French soprano Clara Barbier Serrano was a Young Artist at the Oxford International Song Festival and the Académie Jaroussky. She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig, the Royal College of Music (RCM) Opera Studio and the Conservatoire de Paris. Her opera roles include Rodelinda, Queen of the Night, Dew Fairy, Controller (RCM), Anne Page (British Youth Opera), Olympia (L'avant-scène Opéra), Autonoe (‘swim’cover, Montpellier Opera) and la Petite Sirène (Nice Opera). She has performed internationally in festivals such as LIFE Victoria Barcelona, at Britten Pears Arts and Festival Ensemble(s). Specialising in the interpretation of new music, she has recorded a CD of Nicola LeFanu’s music and premièred numerous works.

Joanna Kacperek is a multi-faceted pianist, performing both a soloist and a collaborative pianist. She has performed in her native Poland as well as in Europe, Canada and Japan. She is a Royal College of Music graduate (C. Bechstein Scholar) and former Young Artist of Leeds Lieder (2021) and Oxford International Song (2022-2024) festivals. Together with her duo partner Clara Barbier Serrano, she has performed at such festivals as LIFE Victoria Barcelona, Festival de La Gente, Oxford International Song Festival and Rhonefestival fűr Liedkunst. She actively performs solo recitals and her debut solo album will be released on 27 September with Rubicon Classics.

Daniel Barrett is a Glaswegian baritone studying with Russell Smythe at the Royal College of Music (RCM) Opera Studio. In January 2022 Daniel won First Prize at the RCM’s Lieder Competition; he claimed Second Prize in RCM’s Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition in 2022 and, most recently, Third Prize in the 2023 Lies Askonas Competition Finals. During the summer of 2022, Daniel was part of the Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique programme where he performed the role of Sam in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. He recently performed the role of Figaro in The Barber of Seville as a Young Artist at Opera Holland Park (Summer 2024).

Archie Bonham is a Britten Pears and Shipston Song Young Artist, and pianist for Wigmore Hall’s French Song Exchange 2024. He is currently a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, following Artist Diploma studies with Simon Lepper, Danny Driver and Roger Vignoles. He is winner of pianist’s prizes at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2023 and Ashburnham English Song Awards 2024, as well as multiple awards for song pianists at the RCM. In summer 2024 he is resident at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado as a New Horizons Fellow in Collaborative Piano.

Liam Bonthrone was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper, where roles included Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos), Remendado (Carmen), Rustighello (Lucrezia Borgia) and Young Sailor (Tristan und Isolde). Liam recently released his first solo album, Soirée parisienne, with pianist Benjamin Mead on the LINN label. Recent concert performances include Idomeneo with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and St. Matthew Passion (tenor arias) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. In the 2024/2025 season, Liam will make several house debuts including Il Conte d'Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at Royal Danish Opera, and roles in Saul and Parsifal at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Award winning British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin Mead has quickly established himself as a highly expressive and sensitive collaborative pianist. Highlights of previous seasons include recitals at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and L’Auditori Barcelona, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Schubertíada a Vilabertran, Oxford International Song Festival, Zermatt Festival and Schumannfest Düsseldorf. He has performed alongside Dame Felicity Lott, Manuel Walser, Äneas Humm, Milan Siljanov, Felix Gygli, Franziska Heinzen, Valerie Eickhoff, Florian Störtz and Liam Bonthrone. Benjamin’s performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and Swiss Radio SRF 2 Kultur, and he has recorded for SoloMusica, Prospero and Linn Records.

British baritone George Clark began his musical training as a chorister at Truro Cathedral, and has this year graduated with a Masters of Music degree under Professor Konrad Jarnot at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He most recently won First Prize at the 2023 Sieghard Rometsch Competition with pianist Gustas Raudonius, and is a current recipient of the Richard Wagner Association Scholarship. Last season George performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Brett Dean's Hamlet, and makes his guest debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Abraham’s Märchen im Grand Hotel for the 2024/25 season.

Lithuanian pianist Gustas Raudonius obtained his Master's degree in Piano and Art Song (under Professor Lisa Eisner-Smirnova and Professor Hans Eijsackers, respectively) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. During his studies, Gustas accompanied the singing class of Professor Konrad Jarnot and immediately secured a position at the university after his graduation in February 2024. In 2023, he won the Grand Prix at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris with baritone Tomas Kildišius, as well as the First Prize at the Sieghard Rometsch Chamber Music Competition in Düsseldorf with baritone George Clark.

