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Polish baritone David Roy is a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden, where his roles include Marullo (Rigoletto), Erster Priester (Die Zauberflöte), Yamadori (Madama Butterfly) and Mr Martin in Chailly’s The Bald Soprano. Recent debuts include Landgraf Rudolf (Der Wald) at Oper Wuppertal and Carmina Burana with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights include Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Royal Swedish Opera, Marco (Gianni Schicchi) in Bolzano and Germont in Bydgoszcz. He has appeared with the Polish Royal Opera as Figaro and Taddeo (L’italiana in Algeri), and performed Amonasro (Aida) and Masetto (Don Giovanni). A graduate of Hannover University and the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, David is a prizewinner at several international competitions including the Bogdan Paprocki Polish National Vocal Competition and the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition.
Tenor Michael McDermott is a third-place winner of Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Artists and first-prize winner of the Schmidt Vocal Competition and the NOA Carolyn Bailey Argento Competition. During the 2025/26 season, he made his house and South American debut at Teatro Municipal de Santiago as Rodolfo in La bohème and returned to Houston Grand Opera as a third-year Butler Studio artist, appearing in Il trittico (Young Lover) and Of Mice and Men (Carlson). Recent engagements include Rodolfo in La bohème at Houston Grand Opera, Nicias in Thaïs at Spoleto Festival USA and his concert debut with the Kansas City Symphony in Handel’s Messiah. In summer 2025, he joined the Apprentice Program for Singers at The Santa Fe Opera. He made his international debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow conducted by John Wilson. Michael holds a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and pursued graduate studies at Rice University.
Munich-based South Korean soprano Seonwoo Lee is a recent graduate of the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Opernstudio, where her roles included Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Frasquita (Carmen), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Amanda (Le Grand Macabre), the title role in Matsukaze, the High Priestess (Aida) and the First Flowermaiden (Parsifal). In the 2025/26 season, she returned to the company as Minette in Henze’s The English Cat and created the role of the First Courtier in Brett Dean’s Of One Blood. She also made her role and house debut as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Royal Danish Opera. Seonwoo Lee holds an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music, a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.
Uzbekistani bass Jasurbek Khaydarov graduated from the Gnessin Academy of Music in 2023 and joined the Bolshoi Theatre’s Young Opera Artists Program in 2022. He is the recipient of the Emerging Voice Prize at the 22nd Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino and the Young Talent Prize at the 57th International Vocal Competition. He recently made his UK debut at Wigmore Hall in a recital of Russian songs with pianist Iain Burnside. Following his participation in the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project, he joined the Dutch National Opera Studio through the 2025/26 season. His recent roles include Colline (La bohème) at the Tiroler Festspiele, the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly) at the Baden-Baden Osterfestspiele and with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko, as well as Shelkalov (Boris Godunov) and Mozart’s Requiem in Amsterdam. Future engagements include Lodovico (Otello) and Alidoro (La Cenerentola).
Chinese lyric baritone Yu He began his vocal studies with Yan Chen and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in opera at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where he studies with Lothar Odinius. He has taken part in masterclasses with John Norris, Neil Shicoff, Lucas Meachem and Christiane Libor. His stage appearances include Marcello (La bohème), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Professor Huber in Udo Zimmermann’s Die weiße Rose. In 2024 and 2025, he performed at Theater Meißen. He was awarded a prize at the Hilde Zadek Singing Competition in 2025 and received the Wagner Stipendium in 2026. Recent engagements have included Ändere die Welt!, Dialogues des Carmélites and Madama Butterfly.
British tenor Sebastian Hill studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Pollard. A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, he is supported by the H R Taylor Trust and the Drake Calleja Trust. In 2025, he joined the Opera Holland Park Young Artists scheme and also performed with the Glyndebourne Chorus. He is a prizewinner of both the London Bach Society Competition and the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition. Recent engagements include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings at the Barbican, performances at Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists, and a lecture-recital with Graham Johnson at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
French mezzo-soprano Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, born in Paris, began her musical training at six, first studying harpsichord before turning to voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she graduated with a Master’s degree with Great Distinction in 2022. She was a member of La Monnaie’s MM Academy, working with conductors including Evelino Pidò, Kazushi Ōno and Alain Altinoglu, and is currently an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. A prizewinner in several Belgian competitions, she made her stage debut in John Adams’ I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky. Her recent appearances include Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), and performances at La Monnaie, Opéra de Metz and Bozar. Highlights include the solo opera Goud! and the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander. Upcoming engagements include L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Elektra, Medusa and La Cenerentola.
Katherine Hibbs is a young pianist based in New York and a student at the Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she studies with Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone. She previously trained at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore with Albert Tiu. Having lived in the United States, Europe and Asia, her musical development reflects a rich diversity of cultural influences. She has performed internationally at renowned venues including Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, Chopin’s Birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard’s Paul Hall and the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. She has also appeared as a concerto soloist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. A First Prize winner of the Jeune Chopin International Piano Competition, Katherine Hibbs has been named a Future Steinway Young Artist, a formal title to be conferred upon reaching the required age.
Semin Yim was born in South Korea in 2002. Since 2024, he has studied at the Fundación BBVA Viola Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music, first with Nobuko Imai and currently with Lawrence Power. He has received a scholarship from Fundación Albéniz. Semin made his debut with the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra and was recognised by Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Sports for his talent and commitment after winning the Seong-Jeong Music Competition. In 2025, he won 4th Prize at the 1st Tenerife International Viola Competition in Spain. In chamber music, he is a member of the Seoul- and New York-based group Sejong Soloists. He has also participated in numerous music festivals, performing alongside musicians including the Schumann Quartet, Nobuko Imai, Sadao Harada, Mathieu Herzog and Mihaela Martin.
Violist Alessandra Yang has collaborated with members of the Belcea, Vermeer and Chiara quartets and participated in international masterclasses with Tabea Zimmermann, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Lars Anders Tomter and Thomas Riebl. In November 2025, she was awarded the Chamber Music Prize at the Concours de Genève International Viola Competition, and in June 2025 won her conservatory’s concerto competition for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Alessandra currently studies at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) under Jennifer Stumm, having previously studied at Juilliard Pre-College with Hsin-Yun Huang and Carol Rodland. She performs on a 2017 viola built by luthier Hiroshi Iizuka near her native Philadelphia, as well as on an 1801 Michael Stadlmann viola d’amore made in Vienna.