YUN-JUI HSIEH, a Taiwanese operatic baritone, received his Master's degree in Music (vocal performance) from New York University in 2023. Yun-Jui will pursue his advanced diploma in Music Performance at Aaron Copland School of Music in Fall 2023. At NYU, Yun-Jui has been seen on stage in Orpheus in the Underworld (Styx), Dido and Aeneas (Ensemble, u/s Aeneas), and Idomeneo (Ensemble). Yun-Jui has also performed in Cendrillon (Pandolfe), The Tender Land (Top cover), and L'incoronazione di Poppea (Famigliari) with Chicago Summer Opera. Yun-Jui is slated to make his European stage debut this summer with Vienna Summer Music Festival, performing the role of Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Yun-Jui is also an enthusiast in choral arts. Prior to his arrival at NYU, Yun-Jui had been an active member of Müller Chamber Choir from Taipei, Taiwan. Notable concert credits include 2019 ACDA National Conference at Kauffman Center and People & the Land at National Concert Hall. Yun-Jui has also performed in National Theater and Concert Hall's Summer Jazz Party as a jazz vocalist. In addition, Yun-Jui is a music educator and conductor. Currently, Yun-Jui is studying orchestral conducting with Professor Josh Rosenblum at NYU. Yun-Jui holds a B.A. degree in economics cum laude from NYU College of Arts and Science.

ZACHARY GLICK, 22, Class of 2023 at the University of Chicago, pursued degrees in both Music and Molecular Engineering. Zach studies orchestral conducting with James Setapen, Director of the Academy at the Music Institute of Chicago, and has also studied privately with Barbara Schubert, Director of Music Performance at the University of Chicago. Zach attended the 2022 Conducting Workshop and Masterclass Series led by Maestro Donald Schleicher in Chicago, and he will be joining the International Conducting Workshop and Festival at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in June 2023. Zach is the founder and conductor of two University of Chicago student ensembles. No Strings Attached, is a wind octet dedicated to repertoire for these forces. The second recently completed study and performance of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll.

Zach’s music education began at the age of three at the Thurnauer School of Music as a Suzuki classical guitar student of Seth Himmelhoch, and upon moving to Chicago, he studied with Denis Azabagic at Roosevelt University. Zach’s guitar studies have taken him to the Eastern Music Festival (2019) and the Aspen Music Festival (2021). His life as a guitarist recently expanded to include his participation in a performance of “Ecco ridente” from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the University Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, Zach studied clarinet performance for 13 years and was a passionate member of the University Symphony Orchestra, in which he played both clarinet and bass clarinet. In July 2023, Zach will join the team at Kirkegaard, an architectural acoustics and integrated systems consulting practice, as an Acoustics Specialist. He looks forward to leveraging his backgrounds in music and engineering towards the design of concert halls and music education facilities while continuing to pursue advanced studies in conducting.