Prince George’s County
Bass-Baritone
B.M. | University of Maryland College Park

John Solomon Collins was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Growing up, he was always surrounded by music, hearing his mother sing with the church praise team and participating in the children’s choir. He became resistant towards singing in middle and early high school, but as time went on, his love for singing and passion for creating art became clearer to him; so he decided to pursue a career in vocal performance. After winning first place in the CAAPA (Coalition of African Americans in the Performing Arts) Scholarship Competition in 2020, he began studying vocal performance under Kevin Short at the University of Maryland. While there, John sang in the chorus during UMD’s production of the opera La bohème and received an honorable mention at the Sue Guetz Ross Memorial Competition presented by the Friday Morning Music Club. He was also accepted into the Honors Performance Series taking place this summer at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, and is currently accepting donations to cover the tuition and transportation costs for the program. John is currently a third-year undergraduate student studying vocal performance at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Countertenor
New York, NY
M.M. Manhattan School of Music

Jared Marshall is a countertenor, native to the DC Metropolitan area. Throughout his professional experience, he has since been involved in working with performance entities and ensembles such as Washington National Opera, the Kennedy Center, and National Philharmonic Chorale at Strathmore. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Music Education at George Mason University under the tutelage of esteemed tenor John Aler. There, he participated in the chorus of Mason Opera’s productions of Dido and Aeneas, Medames de le Halle, and was due to perform the romantic role of Valetto in L'incoronazione di Poppea before the unforeseen circumstances of the pandemic in 2020. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Voice Performance at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. Jared recently made his MSM mainstage debut as L’enfant in the semi-staged concert production of L’enfant et les sortilèges.

Soprano
San Francisco, CA
M.M. | Yale University

Sea Han is a Korean-American soprano, keyboardist, and researcher specializing in early Western art music and the music of living, “global” composers. Born and raised in Queens, New York, they attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan. They earned a bachelor of music in vocal performance from Westminster Choir College, studying with Margaret Cusack. A chorister and a creative recitalist, Han is part of the Early Music Voice graduate program at Yale University where they actively move the classical music scene away from its white supremacist and capitalist ideologies toward a safer space for people of color and other marginalized individuals, specifically, queer, non-Christian, transgender, neurodivergent, disabled, and unhoused people.

Tenor
Los Angeles, California
B.M. | University of Southern California

David Morales is an active performer throughout the U.S. and has sung with professional groups such as Tonality, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Conspirare. As a versatile vocalist, David has lent his voice for a variety of musical engagements which include, serving as a tenor Vocal Fellow for Bach Akadamie Charlotte 2022, performing as a background singer for Björk's Cornucopia LA and SF tours, and recording for his first major movie soundtrack, Space Jam. He regularly performs in various music ensembles and performances in the Los Angeles area. These engagements include being the tenor soloist for Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli with the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra and performing in Early Music America’s 2020 Emerging Artist Showcase at the Berkeley Early Music Festival with L.A. Camerata Baroque. David Morales graduated from Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSULB, and holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance and a B.M. in Music Education as well as a M.A. in Early Music Performance from the University of Southern California.