Jeysla Rosario Santos and Xingxing Yao

Jeysla Rosario Santos is a Puerto Rican soprano currently pursuing her Master of Music in Opera Performance at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Amanda Majeski. She made her Curtis Opera Theatre debut in the fall 2024 as Poppea in the East Coast premiere of The Comet / Poppea. In the summer of 2026, she made her professional debut with Cincinnati Opera, as Frasquita in Carmen. While at Cincinnati, she also covered Persephone in the world premiere of Kevin Day’s LALOVAVI. Jeysla is the recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, 2nd prize in the inaugural Koran Art Song Competition, and First Place in the Miami University Undergraduate Artist Competition. Jeysla holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Vocal Performance and Arts Management from Miami University.. 

Xingxing Yao is a 20-year-old classical guitarist from Hangzhou and a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with David Starobin and Jason Vieaux. A prizewinner in international competitions across Asia and North America, she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at major festivals and venues, including the Aspen Music Festival and School and Curtis on Tour. Her repertoire spans both standard classical works and contemporary music by composers including Tania León, Paul Lansky, and Mario Davidovsky.

Links:

PBS: On Stage at Curis | Jeysla Rosario Santos
Xingxing Yao Instagram: @Xingxing-Yao
Jeysla Rosario Santos Instagram: @Jeyslars

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DUO Stephanie and Saar

Pianists Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia collaborate as DUO Stephanie and Saar in dazzling performances filled with visceral excitement, elegance and artistic vision. The NYC based duo made their Lincoln Center debut with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring for four-hands. Recent performance include the Gijón International Piano Festival (Spain), Dranoff 2piano fusion (Miami), Debussy Center Taipei (Taiwan), Regensdorf Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland), La Grua Center (Stonington, CT) and Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR). The duo’s critically acclaimed albums include Bach Crossings, hailed by the New York Times as “beautifully understated” and they are the first piano duo to release a complete recording of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Stephanie & Saar are the founders and directors of Makrokosmos Project, a contemporary music festival in Portland, Oregon. Please visit them at www.stephsaarduo.com.

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www.stephsaarduo.com
www.facebook.com/stephsaarduo
www.intagram.com/stephsaarduo
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LXB6JWKUG6FZL

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Ceshia Ubau

Ceshia Ubau is a Nicaraguan singer-songwriter and psychologist based in Spain. Her music is a fusion of Central American folklore with contemporary sounds. She has released three studio albums: "Con los Ojos del Alma" (2017), "Luz" (2022), and "Edén" (2024), building a career with regional recognition, which includes awards and appearances at festivals in Central America and Europe, in addition to having been pre-nominated for the Latin Grammys. Most recently, her single "De primeras veces" was included in the soundtrack of the film "Voicemails for Isabelle".

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Donations: Paypal - ubaumfrancina@gmail.com 
Instagram: @CeshiaUbau
Listen: Spotify
Web: www.ceshiaubau.com 

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Anna Meyer and Maria Marmarou

In their first collaboration, Anna Meyer, alto flute and Maria Marmarou, improvised percussion released their 2026 album Danzando Para Los Oídos. Recorded and produced by BCM+D Records, the album is a new exploration of Piazzolla’s six Tango Etudes for solo flute and challenges the way we have historically considered these gems of the flute repertoire. Maria Marmarou is a highly sought-after jazz drummer and has performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Anna Meyer is Artist-in-Residence and adjunct faculty at Temple University and performs frequently with the Reading Symphony.

Links:

www.aemeyer.com/anna
Instagram: @anna.k.meyer

https://mariamarmarou.com/ 
Instagram: @drummingsquirrel
Album Linktree: https://ffm.to/losoidos 
Album link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWIQRS-twnOQeebSq16OQXE7Ss-EuWBl8 

Donate:
Anna's Venmo
Maria's Venmo

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Heather Antonissen and Andrea Clearfield

Heather Antonissen is a classically trained singer, writer, and storyteller whose artistry bridges the worlds of music and myth. A native of Anchorage, Alaska, she has performed throughout the United States as a concert soloist, opera lead, recitalist, and featured cabaret artist, captivating audiences with her expressive voice, sharp wit, and commanding stage presence. Heather has been featured with Chautauqua Opera, Opera San Jose, Amore Opera, West Bay Opera, Verismo Opera, and more. She is a winner of the NATS regional competition and a finalist in the Pacific Region Metropolitan Opera Competition. Critics have praised her as “a charming singer and actor” with a voice that is “controlled and elegant, fun, fresh—everything a performance should be.” Heather’s one-woman shows—featuring a delightful blend of opera, standards, and sly humor—have also lit up venues in Santa Fe, Dallas, Palm Springs, and San Francisco. Alongside her stage career, Heather is a published poet and the author of the forthcoming novel In the Absence of Sirens, which follows a young woman torn between her destiny and her heart. For this performance, she offers an early glimpse into that world—sharing a song drawn from the pages of her book, where music is both spell and sanctuary. Heather’s artistry explores the intimate and the expansive, reminding listeners that the power of voice is more than just sound: it's how we envision, declare, and finally, become.

