Soprano Yewon Han was born in Seong-Nam, South Korea. She started her study in KayWon Arts High School in 2014. She earned Bachelor of Arts degree with the highest honor from Seoul National University in 2021. She studied with Attila Jun.

Yewon Han’s operatic debut was an ‘Amahl’ in Gian Carlo Menotti’s "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in 2018. Since then, she has established herself as an Opera Singer.
In 2019, Yewon performed as a ‘Lauretta’ in Puccini’s "Gianni Schicchi" in Seoul National University. She made successful opening night in Paolo Panizza’s production. After that performance, she selected as a role of ‘Papagena’ in Mozart’s "Die Zauberflöte" at Art Center Incheon in 2020.
She has received numerous awards in many nationally acclaimed competitions. In 2020, She won First Prizes in JoongAng Music Concours, Korean Voice Competition, KBS KEPCO Music Competition, and Korean Classical Singers Association International Vocal Competition. In addition, she has won Gold Prize in Korea National Opera Competition (2020), First Prize in Vocal Music Competition of Gwangju (2021), and Grand Prize in Vocal Music Competition of Daegu (2021).

Summer 2021, Yewon began her international career. She won third Prize of the International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen 2021/2022 in Germany. She also won first Prize in Concurso Tenor Viñas (2023) in Spain.
Yewon has completed her 2021/2022 season as Young Artist in the Korea National Opera Studio. And she is going to begin her 2022/2024 season as an International Opera Studio Young Artist in the Opernhaus Zürich...

Yulia Merkudinova, Ukrainian lyric coloratura soprano, with brilliant high notes and warm color of voice .

She graduated with honors from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kiev (Ukraine) and continued her studies in Italy, where she currently lives.

She won numerous international competitions and, lastly, the good placement in 2nd place of the 60th Tenor Viñas Competition, also winning 4 further prizes.
She has performed for opera houses in Ferrara, Padova, Treviso, Rovigo, Parma, Daegu (South Korea), Reggio Emilia, Livorno.
Yulia's repertoire includes such roles as: Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni" by W.A.Mozart); Gilda ("Rigoletto" by G.Verdi); Norina ("Don Pasquale" by G. Donizetti); Adina ("L'Elisir d'amore" by G.Donizetti); Lakmé ("Lakmé" by L. Delibes); Juliette ("Roméo and Juliette" Ch. Gounod); Lucia ("Lucia di Lammermoor" by G.Donizetti); Rosina (“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by G. Rossini); Adalgisa ("Norma" by V.Bellini); Giulia "La Scala di Seta" G. Rossini)
A few days ago, she finished recording a chamber music disc with the famous conductor and pianist, Leone Magiera, with whom she studies and often collaborates.

She has performed with acclaimed artists such as, for example, Leo Nucci, Michele Pertusi, Fabio Armiliato, Simone Piazzola…. and other.

Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk is the recipient of four prizes at 2023 edition of Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona, including the third prize overall and the prize as better performer of Wagner. Morover she is the winner of First Prize and Audience Prize at the “Hans Gabor” Belvedere International Singing Competition 2023.
Since the 2022/23 season, she is a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich, where she has already sung First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Maria Bellacanta in Hexe Hillary geht in die Oper, and she also covers leading roles as Tatjana in Evgenij Onegin and Agathe in Der Freischütz. 
She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in Summer 2022, performing in three production: Parsifal (Blumenmädchen), Janáček’s Kát'a Kabanová, Lucia di Lammermoor (Alisa alongside Lisette Oropesa and Benjamin Bernheim). 

Born in Hagen, Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk began her studies in December 2014 with Melanie Maennl, who continues to be her vocal coach. She gained her earliest experience of the stage as a child soloist at the Theater Hagen, where she appeared in several operas, including Die Zauberflöte, The cunning little vixen and Der Rosenkavalier, all under the baton of Music Director M° Florian Ludwig.

Between 2018 and 2022 she has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold with Markus Köhler and Manuel Lange, and while studying she performed the role of Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and as soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk has been awarded in several international singing competitions: in 2022 she received the scholarship awarded by the three Berlin opera houses at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin, in 2021 she won the “Iris Adami Corradetti” Competition in Padova (Italy) as well as the international Brahms Lied Competition in Pörtschach (Austria). In 2019 she won the international Giulio Perotti Competition with the distinction: Grand Prix in all categories, special prize for the best interpretation of a German Lied and special prize for an extraordinary voice. She is also a laureate of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.

