Laetitia Grimaldi, a French-born soprano, made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2013 and has since performed on international stages such as the Kennedy Center, the Shanghai & Forbidden City Concert Halls, the Verbier Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the Melbourne Festival. She grew up between Lisbon and London, beginning her vocal studies with Teresa Berganza before continuing at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School. She has worked with renowned artists including Alfred Brendel, Ileana Cotrubaș, Thomas Allen, Dalton Baldwin, and Emma Kirkby, and under the mentorship of Matthias Goerne she transitioned from mezzo to soprano. In 2017 she won first prize in three international competitions: the Mélodies Françaises Competition in Montreal, the Robert Massard Competition in Bordeaux, and the Pro Musicis Competition in Paris.

Born in Jerusalem, he began playing piano at the age of four. Developing an early love for the art song, Ammiel is internationally recognised as a leading song pianist of his generation and performs regularly at notable venues across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. After initial studies in South Africa, where he raised, he furthered his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig and at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Ammiel is a prize-winner at numerous competitions, including the Wigmore Hall Competition in London or the International Schubert Competition in Stuttgart. One of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he mentors regularly at Thomas Hampson’s Heidelberg Lied Academy. In addition to his activities as a pianist, Ammiel is also active as a musicologist and specializes in research on Schubert and Wagner. He has been named a Stenway Artist in 2025.