Georgia Belmont is a native of the United Kingdom, currently living in New York. After receiving both her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance from Rice University she is thrilled to be making debuts around the country. For her 2023-2024 season Belmont sang the role of Edith in Kentucky Opera’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Additionally, she made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut, as the soprano soloist in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Wing on Wing. 

This past summer, Belmont joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2024 festival season as a Gerdine Young Artist covering Cleopatra in Händel’s Julius Caesar and Sagredo in Glass’ Galileo Galilei. In April of 2023, she made her North American theatrical debut as Mrs. Nordstrom in the Tony Award Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. 

Belmont was part of Des Moines Metro Opera for the 2020 virtual season and returned for their 2021 & 2022 seasons. She has been the soprano soloist in various concerts, including Handel's Messiah with West University Baptist Church in collaboration with Houston's Kinetic Ensemble, as well as Schubert's Mass in G with the Rice Chorale. Belmont also has been a young artist with Opera Steamboat, Opera in the Ozarks, the Académie Internationale d’été de Nice in France, Houston Grand Opera's Young Artist Vocal Academy (YAVA) and graduated from The Juilliard School Pre College. She is a 2014 and 2015 National Young Arts winner.

Andrew Boisvert, Bass, has been hailed as “thundering” (San Diego Story) with a “deep warmth” (The Rutland Herald). 2025 performance highlights include making his Opera Company of Middlebury debut as Simone in Gianni Schicchi, as well as covering Colline in their production of La bohème, singing as the Bass Soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra, and joining Sarasota Opera to cover Bartolo in both Il barbiere di Siviglia and Le nozze di Figaro. Past engagements include Il Carceriere in Cedar Rapids Opera’s Tosca (2024), Zuniga in Indianapolis Opera’s Carmen (2023), Il Commendatore (cover) in Sarasota Opera’s Don Giovanni (2023), and Il Re di Scozia in Opera Neo’s Ariodante (2022).

Jason Garcia-Kakuk is a tenor from Queenstown, MD. He was most recently seen as H in Eastman Opera Theatre’s winter production of H&G (Allen Shawn). In 2024, he was seen at Opera Baltimore portraying the role of Mr. Angel in The Impresario (Mozart), featuring a reinvented libretto by Eric McKeever. He also performed Opera Baltimore's production of Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) as Triquet and covered Lensky. Notable past roles include Pelléas in Impressions de Pelléas (Debussy) with Temple University Opera Theater and Odoardo in Ariodante (Handel) with Curtis Opera Theatre. Jason holds his B.M. in Voice Performance from Temple University, and is currently pursuing his M.M. in Voice Performance at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Anthony Dean Griffey.

American Mezzo-Soprano Karen Kelley is originally from Jefferson City, MO. She has a Master of Music in Opera Performance from Arizona State University. In 2023, Karen debuted as an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera, performing La Madre in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Kelley also performed with the Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Mary in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Messaggera in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

In the 2023-2024 season, Karen joined Opera Idaho as an Emerging Artist, making her mainstage debut as Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro. Kelley is thrilled to perform as a Studio Artist during Finger Lakes Opera’s 2025 season.

Marieke de Koker is a South African mezzo-soprano currently based in the New York City area. Recent appearances include the title role of Iolanthe, Susan (The Marriage Counselor), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), Liza Elliott (Lady in the Dark) and Cloud in the world premiere of Iceland. She has performed in recitals and world premieres with WQXR radio, Brooklyn Theatre TV, Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra, RSG Radio, Johannesburg Opera, the International Contemporary Ensemble's Ensemble Evolution, and many more.

De Koker has received awards from the International Opera Awards Foundation, SOI Cedolins International Opera Competition, Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, Nightingale Opera Theater Competition, to name a few. She is a founding board member of Opéra Queens and volunteers as Publishing Team Lead of the Àkójọpọ̀Music Foundation for Pan-African Art Music.

