Stella Horvath is a Melbourne-born soprano: a performance student at the University of Melbourne under the guidance of Dr Stephen Grant. Whilst a student at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, she was a founding chorister of the St Paul’s Cathedral Girls’ Voices, and Head Chorister in 2020. She won a choral scholarship to Trinity College in 2023 and has toured nationally and internationally with its choir.

Stella debuted as the soprano soloist in St Paul’s Cathedral performance of Handel’s Messiah in September 2024, collaborating with Genesis Baroque. Stella prides herself on her music sightreading, enjoying the adrenaline rush of singing publicly – and correctly! 

Sophia Gyger is a mezzo-soprano currently completing her studies at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Anna Connolly. Passionate about both contemporary and choral music, Sophia was an apprentice with the Song Company in 2024, as well as participating in varied concerts of contemporary chamber music. From 2022–24 she was a member of the Choir of Newman College, serving as both Principal Scholar and Choir Librarian.

Sophia is also a longstanding chorister of Gondwana Choirs, touring internationally with their flagship ensemble and this year to Canada and the United States with Gondwana Chorale. Her solo interests include Bach cantatas and art song repertoire of the twentieth century.

Peter Griffin AM & Terry Swann Scholar Matthew O’Leary is a Melbourne-based tenor who has commenced his Honours year in his Bachelor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has been a member of the Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Choir, Early Voices and Vocal Ensemble groups since 2022, working under the direction of Anna Connolly, Andrea Katz, Steven Grant and Nick Dinopoulos. 

O’Leary has a decorated resumé as a soloist with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Chamber Choir in Dvořák’s Mass in D and as a soloist in the Conservatorium’s Early Voices ensemble’s performance of Heinrich Bieber’s Requiem.

Leyland Jones is a Bass and Multi-Instrumentalist hailing from Southwest Victoria and is studying his Masters of Opera at the Melbourne Conservatorium. With The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, he has toured Italy, Ireland and the UK, singing a vast repertoire including the Australian Premiere of Eric Whitacre’s Sacred Veil. Leyland’s passion for contemporary music has led him to perform in works such as Consort of the Moon with Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim.

His work also includes forays into cabaret, with performances of Diskogesang with pianist Stefan Cassomenos as part of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival. Recent operatic credits include Chorus and Theseus (cover) in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Melbourne Conservatorium), Chorus in Melbourne, Cheremushki (Victorian Opera), Sarastro (cover) in Die Zauberflöte (Melbourne Conservatorium) and Masetto in Don Giovanni (BK Opera).