Alison Paris is a versatile soprano holding a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Certificate from the University of Queensland, majoring in vocal performance. Opera credits include Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Euridice and Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice. Alison has a passion for new music, and takes every opportunity to explore Australian compositions. Recent performances include the debut of The Nurses at Vung Tau, where she played the role of Patty, and first soprano in Spirit Orphan with Brisbane Music Festival.

She is also the co-founder of contemporary experimental folk duo Blue Stockings, and loves using the project as a way to explore deep-cuts, create unique takes on familiar songs, and compose original music that toes the lines of genre. Upcoming engagements with the project and Brisbane Music Festival explore original works incorporating effects pedals and extended techniques, and American composer David Leisner’s song cycle for guitar and voice, Confiding. With a diverse range in vocal stylings, she also has performed and toured with renowned crossover troupe The Seven Sopranos, "Australia's most beautiful voices" since 2021, as well as managing and fronting alternative-rock outfit, Sali Eri.

Annika is an emerging artist who has recently returned to the stage after several successful years as a professional church musician. Her operatic role highlights include Miss Wordsworth in Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’, Le Feu (the Fire) in Ravel’s ‘L’enfant et les Sortilèges’, and Pamina in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, with other professional engagements including Belinda in ‘Dido and Aeneas’, First Lady in ‘The Magic Flute’, First Nymph in ‘Apollo e Dafne’, and the role of Princess Slayer in ‘Opera Galactica’. Annika graduated with Distinction from her Master of Music Studies in Vocal Pedagogy at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 2021, in addition to her Graduate Diploma of Opera and Bachelor of Music in Advanced Performance from the same institution. She served as a chorister, cantor, and teacher at Brisbane’s Cathedral of St Stephen throughout her studies which culminated in her fulltime appointment as the Cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music in 2020. Annika left the position in 2022 to pursue her growing performance commitments, and continues to have regular concert and oratorio engagements with favourites including Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, and Faure’s Requiem. In 2024, Annika will sing three roles with Voxalis Opera for their new season: both the Dew Fairy and Sandman in Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’, as well as the role of Pleasure (Piacere) in a staged production of Handel’s rarely-performed work ‘The Triumph of Time and Truth’.

Jenson White is a 2nd year Bachelor of Music (Honours) student at the University of Queensland, majoring in voice and is currently learning under the guidance of Dr. Shaun Brown. In the 2022 and 2023 UQ Singers annual Opera Scenes concerts, Jenson performed the roles of Alfredo from La Traviata (Verdi), ‘Bogdanovitch’ from The Merry Widow (Lehar), ‘Belcore’ from L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), ‘Krusina’ from Prodaná nevěsta (Smetana), and ‘Taddeo’ from L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini). In Jenson’s first year, he was thrilled to make his opera debut, taking on the role of 'Papageno' in Mozart's Die Zauberflote, as well as performing in the chorus of Verdi’s Requiem. In 2023, he performed the role of ‘Pappacoda’ in Strauss’ A Night in Venice, and in May, he was lucky enough to be selected alongside fellow UQ vocalists to perform with Opera Queensland in the Festival of Outback Opera in Winton and Longreach. Jenson looks forward to working with Springboard Opera as he continues his journey towards a professional career.

Jasmine Buckley (ATCL, BMus Hons) is a passionate teacher, accompanist and performer. She has been learning piano with the Suzuki method since she was 3 years old and began playing the viola at age 7. She recently graduated from a Bachelor of Music with 1st Class Honours at the University of Queensland, majoring in piano performance. Jasmine has been involved in many performances as a collaborative artist, and has accompanied for concerts, exams, auditions, eisteddfods and more.

In recent years, Jasmine won the Margaret Nickson Prize for Voice and Piano Accompaniment, the Accompanists' Guild of Qld Piano Accompaniment Award and the Burnett William Wendorff Memorial Prize for Classical Piano. She has been awarded a Trinity College of London Performance Diploma with distinction, for piano. Additionally, Jasmine has collaborated with the Queensland Youth Orchestras, University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra and Lismore Symphony Orchestra, on viola, piano and celeste.

Kevin has had a lengthy career as a music teacher, voice teacher, arranger, editor, conductor and singer. While finishing his conducting degree from the University of the Philippines, Kevin was regularly performing with the Ateneo Chamber Singers, the Villancico Vocal Ensemble and was music director of the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel in Quezon City. Apart from singing and teaching, he also does editorial music services.

After two years of private vocal lessons with Mr. Christopher Arceo, he applied for the Queensland Conservatorium and was accepted into the Master of Music Studies Program where he studies Opera Performance with Margaret Schindler. Shortly after arriving in Brisbane, Kevin won several first prizes at the Queensland Vocal Competition and Festival held in May 2023. Notable roles include Count Almaviva (Il Barbieri di Seviglia, scenes), Sam (Susannah, scenes), Fenton (Falstaff, scenes) and Heurtebise (Orpheé, Scenes). He is set to play Canio from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacchi in the Val Machin Opera Scenes 2024.