Korean American baritone Eunsung Lee has performed leading operatic roles, including

Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro and Escamillo in La Tragédie de Carmen with Stony Brook Opera Theater. He sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with The Opera Next Door and was a Lehrer Vocal Institute fellow at the Music Academy’s 75th Anniversary. Other pastroles include Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), and Colline (La Bohème). Lee was a finalist in the Ades Vocal Competition and Pasadena Vocal Competition and has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and Gerda Lissner Foundation. He also was invited to perform in the New York New Art Song Concert, premiering works by contemporary Korean composers, and Manhattan School of Music’s A Midsummer’s Dream of Song. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University.

Currently in his second year at Baldwin Wallace University studying Voice Performance,

Charles Shaun Bohrer is thrilled to be returning to his hometown of Rochester to perform with Finger Lakes Opera this summer. Some of his recent role credits at Baldwin Wallace University include Vicomte Cascade (The Merry Widow), Tiridate, King of Armenia (Radamisto), and Car Man (Speed Dating Tonight!). Bohrer  currently studies under Professor of Voice Nancy Maultsby and Director of Opera Studies Scott Skiba and is an active member of Motet Choir under direction of Dr. Dirk Garner at Baldwin Wallace University.

Soprano Izabella Gozzo, native of Brooklyn, NY, is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s of Music in Vocal Performance at the Eastman School of Music. In the Eastman Opera Theatre 2024-2025 season, she will perform in the ensemble of both H&G, a great and terrible story by Allen Shaw and Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov. Last year Gozzo made her Kodak Hall debut in Eastman Opera Theatre’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. She spent the summer of 2024 at Chicago Summer Opera where she performed as First Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Beyond singing, Izabella excels as a pianist and in her free time, enjoys  reading and hiking.

Originally from Mechanicsburg, PA, soprano Sofia Mains studies at Eastman School of Music with Katherine Ciesinski. In addition to her role as a FLO Apprentice Artist, she will make role debuts as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Vienna Opera Academy and Papagena (The Magic Flute) with Arizona Lyric Theatre.

Mains has previously sung Ostiaria (Le Reniement de St. Pierre) with Eastman Repertory Singers and with OperaViva! and International Vocal Artists Academy of Payerbach. Sofia sings with Collegium Musicum, Eastman’s Baroque vocal ensemble. She is passionate about citizen artistry and has worked with Washington

National Opera to introduce preschool students to opera.  When Mains isn’t singing, she enjoys learning languages, reading, cooking, and exploring the greater Rochester area.

Caleb Meyerhoff is a singer/composer from Denver, CO, currently a junior at the Eastman School of Music. He studies Music Education with a vocal primary focus, and has been in Eastman's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas as the Sorcerer and also Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites as Commissioner 1. His most recent appearance as a composer was at Sparky Wiry and Cries SongSLAM competition hosted at Eastman, where he premiered his art song "Love Will Always Be Blind."

Jonathon Rahul Sengupta is a tenor, scholar, and performer born and raised in Rochester, NY. Just this past December 2024, he earned his Bachelors in Music from Nazareth University majoring in Vocal Performance and minoring in piano. Prior to his time at Nazareth, Sengupta studied Music and Russian language at The George Washington University. With the help of his teacher, Franco-American tenor Joshua Bouillon, he won first place at the Nazareth school of music’s 2022-2023 Concerto Aria Competition singing Édouard Lalo’s “Vainement ma bien-aimée" from Le Roi D’Ys.

Sengupta's most recent performances include both the Chaplain of the Monastery and Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Nazareth University Opera, and a featured quintet role in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at Blackfriars Theatre. His musical interests extend beyond operatic  performance. He studies piano with Dr. Gary Fisher, is a Carnatic voice student–a part of the Bharata Arts Studio with Parvatha Chidambaram, and is an active performer for various Rochester-based churches. 

Rochester, NY native Julia Tooker is a Penfield High School graduate and third-year Soprano Vocal Performance student at the Eastman School of Music. She began her classical voice training at age thirteen at the Eastman Community Music School, fueling her passion for musical theatre and opera. Tooker has won numerous vocal awards, including the National Classical Singers Competition in both musical theater and classical categories. Her performance versatility is evident in her lead roles in community theatre, from Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and Cosette in Les Misérables to Vanessa in In the Heights and Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde. Tooker made her opera debut at The New Voice Festival in Boise, ID last summer and recently performed in Eastman Opera Theatre's Silent Light.