Kellan Dunlap is an alumnus of the Des Moines Metro Opera and OPERA San Antonio Apprentice Artist Programs. He was recently awarded first place in the National Student Auditions with the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and named a semi-finalist in the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition. Next year, Kellan will embark on a USA tour, performing a song recital including Victor Cui's new piece, "Even the Trees Weep". he received his Bachelor of Music from Oakland University and is a Master of Music in Vocal Performance student at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

Lyndsi Maus holds a Master’s degree in Piano Performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree in Klavier Vokalbegleitung from the Kunst Universität Graz where she was a student of Julius Drake. In 2016, she won the Pianist Prize at the International Brahms Competition and the Outstanding Lieder Pianist Prize at AIMS in Graz, Austria. After studying, Lyndsi worked at Staatstheater Nürnberg and Theater Regensburg and since 2022, she has been an Artist Teacher of Opera Studies at Rice University The Shepherd School of Music. Alongside opera coaching, she also teaches the graduate level course on Song Literature.

New Zealand baritone Jonathan Eyers trained at The University of Waikato, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Opera Studio. Operatic experience includes Papageno Die Zauberflote (Nevill Holt Festival), Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (Charles Court Opera), Perückenmacher and Harlekin (cover) Ariadne auf Naxos (Garsington Opera), Ernie (cover) It’s a Wonderful Life (English National Opera), and Bonafede Il mondo della luna (Bampton Classical Opera). Jonathan is an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist, a City Music Foundation Artist, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist. He has recently performed at the Oxford International Song, London Song, Aldeburgh and Glasperlenspiel festivals.

Ilan Kurtser is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and Samling Artist. He has won numerous prizes in competitions in the UK and abroad, including First Prize at the Copenhagen International Lied Duo Competition and Kathleen Ferrier Awards Accompanist Prize. Concert highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Museo del Violino (Cremona, Italy), Leeds Lieder Festival and International Lied Festival Zeist. As a recent Bicentenary Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music, Ilan is recording his debut CD of the complete Goethe-Lieder by Hugo Wolf. As a Fellow at the Academy, he curated art song concerts and coached singers and pianists.

Hanne Marit Mordal Iversen completed her Master’s degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with teacher Ann-Helen Moen this year. She sings with the Norwegian Soloists' Choir and works as a soloist in Norway and the Faroe Islands, performing works such as Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. In April 2023, she won a finalist’s place in the ’Young Musicians Concert‘ with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Grieg Foundation. Last October she won the ‘Prix de Lied’ at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger with pianist Revaz Abramia. Hanne Marit also sings with the Kehlkopfkollektiv ensemble based in Switzerland and the Margaretakyrkans Vokalensemble based in Oslo.

Revaz Abramia is from Tbilisi and settled in Norway after a year of exchange at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH). He continued his Master’s studies in Oslo majoring in chamber music and accompaniment. Revaz won the second prize for chamber music with violinist Sophio Mujaridze at the Mozart International Competition in Tbilisi in 2020. In June 2024, he toured with the piano class of Professor Christopher Park to Taranto in Italy where he performed three concerts as a collaboration between NMH and Accademia Musicale Mediterranea. In October 2023, he won the ‘Prix de Lied’ at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger with singer Hanne Marit Mordal Iversen.

Emily Jennings graduated from the Royal College of Music (Bachelor of Music: Honours and Master of Vocal Performance: Distinction) where she was an Alice Templeton Award holder. Emily is a Britten Pears Young Artist (2023/24) as an Elizabeth Harwood Award holder and a SongEasel Young Artist (2024). Recent personal performing highlights include a solo recital of English Song and traditional folk songs at Glastonbury Festival (as part of the Green Futures Field’s programming), performances at Snape Maltings (as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme) and singing Meleagro in Handel’s Atalanta with Orkesta Nord (as part of Barokkfest, Trondheim).

