Andre Emelianoff is known worldwide as a cello soloist, chamber artist, and teacher whose innovative recital programs interweave new works, neglected older works and the classics of cello repertoire. He has toured as soloist and chamber artist throughout Japan, Russia, Austria and England as well as North America and has given recitals in central Asia and the Mediterranean as an American Ambassador for the Arts. Mr. Emelianoff has been principal cellist of the New York Chamber Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Musica Sacra and a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. As a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players, winner of the Naumburg Award and in residence at Bard College, he has participated in over 60 premiers and recorded Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunatre. A winner of a 1985 NEA Solo Recitalists award, Mr. Emelianoff has recorded for RCA, CRI, Opus One, New World Records, Nonesuch, GM Recordings, Bridge Records and Prop Arte. He has been guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Houston's Da Camera, Mozarteum Salzburg and the Round Top Festival in Texas. He is on the cello and chamber music faculty of the The Juilliard School of Music and its Pre- College Division.

Lyric tenor Thomas Young has appeared as a principal soloist in the major concert halls and opera houses of some 20 countries, and under the baton of, among others, Zubin Mehta, Roger Norrington, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Known for his unique dramatic and musical intelligence, as well as beauty of tone and exceptional technique, Mr. Young is recognized as today's foremost interpreter of tenor roles in contemporary opera. He has appeared in world premiere performances with the Chicago Lyric Opera, the New York City Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Opera de la Monnale in Brussels and the Tulsa Opera. In addition to his distinguished performance career, Mr. Young serves as a tenured Professor of Music at Sarah Lawrence College.

Fang Tao Jiang, soprano, made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in John Rutter's Requiem in the 2002-03 season. Since then, Ms. Jiang has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, performing many solo recitals and concerts. Recent performance highlights include a concert tour in China as soloist with the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra, Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Carmina Burana with the Hunter Symphony Orchestra, and Le nozze di Figaro (Susannah) at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. As an active soloist, Ms. Jiang has performed at numerous benefit events, appearing at the National Arts Club and the United Nations. In 2008, Ms. Jiang sang the leading role of Concepción in Ravel's L'heure espagnole at the French May Festival; the production tours Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Hanoi, and Tokyo.

Ana Mihanovic, mezzo-soprano, is from Spilt, Croatia. She has been a featured soloist with the Southwest Symphony, American West Symphony, Legacy Chorale and Utah Philharmonic, and has also appeared as a guest soloist with the Contemporary Music Consortium and Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. As a member of the University of Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble, Ana has performed in numerous productions including Street Scene, The Bartered Bride, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Orpheus in the Underworld. Just recently, Ana made her professional debut with San Antonio Opera singing Flora in their production of La Traviata. Ana also maintains an active involvement with Croatian Folk-Music Ensemble "Iskon," participating in competitions, performances, and recordings of the southern-Croatian folk song.

Ana is a five-time winner of the Northern Utah NATS Competition and is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards for her academic and performing achievements. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Utah School of Music where she studied with Robert Breault. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Manhattan School of Music in the studio of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell.

Jonathan Yates is the Music Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony and the conductor of the Principal Orchestra. Jonathan has earned high praise as a conductor, solo pianist, and collaborative artist for his musicianship, intellect, and the remarkable variety of his musical endeavors.

He made his professional orchestral conducting debut at 23, leading the National Symphony Orchestra in a Millennium Stages Concert.
The following year he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a participant in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop. Jonathan also serves as Music Director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, where he has been a driving force in reinvigorating the relationship between the symphony and its community.

He has collaborated as a pianist and conductor with many of the country’s most respected musicians, including Midori, Kim Kashkashian, David Finckel, Charles Neidich, Ida Kavafian, Colin Carr, Gilbert Kalish, Paul Neubauer, Joseph Lin, and William Purvis; and the Avalon, Daedalus and Pacifica Quartets. He has been heard as a chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, Miller Theater, Bargemusic and Merkin Hall, as well as at the Caramoor Festival and on the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars Series. As an ardent devotee of the music of our time, he has conducted new music concerts with the Argento Chamber Ensemble and the Knights, was the recipient of an ASCAP award for adventurous programming, and has given local and regional premieres of pre-eminent composers including Augusta Read Thomas, Huang Ruo, Zhou Long, Chester Biscardi, and Chen Yi.

Jonathan received his Graduate Diploma in conducting from the Juilliard School, where he studied with James DePreist and Otto-Werner Mueller, and was the holder of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship. He received his Master of Music from State University of New York, where he worked with Gilbert Kalish, and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Levin. His past work includes serving as founding Music Director of Camerata Notturna, as Music Director of Music Mountain, and on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. He was recently named Director of Classical Series at 23Arts Windham Music and Jazz Fest. He descends from a family that has been on the forefront of the battles for the cultural and humanistic life of our country. His grandfather, U. S. Representative Sidney R. Yates, was the principal defender of the National Endowment for the Arts in his 48 years in Congress, and his father, the Honorable Stephen R. Yates, was the first judge in Illinois to approve same-sex adoption.