Russian-American Soprano Erika Baikoff is currently a Young Artist in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program; This season she will be singing Xenia (Boris Godunov) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). From 2018 to 2020, Erika was a member of the Lyon National Opera Studio; her roles included Le Feu/ Princesse/ Rossignol (L’enfant et les sortilèges) or Anna (Nabucco). Most recently, she sang Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra. Erika is the first prize recipient at the 2019 Helmut Deutsch International Lied Competition and the 10th Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger. In 2021, she was a member of the Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier festival, where she sang Musetta (La Bohème). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Music from The Guildhall School of Music.

Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry is a 2021-2023 BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the 2021 Carl Bechstein Foundation scholarship. He has commissioned and premiered works by Nico Muhly, Molly Joyce, Heloise Werner, Viktor Orri Árnason or Guðmundur Emilsson. Kunal has been invited to several young artist programs for pianists specializing in art song. In 2018, he was selected for the inaugural Royaumont-Orsay Academy. He also joined the first Song Studio, mentored by Renee Fleming, at Carnegie Hall, was invited by Thomas Hampson to participate in the Heidelberg Lied Academy. Originally from Gainesville, Georgia, Kunal was a Schulich Scholar at McGill University, and recently graduated with distinction in song interpretation, under the tutelage of Wolfram Rieger, from the Hochschule for Müsik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.