It's Opera Aria time with coach/pianist, Miah Im, who recently took over as Director of Opera Studies at Rice University. With over 80 operas in her repertoire, Im has served on the music staffs for Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Ravinia Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, The Juilliard School and the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy.

Toufic Maatouk, one of the most compelling conductors of his generation, began his tenure as Artistic Director of Beirut Chants Festival in Lebanon in 2012. Maatouk was appointed Artistic Director and Choir Master of the Antonine University Choir, in August 2005 and Head of the vocal department in the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music in October 2015.