Adam Ewing is an Affiliate Professor of Voice at Regis University. As well as coaching, accompanying, conducting theatrical performances, and teaching voice, Ewing performs with Loveland Opera, the Colorado Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Opera on Tap, and many other Colorado companies. In addition to dramatic works, Ewing is an avid performer of art song. He studied with Stephanie Blythe and Dr. Alan Smith at the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar in Potsdam, NY, and attended the Vancouver International Song Institute. He holds degrees from Northwest Missouri State University, Indiana University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

American tenor who received his bachelor's degree from Westminster Choir College in vocal performance, studying under Dr. Sharon Sweet. He received his master's degree in Vocal Performance at Rutgers University, studying under Judith Nicosia. He has performed operatic roles with Boston Lyric Opera, Westminster Opera Theater, and Opera Theater Rutgers; including the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring.He has studied in a master class with several industry legends, including Dalton Baldwin, Simon Carrington, and Neil Shicoff. He is currently working as a professional singer and a teacher of voice and piano in the central New Jersey area.

Yanina has been singing for as long as she can remember. She started her vocal training back in Ukraine. After she moved to Canada, she started taking lessons at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Yanina has completed a Music Performance diploma program majoring in classical voice in 2022, studying with Kiiri Michelsen. She got to be a part of Voice Collegium, Vocal Summer Intensive and Opera Studio during her studies. Besides singing, Yanina also loves playing piano, flute, and drums, learning foreign languages, dancing, and weight lifting.

Praised as a “sophisticated artist” with a “gorgeous voice” and “stratospheric vocals” (Winnipeg Free Press), soprano Katherine Mayba is an exciting and dynamic artist. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Katherine is engaged with a number of opera and chamber companies in Winnipeg and across Canada. Through her work with the Ukrainian Art Song Project, Katherine is invested in promoting Ukrainian art songs in recital. Katherine is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and is a student of Tracy Dahl. A multidisciplinary musician, she holds her ARCT Performance Diploma in Voice, Piano and Violin from The Royal Conservatory of Music.

Taryn Plater is a versatile performer and creator with a strong investment in arts outreach. Applauded for her “dramatic and vocal thrust” (Opera Canada), Taryn has trained with Opera NUOVA, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Against the Grain's National Opera Intensive, where she created the artist statement First Steps, exploring her heritage through Ukrainian art song and dance. This year, the Vancouver-based mezzo-soprano was an RBC Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada. In addition to her performance endeavours, Taryn is a mentor with Opera InReach and the founding Artistic Director of Opera Unbound.

A native of Xilin Gol Mongolian, Dr. Narantsetseg Ren is a rising classical singer and a world-renowned scientist in music cognition. A faculty member at Longy School of Music of Bard College, Narantsetseg has studied voice with Karen Holvik and Mark Lee at the New England Conservatory, Dr. Dana Varga at Longy, Mark Daboll at the University of Toronto, and Elizabeth Werres at Universität der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. While known for performing slavic art songs from the romantic period, Narantsetseg has begun to highlight the casting in Bach Secular Cantatas and Libby Larson's operas. Narantsetseg has been praised as "a capable and musical singer, possessing a rich, textured, chiaroscuro-balanced mezzo of developing ease, flexibility, and agility."

Emotions are the core of what humans are – at least that’s what tenor Adam Schmidt believes. The purpose of art is to experience emotion on our own terms and in doing so learn about ourselves and others. That connection to humanity is why Adam left Engineering and became a musician. His young career has taken him all over the United States and Canada, and to parts of Europe to perform opera, oratorio, and song. Most recently, in May he performed Gerald Finzi’s A Young Man’s Exhortation with pianist Gregory Vandikas, and in July he performed Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe with his long-time collaborator Chris Knopp.

Kasia Swintak is a Ukrainian Canadian soprano from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her Bachelor of Music - Performance from the University of Manitoba’s Desautels’s Faculty of Music. Kasia’s first introductions to her world of music were filled with Ukrainian music, from singing hymns to dancing with Sopilka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. During her studies at the Faculty of Music under Donna Fletcher, she had the opportunity to incorporate Ukrainian art song into her recitals which sparked a passion for performing in her ancestral language. Kasia is honoured to be a part of the Ukrainian Art Song Project’s Summer Institute and continue to celebrate these beautiful works.