Soprano

Indonesian-American soprano Amanda Densmoor has delighted audiences across the United States and Southeast Asia. In the 2022-2023 season, Amanda performed in Bel Cantanti Opera’s Franz Lehár Operetta Gala, in the chorus of Opera Baltimore’s Faust, and as one of the bridesmaids in Annapolis Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro. Amanda will return to Annapolis Opera in the 2023-2024 season to sing Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. Other recent roles include Valentina Scarcella (Later the Same Evening), the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Patience (Patience), Counsel (Trial by Jury), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), and Kate (The Pirates of Penzance). As a concert soloist, Amanda has sung in Carissimi’s Jephte, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Fauré’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem. Amanda is passionate about new music, and has premiered the roles of Mother in Joseph C. Phillip Jr.’s Four Freedoms, and Meera in Omar Najmi’s This Is Not That Dawn.

Flutist

Dr. Ceylon Mitchell II embodies the 21st-century arts leader as a contemporary classical flutist, curator, educator, and entrepreneur. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Mitchell earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland School of Music, under the tutelage of Dr. Sarah Frisof. He has performed in venues such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Music Center at Strathmore, the Arts Club of Washington, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with Robert Glasper. In the United States, Dr. Mitchell has been a featured artist at the National Flute Convention, flute societies and associations, and multiple chamber music series. Recent achievements include the Strathmore Artist in Residence Class of 2021, a Prince George’s County Forty UNDER 40 Award in Arts & Humanities, and numerous state an county-level artist fellowship grants. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Mitchell leads his own music collective, Raíces Negras, celebrating Black and Latine voices with repertoire spanning from contemporary classical music to contemporary Pan-American jazz and everything in between. As a music educator, Dr. Mitchell is a flute faculty member with Levine Music, the Washington D.C. region’s preeminent center for music education. A devoted teaching artist, he has served as an ensemble director, sectional coach, adjudicator, and panelist for numerous youth orchestras, arts programs, and arts grantmakers. He also supports creatives, arts organizations, and beyond with multimedia production and digital marketing consulting as the co-founder, creative director, and principal consultant of M3 | Mitchell Media & Marketing, LLC. Dr. Mitchell resides in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two sons.

Pianist

Pianist Yejin Lee is an active soloist and a chamber musician based in the United States. Yejin’s performances have been praised for her “coloristic and poetic expressions” and “compelling and thrilling rhythmic senses,” and she has been invited to perform in many prestigious venues around the world. Yejin had her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York with the invitation from the Annual Velia International Music Festival, and her appearances include as a guest artist at the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain and the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and Seoul Arts Center and Yong San Art Hall in Seoul, Korea. Claimed top awards at a number of national and international competitions, including at Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, Wideman International Piano Competition, Yejin also had a privilege to perform at leading music festivals and masterclasses at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Banff Music Festival, Gijon Music Festival in Gijon, Spain and Piano Texas International Academy & Festival, where she shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists in this century like Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kammering. Yejin holds both piano performance and vocal accompanying degrees from Oberlin Conservatory with honors under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill and Masters and Doctorate degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as a piano faculty at Washington Conservatory of Music, a guest faculty at the George Washington University, and a pianist member of Baltimore Musicales.