Brian Cho, based out of Toronto, Ontario, is a seasoned collaborator and active repetiteur. He is currently an intern coach and staff pianist at the Canadian Opera Company under the mentorship of Liz Upchurch. Cho's talent has been recognized through various prestigious fellowships; In 2019, he was a fellow with the Magisterra Soloists, in 2021, a collaborative piano fellow at the Académie Orford Musique, and in 2023 he attended the Music Academy of the West as a vocal piano fellow where he was a winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition. Cho has been nominated twice for classical musician of the year at the London Forest City Music Awards in recognition for his work co-founding the not-for-profit opera organization "Can of Soup Collective". Brian Cho earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Western Ontario studying with Leslie Kinton, Tina Yanchus, John Hess, and Marianna Chibotar-Rutkevich.

Baritone Navasard Hakobyan is a studio member with Houston Grand Opera and won 3rd Prize of the 2023 Operalia World Opera Competition. Current and upcoming season highlights include roles as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Houston Grand Opera, Gregorio in Romeo et Juliet with Dallas Opera, and a house debut with Dresden Semperoper. Previous highlights include role debuts with Yerevan Opera Theater as Silvio in I Pagliacci and as Germone in La traviata. A native of Armenia, Navasard also performed as Antonio in Il viaggio a Reims with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. He graduated from the vocal studio of Armenian State Song Theater and is currently completing a master’s degree at Yerevan Conservatory. Since 2018, he has also been a soloist of the Young Opera Singers Program of the Yerevan Opera Theater. Navasard won the Music Academy’s 2023 Marilyn Horne Song Competition and was a winner of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

• Danny is earning a bachelor's degree at Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Ida Kavafian;
• He joins the violin section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in fall 2023;
• He has also performed with the Royal Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Suwon Philharmonic, and Charleston Symphony orchestras.

• Ji Youn is earning her master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studies with Jonathan Feldman;
• Awards include winning the 2019 New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, and Second Place in the 2022 Ke’alohi International Piano Competition;
• She has performed with the New England Conservatory Symphony, Broad Street Orchestra, and on the Wednesday at One series at Alice Tully Hall;
• She appeared in the Trio Muto chamber music recital in Korea.

• Born in Huanuco, Peru, Priscila earned her doctorate from the University of Miami
• She was awarded the Christa Marschall-Bach Foundation Prize at the 2022 Bach Leipzig International Competition
• Priscila is director of keyboard studies at Whitworth University, and artistic director of Parnassus Music Society in Peru

Born in Tainan City, Taiwan, Szuyu began to learn the piano at the age of four. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and master’s degree from The Juilliard School. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in piano performance at Rice University under the instruction of Jon Kimura Parker. Szuyu is the winner of the 2023 Solo Piano Competition at the Music Academy of the West. She is a recipient of the CHIMEI Arts Award and the second prize winner at the 2022 Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition. In 2019, she won Second Prize and best mazurka performance at Beijing Chopin Piano competition. She participated in the 2021 Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition and advanced to the second stage. Since then, she has been invited to play with orchestras and give recitals in major venues.