Roy Lee is a senior at Northview High School and began his violin studies from age three. He studied with Jikyung Moon, until 2011 when he formally started taking private lessons with Professor Levon Ambartsumian at the University of Georgia. He won his first competition at age five and has won numerous competitions since. Most recently he has been a finalist in the 2022 Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerto Competition, and finalist in the 2021 and 2022 Ronald Sachs International Music competition. Roy made his first solo debut with the Georgia Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018 as the first prize winner of the Samuel Fordis Young Artists Concerto Competition in 2018 and in 2022.

With his recent love for chamber music, his school-made string quintet won third place in the 2022 Franklin Pond Chamber Music Competition. He also was selected to attend the 2022 Governor’s Honors Program for Music. Outside of competitions, he loves rock climbing and sharing his musical talents with the community around him at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute, TEDx events, and senior homes.

Soprano Flynn Allen is a senior vocal performance major at Berry College. While at Berry they have performed in many solo recitals including the auditioned Pi Kappa Lambda Honors recital, where they were inducted into Berry College’s chapter of the Pi Kappa Lambda Honors Society in 2022. Also in 2022, they were invited to perform as a finalist in the Opera Guild of Atlanta’s scholarship competition. Flynn as also select to sing soprano solos in the Berry Singers’ performances of Fauré’s Requiem (“Pie Jesu”) and Handel’s Messiah (“Rejoice Greatly”) under the direction of Dr. Paul Neal. In the summer of 2022, they performed a concert in Carnegie Hall with Rome’s Three Rivers Singers community choir under the direction of Len Willingham. Flynn made their opera debut as The Plaintiff (Angelina) in Trial by Jury in January 2022 and has since then returned to the stage as Rosalinda in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus in 2023. Flynn is a student of Ruth Baker, Berry College