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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]