Swedish-Taiwanese collaborative pianist Emily Hoh is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) Award for Collaborative Pianists. She graduated with Distinction in 2022 from the Royal College of Music studying under Simon Lepper, Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles. Emily is a Samling Artist, a Britten Pears Young Artist, and a SongEasel Young Artist. She has recently performed at the Oxford International Song Festival, the ROSL and Wigmore Hall, as well as in masterclasses and concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2024. Emily will be working alongside staff pianists at the Oxenfoord Summer School in August 2024 with an award generously supported by the Robert Turnball Piano Foundation.

Annabel Kennedy recently graduated from the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Amanda Roocroft and Caroline Dowdle. Annabel is currently a member of the Opernstudio at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. She is an Opera Prelude, Britten Pears and Jerwood (Glyndebourne) young artist and a Samling Artist. In summer 2024, Annabel was an Alvarez Young Artist for Garsington Opera, singing Juno in Platée and covering Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro. Recent roles include Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Minskwoman in Flight, L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortiléges (RCM), and cover for Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Glyndebourne). Recent awards include the Singers’ Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and the Press & Junior Jury Prizes at the International Vocal Competition ‘s Hertogenbosch LiedDuo Competition.

Ana Mănăstireanu is an increasingly sought-after collaborative pianist and a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music in London. She has won multiple awards, including the Accompanist Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards and the Association of English Singers and Speakers Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition. Recent performance highlights include collaborations with tenor Mark Padmore CBE and baritone Roderick Williams OBE, as well as appearances on BBC Radio 3 - In Tune and in other major festivals across the UK.

Irish baritone David Kennedy recently completed training at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. He was the first Irish scholar of the LiedAkademie with the Heidelberger Frühling, under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson, for 2022/23 and subsequently was invited back for the 2023/2024 season. David performed at LIEDBasel in May 2024, receiving mentorship from the duo in residence, Julius Drake and Ian Bostridge. In January this year, he performed beside Susan Manoff in the Pierre-Boulez Saal, Berlin, in their Young Artist series during Schubert Week 2024. He is looking forward to making music at Wigmore Hall.

Jong Sun Woo is a collaborative pianist, praised for her ‘poetic and characterful’ (Guardian) and 'profoundly expressive' (Planet Hugill) playing. With her duo partner Giacomo Schmidt, she has recently won prizes at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch and International Student LiedDuo Competition in Groningen. She accompanied Felix Gygli when he won the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall. Jong Sun has also received the Gerald Moore Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Accompanist Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards and Leach Award.

Michael Lafferty has had success in numerous competitions, with highlights including first prizes at the 2021 Association of English Singers and Speakers Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, the 2021 Guildhall English Song Prize and the 2017 Freda Parry Foundation Competition.. Other successes include being a finalist at the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2023 Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal and winning the ‘Prix Andre-Bacand’ for ‘Best Canadian Work’ at the 2022 Concours musical international de Montréal. Concert and recital performance highlights include Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon at the Salzburg Festival 2021, Handel’s Messiah for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and a recital for the Oxford International Song Festival in 2023.

Originally from Scotland, Daniel Peter Silcock is a pianist particularly distinguished as a song accompanist. Currently based in London, Daniel is a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), specialising in ensemble piano with Joseph Middleton. Daniel was delighted to collaborate with Edmond Rodriguez (tenor) as part of Renée Fleming’s SongStudio in January 2024 at Carnegie Hall. Daniel is also a Samling Artist. Daniel has won major song accompaniment prizes at the RAM, including the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize and the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize. In January 2024, Daniel returned to Wigmore Hall with the RAM Song Circle, performing Liszt’s 3 Sonetti del Petrarca with tenor Samuel Stopford.

British/Australian soprano Lauren Lodge-Campbell was awarded Second Prize in the 2023 Concours Corneille, both Second and Audience prizes at the 2018 Handel Singing Competition, and was a member of Les Arts Florissants’ ‘Le Jardin des Voix’. Recent highlights include Filia in Carissimi Jephte with Les Arts Florissants, Amor in L'incoronazione di Poppea with The English Concert, Iole in Handel’s Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele in Karlsruhe, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Britten Sinfonia, Purcell’s King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort and Bach’s Magnificat with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Lauren is a passionate chamber musician, recently devising a programme of 17th Century and 20thCentury jazz songs with period instruments.

