Soprano VIRA SLYWOTZKY has performed with Seattle Opera, Chelsea Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, Light Opera of New York, Boston Midsummer Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera and the Berkshire Opera Festival. Favorite roles include Nedda (Pagliacci), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Magda (The Consul) and the title role in Vanessa. She is a founding member of the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project - LIVE! The recipient of a 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, Slywotzky has twice been a New England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2009 represented the United States at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Tenor SCOTT MURPHREE is a distinguished singer of the concert, recital and opera stage. He recently appeared at Nevada Opera as Anthony in Sweeney Todd. Other recent engagements include performances with the Utah Opera, Opera Delaware, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the New York Festival of Song, and the Five Boroughs Music Festival. Additionally, he has appeared in concerts at Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, and Town Hall. Mr. Murphree currently serves as an adjunct professor on the voice faculty in the Steinhardt School at New York University.    

Baritone JESSE BLUMBERG has performed roles at Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Atlanta Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, and at London’s Royal Festival Hall. He has made concert appearances with American Bach Soloists, Boston Baroque, and on Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, and has performed recitals with the New York Festival of Song and Marilyn Horne Foundation. His 2015-2016 season includes Messiah performances at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Bach cantatas with Montreal Baroque, a tour of St. John Passion with Apollo's Fire, and The Merry Widow at Boston Lyric Opera. Jesse is also the founder and artistic director of Five Boroughs Music Festival in New York City.  www.jesseblumberg.com

Praised by Opera News for his “soothing, cavernous baritone that can soar to heights of lyric beauty,” Alabama-born baritone MISCHA BOUVIER continues to impact audiences with his keen musicality and remarkable communicative ability. Noted for his “extraordinary and varied background” by San Francisco Classical Voice, Mischa has appeared with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, NYFOS, Folger Consort, Sting, Musica Sacra, Princeton Glee Club, Boston Symphony Orchestra, El Festival Casals de Puerto Rico, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Boston Pops, Metropolis Ensemble, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Anonymous 4, Bronx Opera, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Musica Sacra Maastricht, Stamford Symphony, Mark Morris Dance Group, and The Knights. Mischa’s 2015-2016 season includes performances with American Bach Soloists, Chatham Baroque, Bach Collegium San Diego, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, TENET, and Lysander Piano Trio, and recitals in Massachusetts, Florida, Maryland, New York and Pittsburgh. www.mischabouvier.com