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.  

Richard Zeller is internationally acclaimed for both his concert and opera roles. During the 2014-2015 season he sang the title role in Elijah with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. During the 2015-2016 season he returns to the Winter Park Bach Festival for the St. Matthew Passion and Rossini’s Stabat Mater. 

American contralto Emily Marvosh has been gaining recognition for her “flexible technique and ripe color,” “sterling voice,” and “graceful allure” on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Disney Hall, Prague’s Smetana Hall, and Vienna’s Stefansdom. Engagements for the 2015-2016 season include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, and Bach’s St. John Passion with the Handel and Haydn Society; John Corigliano’s Three Irish Folk Tunes with the Worcester Chamber Music Society; Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Chorus Pro Musica; Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra; Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Boston Baroque; and Handel’s Messiah with Music Worcester and the Rhode Island Philharmonic.

Conductor Steven Fox is Artistic Director of The Clarion Orchestra and The Clarion Choir, and Founder of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg, which he established as Russia’s first period-instrument orchestra at the age of 21. In recent seasons, he has made his debut as a guest conductor with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, l'Opéra de Québec, and Chicago Music of the Baroque. Upcoming debuts include the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. From 2008 to 2013 he was an Associate Conductor at New York City Opera, and he has served as Assistant Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and Juilliard Opera.

Bernard Labadie has established himself worldwide as one of the leading conductors of the Baroque and Classical repertoire, a reputation that is closely tied into his work with Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec, both of which he founded and continues to lead as music director. With these two ensembles he regularly tours Canada, the US and Europe, in major venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, The Barbican, The Concertgebouw, and the Salzburg Festival, among others.