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YouTube, Instagram, Facebook: @singingwildflrw
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Loungeware-Vol-1-feat-Omar-Rane/dp/B005UWFDKU 

Creating deep emotive musical languages that build cultural and artistic bridges, the music of Andrea Clearfield is performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces”, the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration” and by Opera News for her “vivid and galvanizing” music of “timeless beauty”. She has written 175 works for opera, chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance and multimedia including a work commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra. She received a Pew International Residency Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Independence Foundation Fellowships, two Fellowships at the Rockefeller's Bellagio Center and Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, Yaddo and Copland House among others. She is also founder, curator and host of the Szalon, now celebrating its 40thyear. As a pianist, she performed with the new music ensemble Relâche for 25 years and had the honor of performing with the Court of the Dalai Lama. She serves on the Board of Wildflower Composers, highlighting voices of female, nonbinary, genderqueer and transgender composers. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Musical Fund Society in May, 2025. She is represented by Black Tea Music.

https://www.andreaclearfield.com/

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Carlos Bianchini

Carlos Bianchini is a Spanish pianist, composer and performing arts creator working at the crossroads of contemporary classical music, electronics and immersive stage production. His projects range from solo piano concerts to largescale multidisciplinary performances designed for theatres, festivals and international music seasons

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Website: https://www.carlosbianchini.es/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@carlosbianchinimusic 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlosbianchini.official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlosbianchini.music
Discography: https://www.carlosbianchini.es/about

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Sheridan Seyfried and Ya-Jhu Yang

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Sheridan Seyfried has been presenting original music and arrangements at the Salon for more than twenty-five years. He and his wife, composer-pianist Ya-Jhu Yang, both studied composition at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, and in 2016 together founded the Delaware-based concert series "Celtic to Classical". Seyfried's original music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, broadcast nationally on "Performance Today" and, recently, released on the Orchid Classics label. Yang was a composition prize winner at the 2009 Washington International Competition, and has since received commissions from Philadelphia’s Rock School of Dance Education, National Taiwan Recital Hall Artists, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the Main Line Chinese Culture Center. Seyfried and Yang are joined by local Philadelphia flutist Christine Marschilok, who performs as a substitute with the Main Line Symphony Orchestra, and studied music and biology at Cornell University. Now an MD, she practices medicine in Conshohocken.

Links:

www.sheridanseyfried.com
https://www.yajhuyangmusic.com/bio
https://www.celtictoclassical.com/video

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Tom Begich and Sarah Sledge

Singer/songwriter Tom Begich stepped away from music this past year to make a run for Governor of Alaska. Though a close second in Alaska's top four rank-choice election primary, Tom withdrew to ensure a real opportunity for change in his state. Joined by his wife, Sarah Sledge, they have returned to their musical roots and have been back in the studio this past month working on new music that echoes their experiences and lifetime of love, learning, and public service.  Tom has released 5 solo CDs, a compilation music/poetry CD with acclaimed poet Tim Mason, and has published “Six Truths” a book of  50 sonnets. Tom and Sarah have been coming to the Salon for over a decade.

Links:

www.tombegich.com (for music and tour schedule)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TSBAnchorage 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/56oXaK1q8XIJPtd56mOtXk

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The Given Note

The Given Note explores Irish Traditional Music through an open, interpretive lens. Through Nathan Bishop’s expressive fiddle and hardanger d'amore, and Rob Curto’s open approach to piano, button accordion and analog synthesizer, they exist in the space between melody and texture, balancing tradition with experimentation.

https://www.givennotemusic.com/
@givennotemusic on Instagram and YouTube 
@nathan-bishop-violin on Venmo

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The DePue Brother Band

The DePue Brother Band has been in existence since 2004 when they first began to record with all 4 DePue Brothers. This performance is a part of a revival of the group, after the passing of brother Alex.  Jason represents the family name in this iteration of the group. They dub their musical style as "Grassical."

Jason DePue -- violin and mandolin
Maya Anjali Buchanan -- violin and vocals
Dave Cullen -- guitar and vocals
Mike Munford -- banjo
Dmitri Mattas -- bass
Don Liuzzi-- percussion (cajon, djembe , shaker), vocals and guitar
Alexandra Coorman --- violin 

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