She will appear in the forthcoming productions of Macbeth, Die lustige Witwe and Die Wallküre (Ortlinde)
at Zurich Opera House.

Tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro continues to draw attention for his warm Italianate sound and compelling stage presence. In 2023, Mr. Ciaramitaro made his mainstage debut as Fenton in Falstaff at Palm Beach Opera, returns to LA Opera as Cassio in Otello, and makes his international and role debuts as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata at The Macerata Opera Festival in Italy, under Maestro Domenico Longo. In 2022, Mr. Ciaramitaro made his professional and house debuts in the demanding role of Giorgio in Ricky Ian Gordon’s world premiere The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with New York City Opera, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor with LA Opera, and made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Il Messaggero in Aïda. 

Mr. Ciaramitaro is a former Domingo-Coburn-Stein Young Artist at LA Opera, where he performed Il Messaggero in Aïda, Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, and Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux.  Mr. Ciaramitaro was an inaugural member of the Renée Fleming Fellowship at the Aspen Musical Festival, where he debuted Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.  In previous seasons, he appeared as an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera, an Apprentice Artist with the Palm Beach Opera, and a Studio Artist with Arizona Opera; performing Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Governor/Vanderdendur in Candide.  As a member of the Merola Opera Program, Mr. Ciaramitaro performed Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, and has been and a StudioArtist with Chautauqua Opera and Wolf Trap Opera.

In competition, Mr. Ciaramitaro was awarded 4th Official Prize, the Placido Domingo Tenor Prize, and the Verdi Special Prize at the 60th Tenor Viñas Contest, won the  CulturArte Prize at Operalia 2022, 2nd place at the 2022 Butler Opera International Vocal Competition, 3rd place in the 2022 Lorhen L. Zachary National Vocal Competition, 2nd place in the 2021 Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition, and 3rd place in Vero Beach Opera Rising Stars Competition.

Soprano Julia Muzychenko is the recent 5th prize Winner of the Tenor Viñas Competition, Grand Prize Winner of the Clermont Ferrand International Opera Competition, 2nd Prize Winner of the Monserrat Caballe Competition and the 'Meistersinger von Nürnberg'Competition (1st place and audience prize), 55'Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane città di Bussetto, International Competition 'Opera de Tenerife' (1st place and audience prize) Eva Marton Competition (3rd place).
Current and future engagements include her debut as Swan Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) with Opéra national du Rhin, Violetta (La Traviata) with Teatro Comunale di Bologna and a concert with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker at the Heidenheim Festival.
 

Recent highlights include Gilda (Rigoletto), Nanetta (Falstaff) and Norina (Don Pasquale) with National Opera Montpellier, the title role in Lakme with the Les Nuit Lyriques de Marmande Festival, Oksana (The Night Before Christmas Eve) with Oper Frankfurt, which was recorded and distributed on DVD by Naxos. Additionally she has sung Amina (La Sonnambula) with Opera Limoges, Opera d’Avignon, Opera de Metz.

Julia recently was a Junges Ensemble member of the Dresden Semperoper, where her roles included Musetta (La Boheme), Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte).
Ms. Muzychenko was also selected to be a soloist at the famed Semper Opernball 2020.
Additionally she performed as Violetta Valery (La Traviata) at the Verdi Festival in Bussetto, and Opera de Tenerife.
Ms. Muzychenko has completed her training as a member of the Bolshoi Theater's Young Artist Program, and Houston Grand Opera's Vocal Academy.

Russian American Soprano, Erika Baikoff, is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, during which she made her MET debut singing Xenia in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. Other recent engagements include the soprano solo in Bach’s B minor Mass with Orchestre Métropolitain, Woglinde in Das Rheingold with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, recitals with the Schubertìada festival in Spain and concerts with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Erika is the first prize winner of the Concours International de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Helmet Deutsch Liedwettbewerb, George London Foundation Awards and Mondavi Young Artist Competition.

Born in San Sebastián, Spain, Carmen Artaza began her musical training by playing the violin at the Francisco Escudero Conservatory and singing in the Araoz Gazte Choir. The young mezzo-soprano is currently studying with Professor Michelle Breedt at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. The winner of the first prize of the 58th Tenor Viñas Contest was also awarded 5 other prizes, among which were the Mozart prize and the audience prize. In January 2020, the mezzo-soprano won the first prize at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb in Berlin. In 2018 she won the Audience Award, the Young Talents Award and the First Prize at the Luis Mariano International Competition in Spain. In the summer of 2019, Carmen makes her debut at the Salzburger Festsiele playing the role of Bradamante in the new children's composition Gesang der Zauberinsel, as part of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival. Artaza has performed both opera and concert in theaters such as the Barbican Center in London or the Berlin Philharmonic and she has worked with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Symphony or the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. At a 2018 BBC total immersion concert, Carmen performed and recorded Enrique Granados' La maja dolorosa I, II, III for BBC3.

