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    Mitra Sadeghpour

    Mitra Sadeghpour
    Mitra Sadeghpour

    Mitra Sadeghpour, DM Indiana University, is an education consultant and arts administrator with a 20-year career in higher education, teaching voice and opera at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as a Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professor, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, St. Olaf College, and Luther College. Ms. Sadeghpour was Education Director at Minnesota Opera and is a mentor for the Holland Opera Fellows at Opera Omaha. Mitra was National Vice President of Outreach for the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has participated in both the Women’s Opera Network Mentorship and Leadership Intensive programs of Opera America, where she also served as co-chair of the Education Forum. Ms. Sadeghpour is passionate about the power of teaching and learning through classical music for people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience

    Jaime Sharp

    Jaime Sharp
    Jaime Sharp

    Jaime Sharp (she/they) is the Communications Manager for Grantmakers in the Arts. She is a mentee for Women of Color in the Art’s Leadership Through Mentorship and Tessitura’s Early Professional Development program. Jaime is Co-Chair of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Multicultural Awareness Council, and a founding member of Black Administrators of Opera. Previously, Jaime participated in OPERA America’s Opera Leaders of Color, and the All Rise Initiative with Tom O’Connor Consulting Group. They were the 2021/2022 EDI Research Fellow for Association of Arts Administration Educators. Jaime co-founded the choral ensemble Hear Us, Hear Them, and led Opera NexGen as General Director 2020-2022. She holds a MM and BM in voice and is pursuing a MBA and MA in Arts Administration.

    Yuwon Kim

    Yuwon Kim
    Yuwon Kim

    The winner of the 2018 Princess Astrid International Music Competition, Yuwon Kim recently completed her two-year tenure as the Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, under the mentorship of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Yuwon has conducted Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich (Switzerland); Netherlands, Louisiana, Bucheon (South Korea) Philharmonic Orchestra; the North Netherlands, Trondheim (Norway), St. Petersburg (Russia), Prague (Czech Republic) and Korean Symphony Orchestra; and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (UK), she has also assisted Esa-Pekka Salonen and Thomas Adès at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2014 she received the Robert Spano Conductor Prize from the Aspen Music Festival and School and was selected by the League of American Orchestras as one of six conductors presented at the 2022 Bruno Walter National Conducting Preview, a prestigious showcase for young conductors from around the country. Yuwon holds a bachelor’s degree in conducting from Seoul National University and a Master of Music with distinction from Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she studied conducting with Dennis Russell Davies, Hans Graf and Bruno Weil. She has also participated in master classes with Marc Albrecht, Marin Alsop, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, and David Zinman.

    Blair Salter

    Blair Salter
    Blair Salter

    Canadian collaborative pianist Blair Salter is a versatile performer and music director who has worked at prestigious opera companies throughout North America. Blair is currently the Assistant Chorus Master at Santa Fe Opera and has previously worked as music staff at Houston Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, Michigan Opera Theatre, New Orleans Opera, and the CoOPERAtive Program. She is a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Wolf Trap Opera, and The Glimmerglass Festival. Blair is the Music Director for Opera Theatre at Penn State University and is the creator of the contemporary aria database Voce Moderna. She completed her DMA at the University of Michigan where she studied with Martin Katz.

    Anna Sułkowska–Migoń

    Anna Sułkowska–Migoń
    Anna Sułkowska–Migoń

    Anna Sułkowska–Migoń completed a bachelor’s degree at The Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music and completed her MA studies, specializing in viola, at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Ms. Sułkowska–Migoń is the winner of the La Maestra conducting competition, as well as the Taki Alsop Award Recepient 2022-24. In the 2021/2022 season, she earned a scholarship at the Polish National Institute of Music and Dance where she assists and conducts the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Warsaw.

    Ms. Sułkowska–Migoń has both conducted and assisted orchestras such as the Paris Mozart Orchestra, the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Warsaw, the Warmia and Masurian Philharmonic, the Krakow Philharmonic, and the Opole Philharmonic. She has also won conducting masterclasses with Marin Alsop and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, where she was also a participant in the Leadership Management Course with lecturers such as Simon Rattle and Paavo Jarvi.

    Currently, Ms. Sułkowska–Migoń conducts the Ars Cameralis Choir and is the founder of the “Scouting song” project – a music album published on the occasion of the Year of Scouting in Poland (2018) with scout songs arranged in a new, jazz version. In 2019, she collaborated on the creation of Magdalena Miśka-Jackowska’s film music program “Play it again” on the RMF Classic Radio.

    Jessica Gonzalez

    USA

    Jessica Gonzalez has worked in marketing for nonprofit performing-arts organizations nationwide. Among them have been The Glimmerglass Festival, Apollo Chamber Players, Opera in the Heights, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, and Houston Grand Opera. Before her career in arts administration, Gonzalez studied opera at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, performing roles such as Rosalinde/Die Fledermaus), the Queen of the Night/The Magic Flute, and Countess Almaviva/The Marriage of Figaro. She earned a Master’s Degree in Arts Leadership from the University of Houston, where she was a Presidential Endowment Fellowship scholar and was elected to serve on the Dean’s Student Advisory Committee. A first-generation college student, Gonzalez attributes much of her personal and professional growth to studying and performing opera and is dedicated to supporting the art form.