Christopher González Arellanes is a Mexican tenor and a member of the Opera Studio of Mexico. He trained at the Vienna Opera Academy, where he performed roles such as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Ferrando in Così fan tutte. He recently appeared in L’Enfant et les sortilèges and continues to build a versatile repertoire. In 2026, he was awarded third prize at the Concurso Operístico María Callas in São Paulo, confirming his position as a promising young tenor on the international scene.

Evan Myles Byrne is an Irish–American tenor and graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studied with Dr. Imelda Drumm. His roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Don Basilio and Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), Ernesto (La vera costanza). Recent seasons have seen him in French and Italian roles, including Giuseppe and Gastone (La traviata) and Don José (Carmen), making his Vienna Opera Festival debut in summer 2025. Formerly a professional magician, he is also a composer and award-winning dancer. His first opera, CATHBAD, with his own libretto, was published in 2023.

Born in Israel, soprano Doron Eshkol began her musical journey on the violin and in choirs, later studying voice with Ms. Efrat Ben Nun at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University. She has performed Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte, with fully studied roles including Susanna, Gretel, and Morgana. Her oratorio and Lieder repertoire features works by Mozart, Bach, and Carissimi. She has received multiple Excellence Scholarships and participated in masterclasses with renowned artists including Kevin Murphy, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Daniel Cohen.

Originally from Tyrol, Austrian soprano Lisa-Marie Hilber began vocal training with Wilfried Rogl at the Wipptal Music School, where she made her stage debut as Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 2015. Her stage experience includes Ernesto in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna (2019), Konrad in Michael F. P. Huber’s Der Bergkristall at the Tiroler Landestheater (2023), and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man (2024). In summer 2025, she will appear as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen. From 2018 to 2024, Lisa-Marie Hilber studied Vocal Performance with Prof. Martin Senfter at the Tyrolean State Conservatory

Born in St. Petersburg in 1995, soprano Ekaterina Spivakovskaia studied at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with KS Elena Filipova, building on earlier choral conducting training at the Rimsky-Korsakov institutions. She has sung Tatiana, Micaëla, and Pamina, with upcoming performances as Carmen in Vienna and France, and has appeared in major concert works such as Verdi’s Requiem at the Musikverein. A laureate and finalist of competitions including Voci Verdiane and the Mirjam Helin Competition, she is equally devoted to opera, sacred music, and art song.

Daria Iakubchik, born in Saint Petersburg, is a young soprano currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw) in Vienna. She has performed internationally at festivals such as the Taranto Opera Festival (Tosca) and the Vienna Opera Festival (Così fan tutte, Carmen), as well as in major venues including the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, the Moscow Rachmaninov Concert Hall, and Mozarthaus Vienna. A laureate of numerous international competitions, she has won multiple Grand Prix and awards between 2022 and 2025, including the Special Maurizio Ferrari Award in Verona.

Anastasia Kosmidou is a soprano currently studying at a Viennese conservatory while also working in the statisterie of the Vienna State Opera, where she shares the stage with renowned artists and gains invaluable theatrical experience. Alongside her musical path, she holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics, which deepens her interpretation of composers’ works. She is also a blogger, sharing her insights and experiences from the world of opera with a growing audience.

Ivan Maslov is a bass-baritone currently completing his Master’s degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he previously earned his Bachelor’s degree in classical singing. A former member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, he received his early musical formation through extensive international concert touring. His stage appearances include Bertran in Iolanta at the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, as well as Agamemnon and Gremin at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. Further repertoire includes Leporello, Il Commendatore and Figaro, presented in staged scene performances. Alongside his operatic work, he is regularly engaged in concert repertoire.

Saint Petersburg-born pianist Alla trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, and later with Prof. Benjamin Moser at Hochschule Luzern. She has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, KKL Lucerne, and Pierre Boulez Saal, and appeared at major festivals including Lucerne Festival and Heidelberger Frühling. A laureate of international competitions, she is active as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician, with collaborations ranging from the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester to recordings with Claves Records.

Anna Resch (née Panova), born in 1989 in Arkhangelsk, began piano at five with her mother. She studied at the Arkhangelsk Music School and College, graduating in 2008 as an instrumental teacher and répétiteur. She continued at the Maimonid State Classical Academy in Moscow from 2008 to 2013, focusing on piano with Elena Petrova and training in chamber music, accompaniment, and pedagogy. In 2016, she completed a Master’s in Concert Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Peter Józsa. She regularly accompanies singers in concerts, masterclasses, and competitions, with a repertoire focused on opera, operetta, and art song. Since 2016, she has been a pianist at the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera.

Olga Piccolo is the director and artistic leader of the Piccolo Children’s Music Academy and the Piccolo Music School in St. Petersburg, and also leads the Piccolo International Family Summer Music Camp. Her projects Tales of Musical Instruments and Music of Sand Stories are popular with young audiences. Using her own method, she combines classical music with fairy-tale narratives and sand animation.
Since 2018, she has performed these productions with symphony orchestras.

After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Makerere University, he developed a bold, expressive style that blends color, movement, and emotion. His paintings embody resilience and vulnerability, capturing wildlife’s gaze, city energy, and the emotions that connect us all.

Living and working in Slovakia as a painter, teacher, VJ and video mapping artist. 2014 he graduated bachelor, as well as the master in 2017 in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava at painting department. Gabor founded the Sérum Light Festival in Slovakia.

She studied painting at the Vienna School of Art and continued her education at the University of Applied Arts, as well as studying jazz singing at the conservatory.
Since 2001, she has focussed on fine art with exhibitions in Austria, Germany and Hungary.

Harry Ergott is an artist focused on people, emotions, and the play of colour and light. His large-scale works sit between portraiture, abstraction, and pop culture, direct and intense in tone. He held his first international exhibition in Bologna in 2016, and has since been represented by an international gallery based in Paris.

He studied design at the Vlasov Astrakhan Art School. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as production designer at the Astrakhan Drama Theater and has since been a full-time associate professor at the Department of Design at Astrakhan State University. His works are held in private collections in Russia, Europe, Finland, the USA, and in the Dogadin Astrakhan State Picture Gallery.

She currently lives in Lviv, where she is the founder and artistic director of Zhivago Theatre, author of most of its plays, and a coach in the theatre’s Workhouse of the Game. She is also the vocalist of the musical-performative project MRYAKA. Her works have been published in Dzvin, Dnipro, Artistic Faces, The Glass of Time, and in the miscellanies New Women’s Prose and Ordo Mysticus.

Elen has been painting for more than 15 years. Today her works are in private collections in Ukraine, Europe, the USA, Canada and other countries. Most of her works are landscapes and still lifes, which are imbued with love for nature and a special light and energy.

Valeriya Molochkova, born in Siberia in 2001, has lived in Moscow since childhood and studied urban planning at the Moscow Architectural Institute, where she focused on academic drawing. A young contemporary artist, she creates symbolic works in graphics and oil on canvas, often mixing techniques, exploring psychological themes and leaving space for personal interpretation.