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This season, Ms. Mack returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the new production of El Niño, and appeared at the LA Opera as the title role in Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville as Bradamante in Alcina. and the San Francisco Opera as Rosmira in Partenope. She also appeared in concert with Boston Baroque and will perform in recital at the Kennedy Center.

Ms. Mack has made her Metropolitan Opera as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka. Other important debuts have included the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Real as Rosmira in Partenope, Teatro de la Maestranza in her role debut as Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and with the BBC Philharmonic as Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of Serse with The English Concert.

An alumna of the famed Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, Ms. Mack has appeared as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Idamante in Idomeneo, Siebel in Faust, and Lucienne in Die tote Stadt for her house debut. She also performed the title role of La Cenerentola as a member of the company's Merola Opera Program. Other recent opera engagements have included appearances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, English National Opera, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ópera de Oviedo, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and the Verbier Festival. Her many roles include the title role in Carmen, Charlotte in Werther, Beatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict, Romeo in I Capuletti et I Montecchi, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, Angelina in Cenerentola, Bradamante in Alcina, Juno in Semele, Dardano in Amadigi di Gaula, Rosmira in Partenope, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, She also created roles in the world premieres of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's Elizabeth Cree (title role) at Opera Philadelphia, and in David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's JFK (Jacqueline Kennedy) at Fort Worth Opera with subsequent performances at Opéra de Montréal.

On the concert stage, Ms. Mack debuted with three orchestras under Charles Dutoit: Orchestra de la Suisse Romande in Ravel's L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges, Boston Symphony Orchestra in L'heure espagnole, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. She also debuted with the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Rossini's Giovanna d'Arco under James Gaffigan and performed Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans with Boston Baroque. She debuted with the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Alan Gilbert and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Manuel de Falla's La vida breve under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. She performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Beethoven's Missa solemnis with the Washington Chorus, Handel's Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra, Ravel's Shéhérazade with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne and Falla's Siete canciones populares españolas with the Sydney Symphony.

Following her 1998 debut at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Korea, Ms Lee has focused on piano collaboration. She has performed in such halls as Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Chicago's Preston Bradley Hall, Toronto's Centre for the Arts in Canada, and the Sejong Cultural Center and Seoul Arts Center, in Korea. She has been invited in Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Germany, Ravinia Festival`s Steans Music Institute, Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara where she received a vocal piano prize, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival as the Samuel Sander Scholarship Awardee and Rockport Chamber Music Festival.

As an orchestral keyboard player, she has worked at the Metropolitan opera, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and The Juilliard School of Music.

Recent engagements as an active chamber musician include Concert Tour with "Musicians" from New York Philharmonic in Korea, New York Philharmonic Chamber music series in Merkin hall, the season opening concert at Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, recitals by Marilyn Horne Foundation at the Music Academy of the West and at Santa Monica City College, recitals with the winners of Young Concert Artists and Concert Artist Guild.

Ms Lee's piano studies began at age four; she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Piano Performance at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea where she won the silver medal of Samik Piano Competition. She then moved to New York and earned both a master's degree and Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School. She also holds a Professional Studies Certificate in Vocal Accompanying from the Manhattan School of Music studying. She has finished her term 1 with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera where She was employed in the production of The Bartered Bride mounted jointly by The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School and conducted by James Levine.

His music has been recorded by the legendary London Symphony Orchestra, multi-Grammy award winner Paquito D' Rivera, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra among others. He has performed and given lectures at Google Talks, TED Talks, The Juilliard School of Music, The New School among others. A recipient of the National Prize of the Arts grant in Argentina, Mr. Jofre has been part of many prestigious festivals, including the Celebrity Series of Boston, Umbria Jazz Festival, Great Performers at Lincoln Center, Seattle Town Hall, Hatfield and Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (U.K) Australian Music Festival for Chamber Music and Kasposfest (Hungary) to name a few.

For the world premiere of his Bandoneon Concerto, the California Mercury News wrote: "…he is an electrifying composer-bandoneon player." In 2012, Jofre was invited by the Free University of Bolzano and SudTirol Festival (Italy) to perform for the homage to Argentinean Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

For the release of his Double Concerto for Violin and Bandoneon with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Michael Guttman, the BBC Magazine wrote: "His concerto is arresting and -through the gorgeous Adagio-rather beguiling". He currently leads the JP Jofre Quintet, the ensemble has been touring internationally since the release of their last album "Manifiesto" among others. Mr. Jofre's music has been performed at the most prestigious concert halls around the world such as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Los Angeles Music Center, Morlacchi Theater (Italy) Mariinsky Theater, Mikhailovsky Theater, Stanislavsky Theater (Russia), Beijing National Concert Hall, Seoul Art Center, and Taiwan National Theater to name a few.

Mr. Jofre started making music at the early age of 5, and academically studying at age 15, double bass with Nestor Castillo, harmony with Horacio Lavaise, composition, and orchestration with Ezequiel Viñao and Adrian Rusovich. He took masterclasses given by Ingrid Zur and George Heyer (Germany) and studied bandoneon with Julio Pane, former bandoneonist of the legendary Astor Piazzolla Sextet. Mr. Jofre has received numerous commissions for composing music from producer Ted Viviani, violin virtuosos Francisco Fullana, Kyung Sun Lee, Rachel Lee, Eric Silberger, Lucia Lin, Michael Guttman, Yih Shuin Huang, MUPA Budapest, pianists David Fung, Min Kwon, clarinetist Seunghee Lee and cellist István Várdai, Metropolis Ensemble, Belares Symphony Orchestra, and San Antonio Music Institute.