(Photo credits: Jenkins & Eccles)

Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute presents the seventh year of SongStudio from Jan. 13–19, 2025.

The annual intensive workshop brings eight emerging vocalists and collaborative pianists from around the world together with leading artists and coaches for a week of instruction and performance at Carnegie Hall. The 2025 SongStudio participants will receive private lessons and coaching throughout the week with Anthony Roth Costanzo, as well as vocal pedagogue Gerald Martin Moore, and pianists Javier Arrebola and Hartmut Höll.

The 2025 participating artists are soprano Jazmine Saunders (who appears by kind permission of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program) with pianist Elitsa Desseva, soprano Jaeeun Shin, and pianist Aozora Deguchi, soprano Margaret Tigue with Jarod Yap at the piano, mezzo-soprano Sophia Baete and pianist Marc Serra, tenor Matthew McKinney with pianist Corey Silberstein, tenor Joël Terrin and pianist Jong Sun Woo, baritone Anton Kirchhoff with pianist Jou-an Chen, and baritone Wencong Xue with pianist Chris Soong.

Costanzo kicks off the week with the first public master class on Jan. 13. The following day soprano Renée Fleming joins to share her expert insight with the young singers, also in a masterclass. Acclaimed bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel leads a public master class on Jan. 15. Pianist Hartmut Höll rounds out the master classes on Jan. 17. The 2025 SongStudio culminates in the “Young Artists Recital” in Zankel Hall on Jan. 19.

This season’s SongStudio program will be under the creative guidance of Costanzo, who worked with the program in 2022. For the past six seasons, renowned soprano Renée Fleming has led SongStudio as Artistic Director. Due to the ongoing demands of her performance schedule and other commitments, she has decided to step down as Artistic Director. Carnegie Hall will announce future artistic leadership for SongStudio in the coming months.