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Emma Jüngling is a Swiss-French mezzo-soprano based in London. She is the laureate of numerous prizes such as the Friedl Wald Prize for young Swiss singers, the Richard Wagner Prize of the Geneva Wagner Society in 2017, the Alice Gamble Prize, amongst others. She has also attended the Verbier Festival Academy 2022 as Artist of Promise.
The mezzo-soprano studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London as well as at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne. She currently continues her training with Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet and Cathy Pope.
This year, Emma made her debut as Carmen under the guidance of Ludovic Tézier in Nancy (France) as part of his Young Artist production. Her operatic career also includes Natacha and Soeur Thérèse (L’Aube Rouge), La Suora Zelatrice (Suor Angelica) and Sicorace (La Tempesta). The young mezzo has worked with companies such as English Touring Opera, Opéra de Lausanne (Switzerland), Wexford Festival Opera and The Grange Festival.
On the concert stage, Emma was heard as a soloist in Haendel’s Israel in Egypt under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and in Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. Her oratorio repertoire also includes Scarlatti’s and Haendel’s Dixit Dominus, Dvorak’s Requiem, L’Oratorio de Noël by Saint-Saëns and Mozart’s Requiem.
Recently, she sang the alto solo in Golgotha by Frank Martin at the prestigious Victoria Hall in Geneva.
After having been a member of the Opera Studio of the Opéra de Lyon, where she sang, among others, the Fire, the Princess and the Nightingale in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and of the Académie Jaroussky, Margot Genet is now part of the Opernstudio NRW (cooperation of the opera houses of Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal). Originally from Limoges, she started playing the cello before studying opera at the Haute école de musique in Geneva and then at the UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in Berlin. She has taken part in masterclasses with Hedwig Fassbender, Elène Golgevit and Ludovic Tézier. Margot is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation, where she will appear in Handel’s Agrippina (Poppea) in 2021. She sang Poussette in Manon in concert at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and was awarded the ‘Malvina and Denise Menda’ grant by the Opéra Comique. Since 2016, the duo she forms with pianist Justine Eckhaut has been performing throughout Europe.
Canadian mezzo-soprano Kady Evanyshyn is a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Hamburg, where her roles include Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), 2. Magd (Elektra), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Laura (Luisa Miller), and Glascha (Katja Kabanova). A 2020 participant of Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall, Kady’s broad repertoire ranges from the music of Purcell and Rameau to numerous world premieres. Her recent concert performances include: J.S. Bach’s Ich habe genug, conducted by Simone Dinnerstein, Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, and the world premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s Drei Grabschriften for mezzo-soprano and piano. Kady is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy, and has received prizes from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Winnipeg Music Festival. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Edith Wiens.
Katrine Deleuran holds a Master of Performance from the Royal College of Music (London). She is currently studying with Rosa Mannion and Caroline Dowdle. Katrine also has two Bachelor degrees, one from The Royal Danish Academy of Music and one from the University of Copenhagen in Musicology and Gender Studies. She sang her Danish debut last year at Soeholm Opera in the role of Nedda (Pagliacci). Together with her duo partner Aleksandra Myslek, Katrine is a Leeds Lieder 2022 Young Artist. After participating in the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique this summer, she will travel to Germany to sing the role of Gertrud (Hänsel und Gretel) for the third time in 2022 and to study the part of Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) at Berlin Opera Festival as a Young Artist.
Michèle Bréant has been a soloist at the Théâtre du Châtelet (The Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, Mozart l’Egyptien, Street Scene with Emilio Sagi), Théâtre des Champs Elysées (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and the Monnaie de Bruxelles (Amour in Orphée et Eurydice). In 2015 she was soloist in Mahler’s Das klagende Lied at the Philharmonie de Paris with Jaap van Zweden. She is studying at the Felix Mendelssohn College Leipzig in the class of Carola Guber and with Regina Werner. Last summer, she sang the lead role in Hasse’s opera La serva Scaltra, in a production by La petite Bande Academy. Michèle has taken part in the Trossingen Lied Academy, and was a finalist of the 2020 Bundeswettbewerb (Oper Berlin), and the Concours Opéra Grand Avignon (2021).
