Twenty-four-year-old pianist Michel Ross holds a Master of Music from the University of Toronto, where he studied collaborative and solo piano with Stephen Philcox, Lydia Wong and Henri-Paul Sicsic. He has been awarded numerous trophies and scholarships for his abilities in the fields of vocal coaching, solo piano and chamber music. Michel recently toured South America with the Toronto Children’s Chorus, performing concerts in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Puerto Madryn. In Toronto, he has performed at Roy Thomson Hall, the Glenn Gould Studio and the Toronto Centre for the Arts.

Sofia Mycyk is currently completing her Masters degree in Piano performance at the Université de Montréal under the tutelage of the renowned pedagogue Prof. Marc Durand. Previous teachers included Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory in Boston as well as Bonnie Nicholson, Kathleen Solose and Nadia March in Saskatoon. She received her Royal Conservatory of Music Performer’s ARCT Diploma in 2004 with First Class Honors with Distinction.

Claudia made her concert debut at age 11 playing the first movement of Mozart's Concerto in C major K415 with the Thirteen Strings chamber orchestra, under the direction of Jean-François Rivest. The following year, she recorded Chopin's Polonaise in G-sharp Minor for TVOntario's MusicMakers series. Her participation in the National Capital Kiwanis Music Festival since 1998 has earned her many honours.

Born in England, raised in Western Canada and currently based in the Toronto area, saxophonist Stephen Fox began his university studies in physics, achieving a Master of Science degree with a thesis in theoretical plasma physics from the University of Saskatchewan, before deciding on a career in music and receiving a Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree.

Catherine Manoukian won the grand prize at the 1994 Canadian Music Competition at the age of twelve and has never looked back. She was born in Toronto, began violin studies with her father, and made her first stage appearance at the age of four. From 1994 to 2000, Catherine studied with the late, world-renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy Delay of New York.

Prize-winning violinist Amir Safavi began his violin studies when he was five years old. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT), he received the Gold Medal for the highest mark on the Performance Examination in Canada.

A student of the Curtis Institute of Music, Katya Poplyansky started her violin studies with Professor Oleg Pokhanovski in Winnipeg in 2002. Five years later, at the age of fifteen, she began her Bachelor of Music at Peabody Conservatory, studying with Victor Danchenko. Although the youngest student at the school, she was runner-up in Peabody’s William Marbury Competition, open to all string majors.

Born in Toronto and raised in Victoria, Alberta Brown began flute studies at the age of eight with Dr. Mary Byrne at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Since that time she has received many awards and scholarships both through the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival, the British Columbia Provincial Festival, and the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Alberta is an active musician and enjoys performing.