Collin Shay is a keyboard player and countertenor based in London. They have performed at the Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, and Eurovision. Recent engagements have taken them to Holland Festival Concertgebouw, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Bregenzer Festspiele, and the Southbank Centre. Collaborations with Lauren Lodge-Campbell include a performance broadcast on Radio France Musique, and the Northern Aldborough Festival New Voices Competition. Collin holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University, and also studied at the Juilliard School and the Guildhall School of Music, where they spent two years as Junior Artist Fellow in Early Keyboards.

Japanese mezzo-soprano Sophia Maekawa is a Ryan Opera Center ensemble member at Lyric Opera of Chicago. This season at Lyric she looks forward to covering Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and performing Lee Ann in The Listeners. Last season she appeared as Tisbe in La Cenerentola and Pastuchyna in Jenůfa. She is an alumni of Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Programme and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist Programme. Sophia received the 89th Music Competition of Japan & Tokyo Shinbun Award. She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music where she performed many roles including the title role in Ariodante and Nancy in Albert Herring.

Pianist and vocal coach Michael Banwarth is currently the ensemble pianist for the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he served as Assistant Conductor for Champion during the 2023/24 season. With a particular passion for art song and recital repertoire, Michael has appeared in Classical Music Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, The Florentine Opera’s ‘Al Fresco’ series, and can be heard frequently in recital on WFMT 98.7. He received his Master of Music from the New England Conservatory and has held vocal piano fellowships at numerous festivals including the Music Academy of the West.

Georgie Malcolm currently studies with Yvonne Kenny on the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) Opera Course, having completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. She recently performed the title role in Handel’s Alcina at GSMD. Solo concert highlights include Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with the Really Big Chorus, and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with the BBC Philharmonic at Bridgewater Hall, later broadcast on Radio 3. Georgie was awarded the Second and Schubert prizes at the 2022 National Mozart Singing Competition, was a member of the 2023 Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange, and a 2023 Leeds Lieder Young Artist alongside Edward Campbell-Rowntree.

Edward Campbell-Rowntree is a current PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Cambridge, researching the relationship between death and music in 17th Century France. He studied music at King’s College London, the University of Oxford, and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), where he focused on the song repertoire, becoming a member of the RNCM Songsters and winning First Prize in the inaugural Williams-Howard Memorial Competition. He has received tuition and guidance from Murray McLachlan, Richard Ormrod, Joseph Middleton, and Simon Lepper. In 2023, Edward was made a Leeds Lieder Young Artist with soprano Georgie Malcolm.

The Austrian mezzo-soprano is currently pursuing her musical education at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in the class of Marek Rzepka and Jan Philip Schulze. Anja has participated in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Claudia Visca, Kurt Equiluz, Robert Holl, Sir András Schiff and Franz Welser-Möst which have given her the chance to enrich her interpretation. She has performed in several Schubertiades with Robert Holl, David Lutz and Sir András Schiff, performing at venues such as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna. Anja took part in the Randhartinger Serenades Austria 2023 with Michael Schade and Justus Zeyen.

Richard Fu is a member of the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio and joins the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Programme in 2024-26. Though he grew up wanting to become a lawyer, Richard fell in love with classical music and studied at the Royal College of Music, the University of Oxford, the Juilliard School, and song accompaniment with Julius Drake. He began his career playing 30 concerts on tour with violinist Timothy Chooi. Richard collaborates frequently with cellist Zlatomir Fung, recently recording their debut album. He has received fellowships from Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festival and School, Music Academy of the West and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, and has attended masterclasses with Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Renée Fleming, and Thomas Hampson.

Mezzo-soprano Alexandria Moon is a member of the Royal College of Music (RCM) Opera Studio and is supported by the Drake Calleja and Josephine Baker Trusts, studying with Dinah Harris. Recent highlights include winning First Prize with duo partner Archie Bonham in the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, being soloist in Lili Boulanger’s Du fond de l’abime with the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Andrew Davis (RCM), premièringa lost work of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at Wigmore Hall and her role debuts including Lucretia (British Youth Opera (BYO), Brunel Museum), Mercedes (Huntingdonshire Philharmonic), L’enfant (RCM), Cherubino (Westminster Opera Company, Chateau de Panloy) and Mistress Ford (BYO, Opera Holland Park).

