
Elionor Martínez Lara (Barcelona, 1996) completed her higher education studies at the Conservatori del Liceu, with a scholarship from the Ferrer-Salat Foundation. She later won the 2016 Salvat Bach Scholarship, awarded by the Bach Foundation Zum Mitsingen Barcelona. In 2019, she won four special prizes at the Josep Palet Singing Competition in Martorell, and in 2024, she participated in the Schubertiad's "Lied the Future" program. She has been selected as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2026-27 season. She earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, under the patronage of the Salvat Foundation. As a soloist, she has performed Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Great Mass in C, Vivaldi's Gloria, the Requiems of Fauré and Brahms, and Bach works such as the St. John Passion and the Magnificat. She has also sung in opera productions such as Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, and La Cenerentola. She regularly sings with La Capella Reial de Catalunya, conducted by Jordi Savall, and with Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Phillipe Herreweghe.

Marie Seidler graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London and finished her studies with Prof. Hedwig Fassbender. She is a prizewinner of the International Song Competition of the Hugo Wolf Academy and the recipient of the Trude Eipperle-Rieger Prize. The mezzo-soprano has appeared at major opera houses and festivals, including Teatro La Fenice, the Danish National Opera, Dresdner Musikfestspiele and many more. As a sought-after concert singer, she has performed with ensembles such as the Bremen Philharmonic under Tarmo Peltokoski, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Sylvain Cambreling, and worked with conductors, such as Maxim Emelyanychev, Aapo Häkkinen and Neeme Järvi. Her recital appearances, often in collaboration with the pianist Wolfram Rieger, have taken her to the Schubertiades in Hohenems and Vilabertran, the Boulez Saal in Berlin, Zeist Liedfestival as well as to London, Barcelona and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Uruguayan-Spanish Santiago Sánchez is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Current and upcoming concerts include recitals at Wigmore Hall and Oxford Song Festival, concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Zarzuela Galas at Theater Basel and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Beethoven IX on tour in Italy (with Roberto Abbado). Plans on the opera stage include Don Luis de Haro in Barbieri's El barberillo de Lavapiés (with Christof Loy) at Theater Basel, Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, and Festival de Teatro Lírico Español de Oviedo. As a member of the ensemble of Theater Bonn he has sung Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Rosillon (Die lustige Witwe), and Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore). Past guest engagements have included Salzburger Festspiele, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Teatro Comunale di Piacenza, Theater Essen, and Oper Frankfurt.

Baritone Henk Neven is one of the most exciting song interpreters of his generation, while being equally at home on the operatic stage. His opera repertoire includes roles such as the title role and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Il Conte d'Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), and Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette). He has performed at the Opéra National de Paris, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and the National Opera in Amsterdam. As a lieder singer, Neven has gained international recognition with performances in renowned venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Halland the Concertgebouw. His artistic achievements have been acknowledged with several awards, including the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme and the Dutch Music Prize in 2011, the highest distinction for a classical musician in the Netherlands. He is, with Hans Eijsackers artistic leader of Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist.

Finnish pianist Pauliina Tukiainen has established herself internationally as a versatile performer and professor for Lied. She has performed at numerous festivals in her home country as well as at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Concert broadcasts as well as CDs, including the critically acclaimed Serious Songs and Winterreise with Finnish baritone Arttu Kataja, document her artistic work. In addition to her concert activities, she regularly teaches masterclasses and is a sought-after jury member for renowned Lied competitions. Since 2017, she has held a professorship for Lied Interpretation at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Awarded the best pianist prizes at the Das Lied-International Song Competition in Heidelberg (2017) and at the Paula-Salomon-Lindberg-Liedwettbewerbs at Universität der Künste Berlin (2015), Guerrero has extensive training as a soloist. Established in Germany, she has in recent years focused exclusively on the lieder repertoire, after discovering her affinity for it in 2014. She is coursing the Master in Liedgestaltung programme at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and is currently enrolled in Solistenexamen postgraduate studies at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. She received scholarships from FrauenFörderStipendium and Asociación de Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, and has been a guest of several lied cycles in Germany, such as the 19 Bonner Schumannfests im Schumann-Haus in Bonn, the Festival im Frühling in Heidelberg, and the LiederAbend.de cycle in Freiburg.



