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 Praised for her “rich dramatics” (The Boston Globe), Pamela Stein Lynde is a versatile singer, composer, and music educator. She is currently a composer fellow with American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice Workshop. She was a featured guest composer on the 2015 OME New Music Festival in Phoenix, and has had works commissioned by Patchwork American Song Project, Guided Imagery Opera, Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, Poor Puppet, and many others. She has written works for TEDx Carnegie Lake, New Hope Sound(e)scape Festival, and IVY Connect’s debut concert at the DiMenna Center. Her recent composition for mezzo soprano Kayleigh Butcher and pianist Christopher Narloch, as part of The Schoenberg Project, had it’s debut in Chicago at Constellation, and then toured several midwest cities. As a singer, Pamela has performed with Beth Morrison Projects, American Opera Projects, CUSP, Rhymes With Opera, Helix!, Saratoga Fine Arts Festival, Yamaha Concert Artists series, New Music New Haven, Gotham Arts, and Unruly Sounds. She has built a career working with contemporary composers of all levels, from students to internationally recognized artists. She appears as a vocalist on minimalist composer Alexander Turnquist’s album Flying Fantasy, released on Western Vinyl. She is a member of experimental Princeton-based country-techno band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, which performs frequently throughout Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey. Pamela is an alumna of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at Mass MoCA, OperaWorks, SICPP, and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. She received her Masters degree from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where, upon graduation, she was awarded the Phyllis Bryn-Julson Prize for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music. 

 Soprano Asmik Arutiuniants was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2010 she graduated her bachelor at State Conservatory of Uzbekistan.

Roles Asmik performed in the conservatory Opera Studio included Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro Mozart, and Violetta Verdi’s La Traviata. In 2009 she was invited to join the training group of the Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre with which she performed the role of Marfa in The Tsar's Bride, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni, and the Princess in Gladkov’s musical The Bremen Town Musicians.

Following the internship, she sang the role of Leonora in an independent production of the opera Fidelio by Beethoven, funded by support of the Swiss and the German Embassy in Tashkent.

In 2018 Asmik graduated assistant in the department of music at Florida Atlantic University, where she is pursuing the Master of Music in Vocal Performance. As a winner of the FAU 2016-2017 Concerto and Aria Competition, she performed in February 2017 with the FAU Symphony Orchestra. She studied voice in the studio of Dr. Sandra McClain.

In March of 2019, Asmik became the winner in the Voice Experience Opera Idol Competition in Chicago, IL.

During the summer of 2018, she participated in three festival programs such as VOICExperience & Savannah VOICE Festival (full scholarship), Pittsburgh Festival Opera (Young Professional Artists Program as a Studio Artist) and also Opera Fusion.

In May of 2019, she made her debut in Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride with the Bel Cantanti Opera Company in Washington, Asmik performed the main role of Marfa.

Students from Asmik studio are winners of various vocal competitions in Florida and some of them have been successfully accepted to the Bak Middle School of Arts in West Palm Beach, FL.

  Johanne Veraque is the premier voice teacher of Heart’s Desire Music Studio. Growing up, she worked as an actor, host, and singer at the  Middle East Kingdom-Wide television program, Children’s Choice. She continued her music training at the Adventist University of the Philippines, pursuing a BM in Music Education majoring in Voice Performance. While in University, she toured and competed with the renowned Choir of the World title holder, the AUP Ambassadors, now the Philippine Meistersingers, under the directorship of Ramon “Bojo” Lijauco. In 2005, Johanne moved to the US where she did further studies at the Wickham Vocal Art School in Manhattan, NY. Currently, she sings as a soprano for the United Nation Singers and has gone on mission trips with them in China, Switzerland, Germany, Korea, and Japan.