Leslie Ann Leytham is a San Diego-based mezzo-soprano who actively commissions contemporary mutli-media narrative vocal works, and collaborates with composers not only as a singer and actor, but as a director and designer as well. Ms. Leytham has premiered works by Beat Furrer, Nicholas Deyoe, Clinton McCallum, Carolyn Chen, Marti Epstein, Andy Vores, and more. Leslie has performed as a featured artist with CityWater Ensemble (San Francisco), The Industry Opera Company directed by Yuval Sharon with WildUp conducted by Christopher Rountree (Los Angeles), Noon 2 Midnight concert marathon produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Monday Evening Concert Series under the direction of Jonathan Hepfer (L.A.), La Jolla Symphony under the direction of Steven Schick (San Diego), wasteLAnd concert series (L.A.), and Guerilla Opera (Boston). 

Ms. Leytham has sung with the San Diego Opera as a chorister, and premiered the roles of Witch in CityOpera’s The Queen of Carthage by Hibbs/Purcell (SD), Marfa in The Heart of a Dog by Rudolf Rojahn, Inez in No Exit by Any Vores, and Gretchen in Rumplestiltzkin by Marti Epstein, among others. Ms. Leytham has also been featured in installation performances at NOWY Teatr (Warsaw), the Mengi (Reykjavik), Space4Art (SD), and Bread and Salt (SD). Leslie is a founding member of Guerilla Opera Company (Boston), and is founder and Artistic Director of Project [BLANK], an interdisciplinary concert series in San Diego. 

Leslie earned her D.M.A in contemporary music performance from UCSD (2015), M.M. in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory (2007), and a B.M. in vocal performance from UNLV (2005). Leslie has studied voice with Dr. Carol Kimball (UNLV), Dr. Rebecca Folsom (DMA), and with Sarah Agler. At UCSD, Leslie developed her interdisciplinary work under the guidance of the late violinist Janos Negyesy and video artist, Tara Knight.

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. She has collaborated extensively with dancers, visual artist, filmmakers and theater directors as both a composer and soloist and has worked with Butch Morris, artists Lucy & Jorge Orta, LA’s Contemporary opera company The Industry & new music ensemble Wild Up. Odeya’s work has been presented at venues and festivals across the US and internationally, such as The LA Phil, Merkin Concert Hall, MONA, Joyce Soho, Art Basel Miami and the Banff Centre, from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Mongolia, Madagascar and Vietnam. Her work also includes guiding vocal sound meditations, Voice Baths, and she leads retreats and workshops exploring the creative and healing qualities of embodied voice and movement. 

Jonathan Nussman is a baritone whose varied interests include opera, theater, improvisation, and chamber music, with a special emphasis on works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Appearances include San Diego Opera, Opera Boston, Guerilla Opera, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cape Cod Opera, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Bodhi Tree Concerts, Project [BLANK], the La Jolla Symphony and soundSCAPE New Music Festival. As a performer of contemporary and experimental music, he frequently premieres pieces by composers from around the world, as well as his own original compositions.

In addition to originating prominent roles in over twenty world-premiere operas and theatrical works, he has performed extensively in more traditional repertoire, with notable roles including Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Larry Foreman (The Cradle Will Rock), and Sid (Albert Herring). Jonathan is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, and currently lives in San Diego, California. He holds a doctoral degree in Contemporary Music Performance from UC San Diego

Francisco Eme (1981) is originally from Mexico City currently living in San Diego. As an artist, he is particularly interested in the sundry everyday situations and social interactions that synthesize and reflect the complexities of today’s world.
He creates music, multimedia installations, interventions and performances to immerse audiences in the symbols, poetics, and contradictions of everyday life.
His work has been presented in several countries, specifically across México, the United States, England, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Canada, Colombia, Argentina and El Salvador. Francisco currently works as the Gallery Director at The Front Arte & Cultura art gallery in the border community of San Ysidro California.

Anishka Lee-Skorepa, SOPRANO: In 2018 Anishka decided to take a leap of faith and leave San Diego Opera after 10 years as a member of the chorus core. While at SDO she sang small roles, performed with La Opera de Tijuana in several lead roles and placed in regional opera competitions. During that period of her career she also carved out a reputation as a skilled recitalist, giving concerts throughout California and Baja California, Mexico. Through these concerts she learned to connect with her audiences by bridging the gap between classical vocal repertoire and today’s society offering anecdotes about the composers, personal connection to the texts and bits of historical context. Uncertain of what lay ahead- she knew that the exclusive and often discriminatory world of opera was not a good fit. Convinced of her ability to harness the visceral power of the human voice to connect with a broader audience and keep opera relevant, she decided to branch out and find her own lane. In 2017 she formed a binational group representing San Diego and Tijuana, Artistas Fronterizas. As two singers and a pianist, the group uses a variety of voice repertoire along with storytelling and inventive staging to present border related narratives to audiences throughout the US and Mexico. In September 2020 she will release her first album, "A Live Mixtape" recorded in February 2020 just before the pandemic hit and the shut down started. The album features an exciting collection of arias and art songs reworked into dynamic arrangements for piano, double bass and percussion- featuring Anishka's signature dramatic sound. She can be found on IG @nishilatremenda, youtube as Nishi la Tremenda, and more info regarding the album release is available on her website, anishkaleeskorepa.com.