
Kateryna Khartova is a Canadian-Ukrainian soprano. She is a recent graduate of the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto where she received her Artist Diploma. Katya is also a proud alumna of the Music Department at the University of Saskatchewan. During her undergraduate studies Miss Khartova was a featured as a soloist in the University’s Music Theatre Ensemble under the directory of Dr. Garry Gable and Kathleen Lohrenz Gable. Kateryna has won several Saskatchewan Music Festival competitions, including grand awards—Wallis Memorial Silver (2014), and Wallis Memorial Bronze (2015).
Kateryna Khartova is a passionate performer of Ukrainian art song through the Ukrainian Art Song Project (UASP) in Toronto. She was one of eight participants at the week-long summer program of UASP 2019, culminating in a concert held at the Temerty Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Past vocal engagements include soprano solo with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in Larysa Kuzmenko’s Golden Harvest in 2017. She sung Eleanor in Bohuslav Martinů’s mini-opera Les larmes du couteau conducted by Peter Tiefenbach and directed by Anna Theodosakis (Glenn Gould School of Music). In March 2019 Kateryna had her Koerner Hall debut as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte directed by Joel Ivany and conducted by Nathan Brock (Glenn Gould Shool of Music).
Her most recent achievement was joining the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra office team as their philanthropy and engagement specialist. She is happy to continue performing and working in her Canadian home city of Saskatoon.




For more than a decade,
Conductor and pianist, Leslie Dala enjoys a multifaceted career spanning the genres of opera, symphonic music, choral and contemporary works. On the podium, he is known for his passionate, dynamic, and charismatic approach to music making. Named one of the top ten artistic leaders by the Vancouver Sun, Dala is well known nationally with guest conducting appearances with orchestras and opera companies across the country. Internationally, he has performed in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic, China, Taiwan and the US including recently at Carnegie Hall. Currently, he is a member of the music staff at the Santa Fe Opera.
Angela Gjurichanin is a Macedonian/Canadian soprano based in London, Ontario. In the 2021-2022 season, she was a District Winner for the Metropolitan Laffont Competition and winner of the Gordon Wallis Opera Competition. Recently, she had the privilege to be featured as the soprano soloist for Messiah with Regina Symphony Orchestra in December 2022. Gjurichanin has performed the roles of Nella from Gianni Schicchi and Adina from L’elisir d’amore with the Opera Workshop at Western University. She has performed the partial roles of the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Adele from Die Fledermaus, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. Angela recently graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Masters of Music in Performance and Literature (MMus. 22) and holds a Bachelor of Music Honours (BMus. 20) from the University of Saskatchewan. Ms. Gjurichanin joined the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Showcase as a young artist in October 2022. Upcoming engagements include her role debuts as Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar and Cercatrice I in Suor Angelica with Grand River Opera.
Chinese-Canadian mezzo-soprano Emma Parkinson has performed across Canada and internationally, she has been hailed as “an outstanding