Mira Alkhovik, a Saint Petersburg-born soprano, studied vocal performance at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and earned a Master of Arts with honors from the Bern Academy of the Arts in 2024. She received the Eva Kleinitz Scholarship and support from Vontobel-Stiftung, Rahn Kulturfonds, and Stiftung Lyra. She has performed Amour (Orphée et Euridice) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Biel Solothurn Opera Theatre. In 2024, she debuted as Mimì in La Bohème at Teatro Solís in Montevideo and joined the Volksoper Wien Opernstudio, where in the 2025/26 season she will perform Micaëla (Carmen), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Bubikopf (Der Kaiser von Atlantis). Mira won Third Prize and Best Contemporary Art Song Prize at the 2024 ARD International Music Competition and Second Prize and Oratorio-Lied Prize at the 61st Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona. She is also a former participant of the Verbier Festival Academy (2022) and Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie (2022).
Revelation ADAMI Classique 2021, Stéphanie Huang started playing the cello at a very young age with her mother. In November 2008, she won the first prize at the Dexia Competition. At the age of 12, she made her debut at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. In July 2015, she received the Grand Prize at the Suggia International Cello Competition in Porto. In October 2021, she won the first prize at the Societa Umanitaria International Competition in Milan. She is laureate of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition 2022 and laureate of SPES, Meyer, Kriegelstein, and SAFRAN Foundations, and has been selected for the 2019-2020 Jaroussky Academy, the prestigious 2019 Seiji Ozawa International Academy, and the Villecroze Music Academy with Frans Helmerson. She was awarded the Patrick Petit Excellence Scholarship in October 2020.
Stéphanie Huang regularly performs the concerto repertoire (Haydn, Dvorák, Elgar, Tchaikovsky…) with various orchestras (Kamerfilharmonie van Vlaanderen, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto /Casa da Musica…) under the direction of conductors like M. Sanderling, C. Izcaray, V. Mardirossian … She also gives recitals and appears as a chamber musician at various national and international festivals (Festival des Midis-Minimes-Belgium, Festival Seiji Ozawa in Matsumoto-Japan, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo-Monaco, Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Schiermonnikoog Netherlands, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel Festival…).
As a passionate chamber musician, Stéphanie has collaborated with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Gary Hoffman, Renaud Capuçon, Claire Désert, Laurent Korcia… She recently performed at the ADAMI Festival in Villefavard, the Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron, the Musicorum in Brussels, the Festival Jeunes Talents (Paris), the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels… In January 2022, she was invited by French violinist Renaud Capuçon in the TV show – L’Essentiel chez Labro -, and was interviewed by Musiq3/RTBF as one of the 7 Artists of the Belgian Music Week. She studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel in the class of Jeroen Reuling and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris for her Master’s degree and her Artist’s Diploma in the class of Marc Coppey as well as in the class of Emmanuelle Bertrand for her Master’s degree in chamber music. Since September 2020, she is Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, where she studies with Gary Hoffman.
She plays on a 1742 Francesco Stradivarius cello generously lent by the Guttman Collection.
Israeli cellist Nahar Eliaz internationally distinguished herself by winning First Prize in the Concerto Competition in Boston when she was just age 11. Since 2017 she has also won First Prize and the title ‘Exceptional Young Artist’ in 12 international music competitions in Europe, Asia and America. This success has led to concerts at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Beethoven Haus in Bonn, and the Musikverein in Vienna, as well as performances with the Jerusalem Symphony, Symphonette Ra’anan, among appearances at several international music festivals. Nahar began cello lessons in 2011 and has studied with Hillel Zori and with Laurence Lesser. She has received the highest scholarship honours from the America-Israel Culture Foundation, Zefunot Culture Foundation and Ronen-Foundation of Music.
Bryan Cheng is a Canadian-born, Berlin-based cellist whose international career has continued to expand since being named a Prix Yves Paternot laureate in 2022. In the seasons following the award, he has appeared with leading orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Helsinki Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Prague Philharmonia, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa. The 2025/26 season marks another major step forward, with debuts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Musikkollegium Winterthur, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, alongside a Concertgebouw Amsterdam debut and return engagements across Europe and North America. Alongside his solo work, he maintains an active chamber-music profile and continues to appear regularly at the Verbier Festival.
Ni Xianhe began violin at age of seven. In 2017, he graduated from the Xinghai Music School in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, where he studied with Hou Donglei. He went on to study at the Central Music School of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Maria Sitkovskaya. He currently continues his studies in Moscow with Alexander Bobrovsky and Ivan Agafonov. Xianhe has a vast repertoire of standard solo and chamber works, and regularly performs the music of contemporary Chinese composers, helping to expose the music of his homeland to audiences around the globe.