et a joué le rôle de Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Passionnée de poésie et de musique de chambre, elle remporte le premier prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon en 2019 avec la pianiste Anna Giorgi. Récitaliste fréquente, elle s’est produite dans des salles telles que le Wigmore Hall de Londres. Parmi ses engagements à venir, citons le rôle-titre d’Iphigénie en Tauride de Gluck à l’Opéra-Comique de Paris, sous la direction de Louis Langrée et mis en scène par Wajdi Mouawad.
Yo Kitamura was born in Japan in 2004. He studies with Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin and with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the Toho Gakuen College of Music, where he is a scholarship recipient. In 2024, he won first prize at the George Enescu International Competition and the Pablo Casals International Award. He also won first prize at the Johannes Brahms International Competition, second prize at the 2022 Khachaturian International Competition, and unanimously received first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians in 2017. He made his orchestral debut at the age of nine, his recital debut at ten, and performed as a soloist at the Suntory Hall at the age of eleven. Yo has participated three times in the Kronberg Academy, including as a scholarship recipient in 2022. He has also attended masterclasses with renowned cellists such as Wolfgang Boettcher, David Geringas, Philippe Muller, Mischa Maisky and Steven Isserlis.
Jinseok Jeong was born in Budapest to a Korean family and began playing the cello at the age of five. At 11, he was admitted to the young talents program at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with professors György Déri and István Varga. During these years, he won prizes at several international competitions, including the Antonio Janigro, David Popper, and Jan Vychtil competitions.
Italian-Portuguese cellist Luis Dias Canali grew up in Gran Canaria. He began playing the cello at the age of four with Alba Page in Las Palmas, before studying at the Feuermann Konservatorium in Kronberg, then at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he has been training with Henri Demarquette since 2021. He performs regularly in Europe, notably in Greece, Denmark, France, Portugal, and Germany, with solo appearances alongside the Orquesta IBF, the Sorbisches-National-Ensemble, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. In 2024, he participated in the Kronberg Cello Masterclasses and is currently continuing his studies with Frans Helmerson at the Stauffer Academy (2024/25 season). Joint winner of the 2nd prize and the AENA Special Prize at the Pablo Casals International Award 2024, he also won seven first prizes in the International Bach Festival, Stars-at-Tenerife, and Vatelot-Rampal competitions. He plays a cello by Thomas Bertrand.