Catherine Loke began piano lessons in Kuala Lumpur at the age of five. At eighteen, she obtained an Associate of Trinity College of Music, London (ATCL) diploma in piano performance. Subsequently, she went to Melbourne, Australia, to study architecture.

Whilst an architecture student, she studied singing with Margaret Arnold and was actively involved in both the Melbourne and Monash University Choral Societies as a chorister as well as a soloist. Apart from occasional solo engagements, she also sang with The Victoria Chamber Singers. In 1992, she served as the assistant conductor of the Monash University Choral Society.

Catherine has a particular interest in Early Music. She has participated in masterclasses by Emma Kirkby & Anthony Rooley, as well as the baroque singing course at The Innsbruck International Summer Academy for Early Music under Jessica Cash.

After graduating with an honours degree in architecture from The University of Melbourne, Catherine moved to Singapore in 1993, where she studied singing with Quek Soo Hiang from 1994-1998, and sang with The Philharmonic Chamber Choir from 1995-2005. She has been studying singing with William Lim from 2003 to the present.

In addition to her musical activities, she is a partner in an architectural practice.

Marianne Tan was active in her NUS Raffles Hall scene and awarded "Culture Person of the Year 1998" for various arts participations. She has continued to study singing under Korean Soprono Jeong Ae Ree. She has been a part of the SRT Young Co., Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO), and as a soloist with Vocal Associates.

Performances include To Freedom With Love (2000, directed by Nicholas Lee) ascast and choral trainer, Dick Lee's Re: Mix (2001 SRT) as singer and dancer, Neil Gaiman's The White Road (2001 SRT) as Main Cast, A Tribute to Sondheim (2003), Grisette in Lehar's The Merry Widow (2004 SLO), as a chorister in Puccini's Madama Butterfly

(2005 SLO) and in the SLO educational touring company as Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

Marianne has trained formally in ballet, piano and singing. She currently holds a DipABRSM (singing) and ATCL, and sang at the Trinity College of Music High Scorer's Concert in Nov 2004.

On Sundays, she directs the Bethany Trinity Presbyterian Church Singing Group. She joined Ab Oriente in 2005 and also sings with a cappella group Upbeat.

Thomas Manhart studied Opera, Oratorio and Lied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and in Vienna with Hanno Blaschke and Helena Laszarska, and in masterclasses with Donald George, Martin Hummel and Paul Esswood. His main education, however, he obtained in his hometown in Bavaria from Sabine Schütz. His interest for early liturgical music led him to monasteries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain for courses in Gregorian Chant, and Renaissance and Baroque singing.

After his change from bass to male alto, Thomas concentrated on

vocal therapy and vocal education as well as ethnomusicology. He obtained a teacher's diploma for music, religious sciences and German language, a Master of Arts in music (vocal) education, psychology and theology from Passau University as well as recently a PhD in Southeast Asian Arts from the National University of Singapore.

Thomas is a private vocal coach and lecturer for ethnomusicology and German Vocal music at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts as well as lecturer for Indonesian music at the National University of Singapore.

His performances include solo parts as bass, later alto, in numerous masses by Haydn, Mozart and Palestrina, Händel's Messiah (bass arias) and Vivaldi's Magnificat. He sang Colas in Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne in Germany and Purcell's Fairy Queen under Charles Brett in Spain. His appearances as Gamelan player include the opening of Esplanade and regular performances at the Asian Civilisations Museum with the NUS Singha Nglaras Gamelan group.

Thomas has recently founded and registered his own music company, artyfakt, providing intercultural music education, performance, and research.

An architect by training, Malaysian tenor Alan Lau began singing in his secondary school choir in Singapore . After relocating to Perth , Western Australia for further studies, he sang solo and chorus parts with several local ensembles including Collegium Musicum Choir and St George's Baroque Consort. He was a founding member of the Giovanni Consort, a chamber choir comprising Perth 's most promising young singers, performing a diverse spread of works from the baroque to the 20th century.

On returning to Singapore, Alan appeared with early-music group

Musica Obscura as well as with local chamber ensembles The Singers and Ab Oriente.

In his capacity as secretary of the Classical Singers' Association ( Singapore ), an organization committed to promoting classical vocal music, Alan helped to organize the 2005 FestaCanzone Art Song Festival and Competition at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay.

Alan is currently training under tenor Lim Shieh Yih. Recently, he appeared in Voce 2008, a concert series by students of Mr Lim, on the 180th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert. In previous Voce productions, he has sung the parts of Ferrando and Idomeneo in excerpts from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Idomeneo respectively. In 2007 he sang the part of Acis in OperaStudio' s production of Handel's Acis & Galatea. In 2009 he appeared, also with Operastudio, in the title role of Gustav Holst's The Wandering Scholar at the Esplanade Recital Studio.

An IT specialist by profession, Shui Jiang Tian began his musical education in Xi'an, China, where he studied er-hu and violin as a boy. He then learned guitar & drums by self-study, as well as singing, composing and conducting. Whilst a university student, he conducted the Northwestern Polytechnic University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, wrote music for and led them to gold prizes in provincial competitions between 1984 and 1989. He also won the first prize in the singing category in the 1st Pop-Song Open Competition of Shaanxi Province in 1987.

Since moving to Singapore in 1991, Jiang Tian has taken an active role in the local music scene. He was the third prize winner (no first prize) in the Vocal Open Category of the 10th National Music Competition in 1995. Since then, he has been invited as tenor soloist in quite a few concerts, including Mozart's Requiem with The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, From Poems To Songs with the National Theatre Club, and the Singapore Lyric Opera's production, etc.

Jiang Tian's compositions have been performed by choirs worldwide. Local schools singing his arrangements have won top prizes in national competition. In particular, his arrangement of Usuli Boat Song, composed for The Philharmonic Chamber Choir (TPCC) under Maestro Lim Yau, was published by the American publisher "Earthsongs", and has been performed by The Philharmonic Chamber Choir at a number of significant events, with himself singing the tenor solo, namely the opening and closing ceremonies of the 5th International Choral Competition, Riva del Garda, Italy (1998), the Folklore Category of the 19th Béla Bartók International Choir Competition, Debrecen, Hungary (2000), and the International Performing Arts Festival in Tokyo (2002). In 2004, Singapore Youth Choir commissioned and world-premiered his arrangement of the Chinese folksong "Water Flowing In The Brook" in their 40th Anniversary Concert. This work has just been published by Germany publisher "Carus verlog".