current young artists

Australian baritone JEREMY BOULTON studied at the Opera School of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Maree Ryan AM. Masterclasses included those by Richard Bonynge AC, CBE; Jessica Pratt; Gerald Finley OC, CBE; Barbara Frittoli; Fabio Armiliato; Graham Pushee, and Graham Johnson OBE. In 2022, he was awarded the Marianne Mathy Scholarship, the Nicole Car Prize at the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition, first prize at the Sydney International Song Prize, second prize in the Bel Canto Award from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation and second prize in the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship. He also has received support from the Sidney Myer Fund and the Myer Foundation's National Assistance Program and an Italian language merit scholarship to L'Università Per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy, through L'Istituto di Cultura (Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney). He joins the Opernstudio of the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons. His stage roles include Marcello in Puccini’s La bohéme, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Il Conte in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, among others.

Born in Bruneck in South Tyrol, Mezzo-soprano VERENA KRONBICHLER achieved a bachelor’s degree in voice with Professors Karlheinz Hanser and KS Krassimira Stoyanova as well as in her studies in vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since October 2021, she has been studying in the master’s program in concert singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in the class of KS Professor Christiane Iven. During her time in Vienna, Verena sang the Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Magic Flute,  Dorabellain in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel  and the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. In the 2022/23 season, she performed at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the following roles:  Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti), Laudine’s Heart (Iwein Löwenritter by Eggert), Sandman (Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly by Puccini), and as A Young Babylonian (Hérodiade by Massenet).

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South Korean tenor SANGEUP SON received his Bachelor’s degree from the Korea National University of Arts where he studied vocal performance. While a student, he sang roles in several opera productions including Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Verdi’s La Traviata. He is soon to begin the opera school programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and while there he will appear in opera productions and concert performances.

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After graduating with high honours with a Bachelor of Musical Arts from the American University in Cairo, Egyptian-German mezzo soprano KARIMA EL DEMERDASCH began, in 2021, a Masters in Vocal Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. In her first year at Guildhall, she won the Susan Longfield Prize, an internal school competition for female singers. She has had several performances as a soloist in the Milton Court Concert Hall, including participation in a Russian song project led by Ian Burnside. She also has taken part in an opera workshop with composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad with whom she has worked and performed at St. Hilda’s College in Oxford. In April, she was a participant in the Georg Solti Accademia répétiteur course in Venice, and she will start, in September 2023, the Opera Course at Guildhall.

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The American bass-baritone JOSEPH PARRISH, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from Baltimore School for the Arts in 2016 and subsequently obtained his Bachelor of Music degree from College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati in 2020. He is a master’s student in Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School where he studies with Darrell Babidge. In addition, he is a Music Advancement Program Teaching Fellow and member of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices with the Denyce Graves Foundation. He holds a master's degree from The Juilliard School. He has been seen as a soloist with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, American Classical Orchestra, and Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. He currently is an artist diploma candidate in opera studies at The Juilliard School. Recent credits include winning first prize in the Gerda Lissner Art Song Vocal Competition and Young Concert Artists International Competition  and an encouragement award in the Duncan Williams Voice Competition, Sodbuster in Mazzoli's and Vavrek’s Proving Up, and a 2023 Schwab Vocal Rising Star residency at Caramoor.

British baritone JOHNANNES MOORE is a singer at the Royal Academy Opera Studio (RAM) in London. Supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, Countess of Munster and Elmely Foundation, he is the winner of the multiple competitions. His operatic roles include John Falstaff in Vaughan-Williams’ Sir John in Love, staged by the British Youth Orchestra, the title roles of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Edinburgh Studio Opera; and these roles with the Royal Academy Opera - Theseus in Britten’s Midsummer Nights Dream , Slook  in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio), Antonio and Il Conte (cover) in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Nick Shadow (cover) in Stravinsky’s The Rakes Progress. As a soloist in oratorio, he has been involved in the Bach cantata series at RAM, conducted by Sir John Butt, Masaaki Suzuki, Iain Ledingham and Phillippe Herreweghe, He is a member of the Royal Academy’s Song Circle and was a young artist at Ludlow English Song Weekend. He recently performed with the “International Young Soloists’” on a concert tour across China and is part of the RAM’s Bicentenary project to record all of Wolf Goethe Lieder.

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Born in Ivano-Frankivsk in the Ukraine, Soprano INNA KALUGINA has, from a very young age, had an innate predisposition for singing and the stage. In 2011, she was admitted to the National Ukrainian Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kiev, and in 2017 she graduated with a Masters Degree in Opera Singing under the guidance of Irina Semenenko. Between 2017 and 2019 she also studied in Los Angeles at the University of California UCLA and in Austria with baritone Vladimir Chernov, subsequently joining his class at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. She pursued further vocal studies with Matthias Rexroth and Olga Pasichnyk at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and with Annick Massis at the Académie de la voix n Treilles in France. While in Kiev, Inna took an active part in the cultural life of the Music Academy by participating in numerous productions of the Opera Studio. Her debut role at the Lviv Opera was as La Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.  In 2019, she performed the title-role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. She has been the winner of the New Names of Ukraine competition and was granted a scholarship by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation for her charitable work and development of national culture. In 2022, she was awarded First Grand Prix Opera at the Concours International Georges Enesco in Paris.