"The 58th edition of the Viñas Contest has been a special event, especially in the conditions of pandemic in which it has been celebrated. Being able to sing before a so professional jury and above all, in front of a magnificent audience has fetched this week an event that I will never forget. I am feeling full of gratitude, of music and of joy after these days full of feelings. For me singing in the stage of the Liceu has been fulfilling a dream that I will not forget."

Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Olga Syniakova is a graduate of the Dnipro Academy of Music where she received Bachelor degrees in Vocal Performance, vocal teacher. Ms. Syniakova was studying in opera studio Placido Domingo in Valencia from September 2017 till July 2019. There she made concerts and masterclasses and various roles as Ernesto from Il Mondo della Luna, Second lady from The Magic Flute , Laura from  Iolanta, Alisa from Lucia di Lammermoor. Olga Syniakova took part in the Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, conducted by Fabio Biondi. After the same project she sang with huge orchestra Europa Galante conductor Fabio Biondi in St. Petri Dom Bremen where this masterpiece closed Bremen Musikfest in September 2018. Ms. Syniakova has an award “The best mezzo-soprano of season 2018-2019” in Palau de les Arts (Valencia, Spain). In 2020 she made her debut in Real Filharmonía de Galicia in role Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice).

“It was amazing, full of joy, happiness and pleasure week in Barcelona! I met my friends with whom I started my professional development in Valencia in Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo and during the competition I made a lot of new friends. The atmosphere between participants was friendly, supportive! It is sad that this time we could not hug, make toï toï toï presents, couldn’t see smiles of each other, but our eyes shine even more expressive now! I had real luck because I could make music with the best pianist Stanislav Angelov and this triumph I would like to share with him!”

Born in Misiones (Argentina), Germán E. Alcántara began his studies at the School of Music in Misiones receiving the diploma of Professor of Arts: Music. Later he studied at the University of Cuyo (Mendoza), Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris (under Rosa Dominguez) and the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid (with Ryland Davies). He is currently studying for a Doctorate in Music and Performance, with the project “Cantocando: challenges of self-accompaniment”, at the University of Aveiro - Portugal.

Graduated from the Jette Parker Young Artist Program at the Royal Opera House in London, where he debuted in the 2018/19. During the 2019/20 season he appears again as Wagner (Faust) in "ROH-Japan", in addition to: Steersman (Tristan und Isolde) and Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly). His awards include Golden Medal (high distinction) of the 5th Manhathan Competition 2020, Laureat in Queen Elizabeth Competition 2018, First Prize in the Bach Joven Competition in Paraguay, Second Prize in the Competition for Young Students of Lyrical Singing in Buenos Aires, Premier Prix in Concours Lyrique International ad Alta Voce in Paris and Priz Artifex Proart in the Zarzuela Contest of Valleseco, Spain.

“Perhaps one of the most important adventures in these times, being able to participate in this contest; singing for such a warm and grateful audience is the greatest award a singer can dream of! That Spain is today the standard of the Opera on the international level and this Viñas Contest its standard bearer are not coincidences when the people loves the lyrical art so much and when there are people willing to move heaven and earth to keep the flame alive. My deep thanks to the organization, for this contest and for these wonderful awards; to the jury and to the much loved public. I hope to meet you again soon!!”

Vasily Sokolov was born on January 20, 1995 in the city of Irkutsk. In 2011, he entered the Fryderyk Chopin College of Music in the department of academic vocal. In 2015, he graduated from college and entered the GITIS Faculty of Musical Theater on the course of Andres Zhagars, in the same year he took the academy for military service on conscription. He served in the Alexandrov Ensemble, performed at various venues around the world. Since 2017, he has been a soloist of the B. A. Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theater (since September 2018, the Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia).

"I really liked the contest! It was a huge experience for me! The organization was at the highest level! The accommodation was comfortable! The concertmaster was a wonderful musician! Thank you very much! I'll never forget it!!"

Chuan Wang was born in Luoyang, China, and started learning singing at 17. He graduated from Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Milan Verdi Conservatory, and La Scala Accademia. He won the First Prizes in the 7th Salvatore Licitra International Lyric Opera Competition and the Second Prizes in the 5th Portofino International Lyric Opera Competition.

