American baritone Brandon Hendrickson is hailed by Opera News Magazine as having a “mellifluous,” and “beautiful baritone.” Hendrickson has interpreted standard and contemporary opera, musical theater, concert work, and recital repertoire on domestic and international stages. Hendrickson has performed with many nationally recognized opera companies around the United States including the Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Annapolis Opera, and The Dallas Opera. His performances on the operatic stage have included key roles such as the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Conte Almaviva and Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Doctor Bartolo in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Marcello and Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème, the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Falke in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Hendrickson currently serves as Associate Professor of Voice at the Louisiana State University School of Music.

Meredith Stemen is a pianist and teacher from Pensacola, Florida who is consistently applauded for her powerful command of the keyboard, sensitive musicality, and vibrant collaborative spirit. She recently served as a vocal coach for the opera program at Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she worked with the World Youth Honors Choir and Interlochen Singers. She is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano at Louisiana State University, where she holds a full graduate assistantship in the collaborative piano department. During her tenure at LSU she frequently worked with the LSU Chamber Singers and Contemporary New Music Ensemble and also taught private piano and lyric diction. She was recently appointed as one of the 2024 collaborative piano fellows for the Aspen Music Festival. Meredith holds degrees from the University of West Florida and the University of Florida and is an instructor of music at the Williams School of Music at UWF.

A Winner of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, tenor Carlos Enrique Santelli is a graduate of Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, where he covered Nadir in The Pearl Fishers. Notable appearances have included Count Almaviva in San Diego Opera's production of The Barber of Seville, Pong and Tybalt with Houston Grand Opera's productions of Turandot and Romeo et Juliette, as well as Valcour in the rarely performed Anonymous Lover with the Minnesota Opera. On the concert stage, Santelli has performed with the likes of the Sacramento Choral Society, the Boise Philharmonic, the Virginia Philharmonic, and The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan, and a doctorate from Louisiana State University, and serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music.