Russian-American bass Nikita Storojev performs in the world's major opera houses, great concert halls and international festivals in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Florence, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Vienna. He has 25 commercial recordings and five DVDs, recorded under the direction of such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, John Nelson, Sir John Pritchard, and Mstislav Rostropovich. During the 2015-16 season, he will sing in Johnstown Symphony Orchestra’s annual opera gala.

The celebrated Slovenian pianist Tomsic enjoys "something of a cult status among pianophiles" (Gramophone Magazine), with performances that convey "heroic power and Olympian vision" (Los Angeles Times) as well as "splendor, drama, passion, poetry, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). The only protégé of legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein, who considered her "a perfect and marvelous pianist," she gave her first public recital at age five and later embarked on an international career that took her to five continents, performing more than forty-five hundred concerts to date.  

Winner of the prestigious CMA Cleveland Quartet Award, Philadelphia's Jasper String Quartet is the Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians. The Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and "powerful" (New York Times). "The Jaspers... match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments." (New Haven Advocate) The quartet records exclusively for Sono Luminus and have released three highly acclaimed albums: Beethoven Op. 131, The Kernis Project: Schubert, and The Kernis Project: Beethoven.

Pianist Katherine Chi, firmly established as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars, has performed throughout Europe and North America to great acclaim. “Ms Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique,” notes the New York Times. Recent and upcoming performances for the 2015-16 season include appearances with the Vancouver, Edmonton, and Thunder Bay Symphonies, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Missoula Symphony in Montana, and concerts at the Library of Congress and Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.

Recognized for the luminosity and effortless agility of her voice, as well as her commanding stage presence and profound acting ability, Canadian soprano Shannon Mercer enthusiastically embraces a range of repertoire from early to contemporary music, from Francesca Caccini and Monteverdi to John Beckwith and Ana Sokolovic. Shannon maintains a busy and challenging performance calendar of opera, concert, and recital engagements throughout North America and Europe while also sustaining an active recording presence, capturing some rarely performed works. In the 2015-2016 season, audiences will hear Shannon sing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Calgary Opera; Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Mozart’s Esultate, Jubilate with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra; and the Messiah with the Oregon Symphony.