From 2017 to 2020, he performed many roles in La Scala, such as Almaviva from the children’s version of Il Barbiere di Siviglia;  Nemorino from the children’s version of L’elisir d’amore; Ramiro from the children’s version of La Cenerentola; Calaf from Cherubini’s Alì Babà ; Rinuccio from Gianni Schicchi and the Duke from Rigoletto. In 2021, he will sing Ernesto from Don Pasquale in Parma Opera House and Gernando and Ubaldo from Armida in Marseille Opera.

"It was a wonderful experience to take part in the 58th Viñas competition. The organization was perfect, especially considering the current situation with COVID-19. I’m incredible grateful to everyone who worked so hard to make the music happen and I would like to thank the distinguished jury for the prizes and helpful advice. Congratulations to all the young singers who took part in the competition and I wish them all the best in their future careers."

Inna Demenkova studied at the Moscow Regional Basic Music College named after A. N. Scriabin (Professor's class Nikulina N. B.) and V. S. Popov Academy of Choral Art (Professor N. B. Nikulina.). She is winner of numerous prizes at international and national competitions, including the 6th Pize and the special prize for the performance of the Russian repertoire in the 58 International Singing Contest Tenor Viñas (Barcelona, Spain), Abdrazakovfest 2020 educational program (Moscow), Grand Prix winner of the VI All-Russian Sobinov vocal competition and Opera Competition Golden Autumn in Chengdu, China.

Recent highlights include the closing of the Abdrazakovfesti festival – Gala Verdi (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory) and the performance “Amadeus. Laboratory of Opera” (Novaya Opera Theater) in 2020; Spiritual concert (P. I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall), educational tour “Masterpieces of world culture” in 23 cities of Russia and Gran Opera Gala Concert (Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory) in 2019.

Demenkova’s opera repertory includes: recitative and aria of Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, Amalia’s aria and stretta from I Masnadieri, Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme, The romance of Antonia from Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rimsky-Korsakov aria.

Aigul Khismatullina was born in Naberezhnye Chelny (Republic of Tatarstan). In 2014 she graduated from the Kazan State Zhiganov Conservatory (class of Klara Khayrutdinova), following which she undertook an assistant traineeship under Albina Shagimuratova (2014–2016). Since 2016 she has been a soloist at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok. In 2017 she became a grant-recipient of the Atkins Young Artists Program Fellowship at the Mariinsky Theatre. She made her Mariinsky Theatre debut as The Nightingale in Stravinsky's opera Le Rossignol.

• Prize-winner at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition (2019, 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 56^th International Tenor Viñas Singing Contest (Barcelona, 2019, 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Music Competition (2014, Moscow, 1st prize)

Ivan Ayon Rivas was born in 1993 in Perù. He studied opera under the tutelage of María Eloisa Aguirre at the National Conservatory of Music of Perù. He pursued his studies with Juan Diego Florez, Ernesto Palacio, Vincenzo Scalera, Maurizio Colaccichi and Luigi Alva. He is currently studying in Italy with baritone Roberto Servile.

In November 2014 he made his debut in Ludwigshafen/BASF in a Gala with Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, in the benefit concert of Juan Diego Florez, under the baton of Fabio Luisi.

He sang in Mercadante’s Francesca Rimini at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca conducted by Fabio Luisi, where he came back the following year in Un giorno di regno.

• Prize-winner at the Peruvian national Competition for Opera Singers (2013, 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 1st Concorso Internazionale di Canto “Premio Etta Limiti” (2015, 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 56th International Tenor Viñas Singing Contest (Barcelona, 2019, 1st prize)

During the 2018/19 season, Liv Redpath makes her role debut as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel conducted by James Conlon at the Los Angeles Opera. She will sing a concert of Handel and Rameau arias with Christophe Rousset, reprise the role of Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos for Cincinnati Opera, and cover Bess in Breaking the Waves at the Edinburgh International Festival. Concert appearances include Mozart’s Requiem and Kirchner’s Songs of Ascent with Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, in addition to Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges as Le feu/la princesse/le rossignol with the Pacific Symphony. Past seasons include Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at The Santa Fe Opera, L’amour in John Neumeier’s new production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, as well as Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann with the Los Angeles Opera. Additional concert appearances include Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Vivaldi’s Gloria with Seattle Symphony, as well as Poulenc’s Gloria, Vaughan-Williams’ Hodie, and Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall.