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After his early musical studies in Ukraine, bass-baritone IHOR MOSTOVOI continued his education at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and at École Normale de Musique «Alfred Cortot» in Paris. He has appeared on the stages of Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Opéra National du Rhin, Opera de Lyon, Opéra Grand Avignon, as well as, other venues in Europe, Canada and Asia, including the World Premiere of Tang Poems with the iSing Festival (China, 2020). Recently, he incarnated the role of Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia with The Opera People Company in Singapore and made his United States debut with Philadelphia Orchestra and the iSing Festival at Alice Tully Hall in New York and in Philadelphia's Kimmel Hall. (December 2022 - January 2023). This spring and summer he will be a participant of the Opera for Peace Academy in Paris. In the 2023-2024 season, Ihor will be joining the Académie of Opera National de Paris, appearing in a recital of Ukrainian music at the Salle Bourgie in Montréal, as well as in a concert dedicated to Ukraine with the Orchestre Classique de Montréal.  He also currently does fundraising recitals for Ukraine.

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Dramatic soprano SANDRA SARIKOVAITE was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 2017, she began studying at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, under Dr. Michele Crider. Additionally, she has been improving her skills through collaborative work with well-known musicians - pianist Motiejus Bazaras, vocal coach Gaiva Bandzinaite, pianists Katrin Lehismets and Vyara Shuperlieva, as well as Professor Andreas Macco.  Along with her participation in many concerts organized by the Mozarteum University, she was also part of the opera production of Offenbach’s Les contes d‘Hoffmann, conducted by Gernot Sahler under the stage direction of Alexander von Pfeil.,and the production of the tragedy Lear  by William Shakespeare, conducted by Franz Welser. Since the beginning of her carrier, Sandra has been supported by the opera singer, Egle Sidlauskaite - Wyss, who is, as well, her current vocal tutor, and in the last few years she has been mentored by the famous korrepetitor and vocal coach Alessandro Misciasi.

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American tenor RYAN CAPOZZO graduated from the Yale School of Music with a Master of Musical Arts degree, where he was awarded the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize. He also holds a B.M. and an M.M. from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music. During his time at Yale, Mr. Capozzo had an opportunity to work with esteemed professionals and performing artists including Richard Cross, Gerald Martin Moore, J.J. Penna, and Howard Watkins. He made his role debut as Arcadio in Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas with Yale Opera.  During the 2022-2023 season, he appeared in the role of Remendado in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Carmen and participated in the Ryan Opera Center’s Rising Stars program. In addition, he took part in the Berkshire Opera Festival for its Spring Concert To Paris with Love in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In the 2023-2024 season, he will sing the role of Steuermann in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and cover the roles of Števa in Janáček's Jenůfa and Howie Albert in Terence Blanchard’s Champion.

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Chea Kang is a Korean soprano, who has recently graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Master’s degree. Ms. Kang has been studying voice since she was 12 years old, and is currently continuing her studies with César Ulloa. She graduated from The Juilliard School in 2021 with a Bachelor’s degree, and she was a recipient of the John Erskin Prize. While she was studying at The Juilliard School, she performed as a soloist in the 2020 production of New York Festival of Songs “Cubans in Paris,” led by Steven Blier at the Peter J. Sharp theater in New York City. At the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ms. Kang has performed leading roles in operas, including Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare by Händel, Emilia in Flavio by Händel, and La Princesse in L'enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel. She has also appeared in Dialogues of the Carmelites by Poulenc at the San Francisco Opera as Sister Catherine in October 2022.

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Aleksandra Dunaeva is a lyric soprano currently studying at the Royal College of Music on the Master of Vocal in the Performing Arts course with Nick Sears, where she is the recipient of the Leonard Marks Memorial Award supported by the Alice Templeton Scholarship. Alexandra studied in Italy at the Concervatorio Monopoli Nino Rota under Maria Piscitelli and graduated with distinction from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire in Russia.

Alexandra made her debut in Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas at the Mariinsky Theatre with the Prantum Integrum orchestra in 2017. From 2018 to 2022 she performed as a soloist at the St Petersburg State Conservatory Opera and Ballet Theatre. In the same year she toured with the Vasilievsky Island Orchestra to European countries (Germany, Holland, France, Belgium). Alexandra won first prize at the Neapolitan Masters competition in Italy and a special award at the International Opera Bella Vocal Competition in Russia. Her operatic roles include Musetta from La Boheme, Adina from L’elisir d’amore, Despina from Così fan tutte, Belinda from Dido and Aeneas and others.