- Roger Bryant, tenor is an Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he teaches Voice, Diction for Singers, and Graduate Vocal Pedagogy. He has also taught at Texas Christian University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Ambassador University. In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Voice at the University of Texas at Tyler, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Paris Junior College. He has been a finalist in the Lyric Opera of Chicago auditions, a national winner of the San Francisco Opera auditions, and has performed with the Spring Opera Theater, a subsidiary company of the San Francisco Opera. Mr. Bryant has performed with the Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Akron, and New Mexico Symphony Orchestras, among others. He has also performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the William Hall Chorale, and the Bodensee Symphonie Orchester of Germany. He has been a member of the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, appearing as tenor soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, on the group's tour of southern France. He performed the same work in Carnegie Hall as a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Mr. Bryant has earned the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degrees, and has been awarded the Performer's Certificate in Voice, all from Texas Christian University.
- Marius Cisar has been since 1994 an active live theatre performer working for Sica Alexandrescu Brasov Company, where he has interpreted over fifty roles. Among numerous live performances, his repertoire includes two international film productions in the USA and Germany and three Romanian films: The Death Triangle (Triunghiul Mortii), The Woman in Red (Femeia in rosu) and The Nervous System (Sistemul Nervous). In 2009 he became the general and artistic manager of REDUTA Cultural Center in Brasov and the producer of numerous national and international artistic events such as: Saptamana Comediei National Theatre Festival, Garofita Pietrei Craiului International Folk Festival, Marile Serate Muzicale International Chamber Music Festival among many others. He is a graduate of George Enescu Art Academy, Iasi.
- Mihaela Buhaiciuc is currently a full-time voice faculty at Transilvania University of Brasov, where she coordinates the vocal performance area. Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as Mozart’s Susanna, Despina, Zerlina; Haendel’s Nerone; Bizet’s Micaela; Britten’s Miles, Mrs. Hayes in Floyd’s Suzannah among others. Buhaiciuc performed in the U.S.A., and Europe with Mobile Opera, Stony Brook Opera of SBU New York, South Florida Lyric Opera Co., and Brasov Opera, Romania and in venues such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Mobile Civic Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York etc. Her repertoire includes oratorios, art songs and chamber music from Baroque to postmodernists. She has been rewarded the Megginson Research Award for 2010 by the University of Mobile, where she has been a five year full-time voice faculty. She presented works at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK; the International Academic Forum, Osaka, Japan; International Congress of Voice Teachers, Paris, France; George Enesco International Festival, New York City. She is the author of the book: The Art of Singing. The Science of Emotions. Buhaiciuc holds a Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in voice performance from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Koichiro Kanno is currently permanent conductor of Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Japan and Orchestra Collegium Musicum Kronstadt, Romania. He was a conductor for Brasov Opera, Romania; vocal coach and assistant conductor of Opernfestspiele Heidenheim, Germany; collaborative pianist and vocal coach of Opera Bergen, Norway; Vienna Opera Company, Wien Pygmalion Theater among others. He studied at the Toho-Gakuen School of Music, Japan and the Universitäte für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Wien in Austria. He had as mentors: Morihiro Okabe, Naoto Otomo, Kazushi Ono, Leopold Hager, Ervin Acel, Mark Stringer, Yuji Yuasa, Julius Kalmar and Isaac Karabtchevsky.
- Mihaela Pavel is currently a freelance pianist and adjunct accompanist in the music department at Transilvania University, Brasov. Among her previous employers are: G. Enescu Art University from Iasi, where she worked as a collaborative pianist for six years; P. Sandor High School of Music, Sf. Georghe; and O. Bancila National College of Art, Iasi, where she also taught accompaniment and piano. She pursued her doctoral studies in piano performance, specializing in Rachmaninov at G. Enescu Art University, Iasi. Her mentors were: Ioan Welt, Maria Toronciuc and Adina Susnea. She has worked in master classes with Andreas Henkel, Martin Helmchen, Istvan Dominko, David Danel, Judith Emert–Robe, Patricio Diaz, Pascal Salomon, Joshua Epstein, Herwig Zack, Silke Thora- Mathies and Serban Lupu. Mihaela Pavel is the recipient of the Socrate scholarship at the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milano where she studied with Emanuela Piemonti and Maria Grazia Grauso.
- Bianca Oichea is a multifaceted artist combing in a creative way dance and theater with multimedia and technology. Her education includes two years at the University of Theatrical Arts in Bucharest, where she studied choreography, followed by two years at the University of Paris at Saint-Denis, where she graduated in choreography with a minor in digital technologies for stage. Her style is strongly inspired by techniques of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch and Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. She worked under Myriam Gourfink, Virginia Haynee, Enrico Tedde, Frederic Werle, Bruno Sajous, Anna Wehsarg and Armando Menicacci. Bianca Oichea has been recently involved in regional projects with Sica Alexandrescu State Theater, Reduta Cultural Centre, retART Association and her own SIC Association through which she regularly develops funded projects.