"The Liceu was the first major European opera stage I've had the pleasure to sing on, and even the lights from the boxes smile at you here! I was so honored to receive my awards, and even more humbled to sing with the Liceu orchestra in the Final Concert. It was a complete joy to sing Mozart and Bellini in this idyllic setting with a lively and engaged audience; a moment in time I will not soon forget".

Winner of the third prize at Tenor Vinas Singing Contest in 2019, the Chinese tenor Long Long is considered one of the most promising lyric tenors of his generation. He is a winner of the Grand Prix de l’Opera in Bucharest 2016, Giovani Voci Verdiane in Busseto 2017, and finalist at Operalia 2018 in Lisbon. In 2017 he was participating to Georg Solti Accademia in Italy. Since 2017 Long Long has been a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. From the season 2019/20 Long Long will be a member of the Staatsoper Hannover.

"This competition is of great significance to me. Being able to win an award is a major leap forward for my career. In each round of competition, I really enjoyed the process of this competition and I was trying to calm down and show my best. I think I also got a good workout and improvement during this competition".

Jaka Mihelac studied at the Music academy Ljubljana in class of prof. Matjaž Robavs. He is winner of numerous prizes at international and national competitions, including the fourth prize and two special prizes at the 56th Tenor Viñas competition in Barcelona (2019), the Will Keune prize in the finals of the 37th Hans Gabor Belvedere competition (2018), the first prize and a special prize at the Ferruccio Tagliavini competition in Deutschlandsberg (2018), and the first prize at the Slovenian national singing competition (2016).
 

In 2018 he has made a debut as Yamadori (G. Puccini – Madama Butterfly) in the Slovene National Theater in Ljubljana and as Ottokar (C. M. Webber – Der Freischütz) at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. In 2017 he has debuted in a scenic performance of C. Orff's Carmina Burana, produced by Echo Classic in Berlin. From 2016 he has performed main roles in four premieres of Slovenian operas. As a soloist he has performed with Staatskapelle Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, Slovenian Phillharmonic Orchestra, Slovene National Theatre Ljubljana Orchestra and others. From season 2019/20 he is a member of the International Opera Studio at the Berlin Staatsoper.

In 2016 Valentyna Pluzhnikova made her debut at the Theatre of the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy (Kiev, Ukraine) with the role of Flora in Verdi's La traviata. Since 2016 she regularly takes part in productions of the National Tchaikovsky Opera studio (Kiev, Ukraine). In September 2017 she joined the Academia Operowa of the Polish National Theatre in Warsaw. On January 1, 2019 she took part in the Gala Lirico di Capodanno at the Teatro Verdi Firenze (Italy) with Orchestra della Toscana. At the moment Pluzhnikova is a fourth -year student at the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine with Gennady Kabka. In summer 2019 she will take part in the Young Singers Project of Salzburg festival.

Competitions: V International Singing Competition Perls of Art (I Prize); 24 International Competition for Opera Singers Ferruccio Tagliavini (finalist); III International Eva Marton Singing Competition (finalist); Bartok Plus Opera Festival Miskolc (special prize); XXIX Concorso Lirico Internationale Iris Adami Corradetti (II Prize); 56 Tenor Viñas Contest (V Prize, Extraordinary prize Festival Castell de Pelarada).

"I'm very proud that in my 22 years I am the winner of V Prize of such a famous competition Tenor Viñas Contest. The contest has left wonderful memories and gave me great opportunities and prospects for further career growth".

A native of Busan, South Korea, Siman Chung returned to the Metropolitan Opera this season for its production of Nico Muhly’s Marnie. In 2018, he sang the title role in the Berlioz edition of Gluck’s Orphée with Opera Columbus, in Toronto, and at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Mr. Chung joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, participating in the company premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel. He appeared with Korean National Opera in Vivaldi’s Orlando fintzo pazzo. In 2015, Chung made his Carnegie Hall debut singing Handel’s Messiah. In 2017, he made his New York recital debut in Presented by Opera Index, as a winner of its major prize. In 2018, he made his Lincoln Center debut singing the role of Fileno from Clori, Tirsi e Fileno by Händel. He also received first prize of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition in New York, the sixth Official Prize in Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain and a grant from the Sullivan Foundation.

"It was such a great experience for me singing in the Viñas Competition. I learned so many great things from the competition and it was so wonderful that I had a chance to sing at the Gran Teatre del Liceu! Thank you so much for all your support!​"