Archie Bonham is a Britten Pears and Shipston Song Young Artist, and pianist for Wigmore Hall’s French Song Exchange 2024. He is currently a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, following Artist Diploma studies with Simon Lepper, Danny Driver and Roger Vignoles. Archie is winner of pianist’s prizes at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2023 and Ashburnham English Song Awards 2024, plus multiple awards for song pianists at the RCM. In summer 2024 he is resident at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado as a New Horizons Fellow in Collaborative Piano.

Mathilde Ortscheidt is a French mezzo-soprano. She won First Prize at the prestigious ‘Cesti’ Baroque Opera Competition in 2023 and is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with Baroque ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants and Correspondances. After a degree in drama, she joined and graduated from the Maîtrise Notre Dame de Paris. This season, she appeared in Les Ailes du désir by Othman Louati on tour in several French theatres, in L’Olimpiade (Licida) by Cimarosa in Vienna and Versailles alongside the Talens Lyriques, and in Arianna in Creta (Tauride) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen. She was a semi-finalist in the Queen Elisabeth Competition and is a laureate of the Académie Orsay-Royaumont.

Juliette Journaux is a French freelance collaborative pianist and vocal coach based in Paris and Geneva. She holds three Master’s degrees in Piano, Vocal Accompaniment and Opera Conducting obtained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Juliette has performed in numerous prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opera Comique, the Laeizhalle in Hamburg and the Athenaeum Concert Hall in Bucharest. As a collaborative pianist, she is a laureate of the Académie Orsay-Royaumont and a 2023-2024 Britten Pears Young Artist as recipient of the Viola Tunnard Award.

British soprano Natasha Page is a graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where she studied with Rosa Mannion. She is a Samling Artist, and a Young Artist at Oxford International Song Festival, at Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green and at Leeds Lieder.. She was awarded First Prize at the 2023 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards. This summer, Natasha performed as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Wild Arts) and as Megacle in L’Olimpiade (Vache Baroque Festival). She has sung and covered roles for companies such as Garsington Opera, IfOpera, Celebrate Voice Festival and Opera de Lille, and performed as a soloist at venues such as Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

British pianist Ella O’Neill won the Pianist Prize at the 2019 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and has been a finalist in the Wigmore/Bollinger International Song Competition and Das Lied Wettbewerb. In 2024, Ella released her debut album with tenor Laurence Kilsby, co-produced by Deutsche Grammophon, Avi Music and SWR Kultur. They will present the programme in recital at Wigmore Hall this September. Other recital venues for Ella have included Carnegie Hall as a SongStudio artist, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Heidelberger Frühling, Oxford International Song, Leeds Lieder and Brighton festivals. Ella is an alumna of the Royal College of Music.

Sofia Revueltas recently won the Belle Voci Foundation Award at the 2024 Bolko von Hochberg Song Competition in Poland. She was also a prize winner at the 2022 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Song Competition and in 2020 was awarded a Bayreuth Stipendium from the Wagner Society in Leipzig. Sofia specialises in ‘trouser’ roles,and has sung Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Kammeroper Köln), Donna Elivra in Don Giovanni (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock), as well as contemporary roles. Sofia is currently studying Lied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Germany. She holds a Master’s in Opera from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock and a Bachelor's in Classical Voice Performance from the Haute École de Musique in Geneva,

Pianist Yuri Ota was born in Tanabe, Japan, and is dedicated to exploring music from early Baroque to contemporary pieces. She has performed at festivals such as the Koerppen Festspiele and the Chamber Music Society of Hanover. As a cembalist she has performed at Herrenhausen Barock and at the Hanover State Theatre. Ota studied at the Aichi University of the Arts, supported by the Nanki Foundation, and is currently studying to obtain her Master’s in Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Professor Jan Philip Schulze and Professor Markus Becker.

Emma Roberts attended the National Opera Studio in 2022/23, and is a Samling Artist and a Young Artist at Britten Pears and Orsay-Royaumont Académie.. She graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM) Opera Studio in 2022, and that year won the Second and Song prizes at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and First Prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. Recent solo performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with David Briggs (Merton College Oxford), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle (Kings Lynn with Ben Horden) and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with Martyn Brabbins. Emma has performed recitals at the London and Oxford International Song festivals, The Red House (Aldeburgh), Musée D’Orsay, l'Abbaye de Royaumont and Aalborg Festival.

