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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. In the 2025/26 season, his engagements include Ändere die Welt!, Dialogues des Carmélites, and Madama Butterfly.
Sebastian is currently studying on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studies with David Pollard. He is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, and is supported by the H R Taylor Trust and the Drake Calleja Trust.
He was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist in 2025 and has performed with the Glyndebourne Chorus.
A prizewinner of the London Bach Society Competition and the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition, his recent engagements include Britten’s Serenade at the Barbican, appearances 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 under Professor 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 2002 in South Korea. Since 2024, he has studied at the Fundación BBVA Viola Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music, first with Professor Nobuko Imai and currently with Professor Lawrence Power. He has received a scholarship from Fundación Albéniz.
He made his debut with the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra and was recognized by Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Sports for his talent and commitment by winning the Seong-Jeong Music Competition. In 2025, he won 4th prize at the 1st Tenerife International Viola Competition in Tenerife, Spain.
In chamber music, he is a member of the Seoul–New York–based group Sejong Solists. He has also participated in numerous music festivals, performing alongside renowned musicians such as the Schumann Quartet, Nobuko Imai, Sadao Harada, Mathieu Herzog, and Mihaela Martin.
Alessandra Yang is a violist who 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, she 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.
Mikołaj Woźniak is a Polish pianist, born in 2003 in Zielona Góra. He studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel under Professor Claudio Martínez-Mehner and has won numerous prizes at national and international piano competitions.
He has collaborated with artists such as Kirill Gerstein, Robert Levin, and Andreas Staier. His engagement with contemporary music has been shaped through work with György Kurtág and masterclasses with Thomas Adès, under whose guidance he continues to deepen his understanding of contemporary repertoire.
Mikołaj adapts his interpretations to each musical context and performance space, moving with equal ease between solo and chamber repertoire, from Baroque to contemporary music. Highlights of his upcoming projects include György Kurtág’s Double Concerto Op. 27/2, planned for 2026 under the direction of Heinz Holliger.
Yanan Wang is a Chinese violist who began her studies at the Middle School of the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 2018, she moved to Europe and earned her Bachelor’s degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under William Coleman. She is currently pursuing a Master’s at the University of Music and Theatre Munich with Hariolf Schlichtig.
Yanan has performed as a soloist with the University Orchestra Salzburg, including Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto KV.622 arranged for viola, and won Second Prize at the 2025 International Paul Hindemith Viola Competition in Munich. She has attended masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Lars Anders Tomter, Antoine Tamestit, and Lawrence Power. A Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Munich scholarship holder, she has received special prizes from Philharmonie Baden-Baden and Arosa Masterclass, was a member of the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy Leipzig, and began her trial as Assistant Principal Viola with the Munich Radio Orchestra in 2025.
Born in 2004 in Valencia, Carlos Vidal is a cellist currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Julian Steckel. He studied in Valencia, Barcelona, and Madrid with Iñaki Etxepare, Salvador Bolón, María Casado, and Asier Polo, and in February 2020 joined Jérôme Pernoo and Edgar Moreau’s class at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique de Paris.
Carlos has won numerous international competitions, including the Kódaly International Competition, the Permanent Competition of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain, the Pau Casals International Prize, and the Johannes Brahms International Competition. In October 2022, he received the Prince of Hesse Award at the prestigious Kronberg Academy. He has performed across most European countries and at major festivals, including the Casals Festival, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
Arina Verevkina, 25, is a lyrical coloratura soprano from the Altai Republic in Siberia, Russia. She graduated in 2022 from the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory in Anastasia Bakastova’s class and is now a fourth-year student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Ekaterina Skusnichenko.
Arina has won several Russian and international vocal competitions, including in Finland, Belgium, Sweden, and France. In 2024, she attended a masterclass with Teodor Currentzis and performed the role of Lesovichka in A. Dvorak’s Rusalka under conductor Dmitri Jurowski. In April 2025, she appeared with the MusicAeterna Choir, and later that year joined the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda” to participate in the Rossini Opera Festival production of Il viaggio a Reims.