Robert Baker has been a pillar of the Washington D.C. classical music scene for over 30 years. He has performed in over 55 produtions with the Washington National Opera, including high-profile premieres of works by Phillip Glass and Jake Heggie. Other career highlights include his Metropolitan Opera debut and a Grammy-winning recording with the National Symphony Orchestra. As an esteemed interpreter of Britten, Baker has sung the Serenade across the country. He has collaborated on over 20 premieres of new works and frequently performs contemporary music. Baker has been on the faculty of The George Washington University since 1992. His acclaimed career also includes singing with the US Air Force and major symphonies across the country. After 30+ years on stage, Baker continues to captivate audiences with his versatile artistry.

Violinist Elizabeth Field, distinguished for her passionate and stylistic playing on both period and modern instruments, is the founder of The Vivaldi Project. Field is concertmaster of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and has performed with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the US: from Washington DC’s acclaimed Opera Lafayette to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Hungaroton, Naxos, Dorian, and MSR. Field holds a Doctorate in Historical Performance Practice from Cornell University and has held professorships at Sacramento State University and the University of California at Davis, she is currently on faculty at George Washington University. Her DVD with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, Performing the Score, has been hailed by Emanuel Ax as both “truly inspiring” and “authoritative.” Seen and Heard International proclaimed that Field “played so thrillingly that if Mendelssohn had heard Field play he would have written her a concerto too.”

Cellist and educator Nancy Jo Snider is on the full-time music faculty at American University and a member of the Opera Lafayette Orchestra. She performs in a variety of chamber and period instrument ensembles in venues ranging from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre and L'Opèra Royal de Versailles, to experimental stages and living rooms. She is a passionate advocate for new music and co-founded the new music collective INTERFERENCE with Steve Antosca and William Brent in 2015.

Ms. Snider has performed extensively in the United States as well as in South Africa, France, Czech Republic, Spain, and, in Russia as a Fellow of the Likhachev Foundation. Her lecture at the Hirschhorn Museum, Music in the work of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartensson was also a notable highlight.

She lived in Nairobi, Kenya from May-December 2019 and served as a Visiting Lecturer at US International University-Africa. While in Kenya, she taught the outstanding young musicians from S’Cool Sounds Kenya in the Kibera informal settlement.

In 2022 she did a residency presenting and performing electroacoustic in Madrid, returned to work with some amazing young musicians and artists in Nairobi in both 2022 and 2023 and will be back in Nairobi working with the students of S’Cool Sounds Kenya in July of this year.

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