Francesca Lauri recently graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM) with a Master’s in Collaborative Piano studying under Simon Lepper, Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles as the Ian Evans Lombe Scholar; she won the pianist’s prize in the RCM Lieder, Lies Askonas and Schumann competitions and is currently the RCM Lord and Lady Lurgan Fellow. In 2023, she was a Young Artist for Leeds Lieder and Shipston Song and a Samling Artist; she is the 2024 Britten Pears Young Artist Programme Viola Tunnard scholar as well as the Oxenfoord Sam Hutchings scholar and an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist. Francesca won the pianist’s prize at the 2024 Royal Over-Seas League Competition and was a finalist in the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.

Northumbrian bass-baritone Michael Ronan has recently finished a season as a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne, performing the roles of Masetto in Don Giovanni, The Keeper of the Madhouse in The Rakes Progress, and Second Commissaire in Dialogues des Carmélites, and covering the role of Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress). Michael has seen recent success as the winner of both Glyndebourne’s 2023 John Christie Award, and the Royal Academy of Music’s 2022 Bicentenary Prize with his winning performance described as ‘outstandingly moving’. In 2024 Michael will make his debut at Wuppertal Opera House as Herr Reich in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and will be joining the Samling Artist Programme.

Harry Rylance has performed at major venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Seoul Arts Centre, Grand Hall of Budapest, Royal Concertgebouw, and live on BBC Radio. Recent highlights include his recital debut at Wigmore Hall, winning the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards Accompanist Prize, and performances at Aldeburgh Festival as a Britten Pears Young Artist. Harry studied at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) under Joanna MacGregor CBE and graduated in 2020 before being appointed as a Chamber Music and Répétiteur Fellow. He was also awarded the RAM Silver Medal and was elected an Associate of RAM. Since 2022, Harry has worked regularly on the music staff at Glyndebourne and for the International Meistersinger Akademie in Germany.

The Uruguayan tenor completed a Master’s in Lied and Oratorio at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Mario Díaz and Pauliina Tukiainen. In 2023 he was awarded First Prize at the International Mozart Competition. Since 2021 he has worked in the ensemble of Theater Bonn. Previous engagements include Verdi's Don Carlo, Alfredo (La Traviata), Mozart’s Don Ottavio and Tamino (The Magic Flute), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Lenski (Eugene Onegin). Santiago has worked with renowned conductors such as Simone Young, Lorenzo Viotti and Pier Giorgio Morandi and directors such as Christof Loy, Vasily Barkhatov and Leo Nucci. He was recently chosen as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for 2024-26.

Described as ‘a wonderfully responsive and assured pianist’ (Telegraph), pianist Ian Tindale has partnered artists such as Benjamin Appl, Helen Charlston and Roderick Williams. Highlights include recitals for BBC Radio 3 with Soraya Mafi and Nick Pritchard and a residency at the Ludlow English Song Weekend. With duo partner Harriet Burns, Ian has performed at the International Lied Festival Zeist and Oxford International Song Festival. Their debut album was released to critical acclaim in January 2024. Ian was awarded the Pianist’s Prize at the 2017 Wigmore Hall Song Competition, and he has since held positions as Official Pianist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Brussels) and International Vocal Competition (‘s-Hertogenbosch). Ian is Artistic Director of Shipston Song, which he founded in 2022.

Swiss baritone Joël Terrin studied in Lausanne with Frédéric Gindraux before moving to London to work with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Joël completed the Artist Diploma programme with Distinction. Joël, a Samling Artist and former Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist, has also participated in programmes such as Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Académie Orsay-Royaumont in Paris with pianist and duo partner Cole Knutson. Joël participated in the inaugural French Song Exchange hosted by Wigmore Hall in London and Salle Cortot in Paris in 2019.

Jong Sun Woo is a collaborative pianist, praised for her ‘poetic and characterful’ (Guardian) and 'profoundly expressive' (Planet Hugill) playing. With her duo partner Giacomo Schmidt, she has recently won prizes at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch and the International Student Lied Duo Competition in Groningen. She accompanied Felix Gygli when he won the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall. She has also received the Gerald Moore Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Accompanist Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards and Leach Award.