Katherine Lerner (mezzo-soprano) studies with Daune Mahy at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she is a senior pursuing degrees in vocal performance and historical performance. Most recently, Ms. Lerner has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, singing the roles of Mater Gloriosa, Maria Aegyptiaca, and Schuld in Schumann's Scenes from Faust. On the Oberlin stage, she has sung the roles of Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmelites), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), and Apollo/Mystery/Juno (The Fairy Queen). Additional performances include those of the Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas) at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, and of Mother Goose (The Rake's Progress) with the Chautauqua Opera. She has been a finalist in the Opera Columbus and Dayton competitions, and recently received an Encouragement Award at the Cleveland District Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. Her upcoming performances include Mozart's Coronation Mass (alto soloist) with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Chorus, the role of Frau Reich in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor with the Oberlin Opera Theatre, and a summer apprenticeship with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where she will cover the role of the Sandman (Hansel and Gretel).

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Megan Glover (piano) studies with Alvin Chow at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has won numerous prizes from the Conservatory's piano department, including the Rudolf Serkin Piano Prize and the John Elvin Piano Prize. Ms. Glover took first place in the Arthur Dann Senior Piano Competition last spring, and won the Senior Concerto Competition this past fall. She has earned top prizes in national competitions, including the Fite Family Young Artist National Competition and the Cincinnati World Piano Competition (Junior Division), and has received honors and awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the National Alliance for Excellence. In 2002, Ms Glover was one of four pianists chosen nationwide to participate in the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts annual ARTS Week in Miami, where she was awarded a scholarship. Most recently, she won the Raymond & Goldie Morris Award at the 2005 Nena Wideman Piano Competition in Shreveport, Louisiana. Ms. Glover will graduate this spring with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and a minor in musicology.

Megan Hart (soprano), a native of Oregon, is currently pursuing her Master's degree in opera theater at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Ms. Hart studied with Richard Miller until his recent retirement; she currently studies with Lorraine Manz. Her performances with the Oberlin Opera Theater include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte (2006), Blanche in Les dialogues des Carmélites (2005), The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro (2005), Venus in Orpheus in theUnderworld (2004), Lady Billows in Albert Herring (2004), and The Witch and The Mother in Hänsel und Gretel (2003). This past summer she was a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre St. Louis and covered the role of Juliet in Romeo andJuliet. She was also a Young Artist at Opera North and sang Gianetta in The Gondoliers and The Bat in L'enfant et les Sortilèges. Her upcoming engagements include Elle in La voix humaine.

Zoe Weiss (viola da gamba) grew up in Ithaca, New York, and is currently a senior at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, majoring in historical performance. She studies baroque cello and viola da gamba with Catharina Meints. Ms. Weiss has taught an introductory viola da gamba class at Oberlin for the past three years. She is a member of the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, led by Jeanette Sorrell, the Oberlin Viol Consort, led by Catharina Meints, and sings in the Collegium Musicum, led by Steven Plank. She also enjoys playing continuo for many student recitals.

Ben Katz (harpsichord) is a performer of early and contemporary music for the harpsichord. Prior to coming to Oberlin, Katz studied with harpsichordist Arthur Haas. At Oberlin he has studied with Lisa Goode Crawford, and is currently a student of Webb Wiggins, the Conservatory's newly appointed professor of harpsichord. Mr. Katz's recent concert activity has included a solo recital at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in New York City, an all-Bach program at a fundraiser for Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS, and An Evening of Young Composers at The Project Room in New York City, a show which Mr. Katz curated, wrote, and performed. As a continuo player Mr. Katz has collaborated frequently with baroque violinist Evan Few.

Jorge Mejia (horn) began his musical studies in Cost Rica at the age of 10, first with his father, and soon thereafter with Luis Murillo at the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica, where he was awarded the Gold Medal for Young Soloists. He won the Maddy Award in 2001 at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Mr. Mejia has performed several times with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Americas, and is in his first year as a performance diploma candidate, studying with Roland Pandolfi at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Farhad Hudiyev (violin) is originally from Ashgabad, Turkmenistan, where he studied violin and composition with Vera Abaeva at the Special Music School. He distinguished himself at the age of 10 as the youngest performer ever selected to play with the National Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan, and at 12 he won a scholarship to attend the New Names Festival in Suzdahl Russia, which was sponsored by the Moscow Conservatory. He was named the most promising young musician at the festival, and earned the top award, the Golden Apple. Mr. Hudiyev has performed in Ashgabad, Suzdah, Moscow, and Odessa (Ukraine) as both a soloist and a member of the violin ensemble of Turkmenistan. He came to the United States in 2001 under a full scholarship with the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied with Paul Sonner and Michael Albaugh. He is currently in his second year of study with Milan Vitek at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan began studying music at the age of nine with his father in Baku, Azerbaijan. Upon graduation from the Moscow Conservatory Pre-College Division in 2001, he entered the Moscow State Conservatory. He is currently enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studies clarinet with Richard Hawkins. Mr. Allakhverdyan has won numerous competitions, including the Rozanov International Clarinet Competition (Moscow, 2000) and the Rimsky-Korsakov Clarinet Competition (St. Petersburg, 2000). He also has taken part in such festivals as the Musical Kremlin Festival, and has performed as a soloist and with orchestras in Russia, Germany, and the United States.

Anastasia Dedik (piano) was born into a family of musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia, and began lessons with her mother at the age of five. Upon her graduation from the pre-conservatory division of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she studied with Asya Rubina, Ms. Dedik entered the Conservatory division, where she earned both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees under Elena Shishko and Valery Vishnevsky. Ms. Dedik has won numerous competitions, including the 2004 Oberlin Concerto Competition, and has performed in Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Holland, and the United States. She has participated in the master classes of Natalia Trull, Andrey Diev, Lev Naumov, Vladimir Krainev, Edith Fisher, Howard Aibel, Russell Sherman, Vladimir Viardo, and Mario Delli Ponti. This season, Ms. Dedik will perform with the Nova Vista Symphony Orchestra in California, and present recitals in Germany, Italy, and Russia. She is enrolled in the Artist Diploma program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Sedmara Z. Rutstein.