Khary "K. F. Jacques" Laurent is a classical singer, composer, and hip hop producer. He has been featured on the Rosie Show (Oprah Winfrey Network), various Polish Television and radio networks, and has toured the US, Poland, and several other countries!

Currently Mr. Laurent is the head composer and playing the role of FIGARO in The Rosina Project which is the “hip hopera version of The Barber of Seville” with a cast of talented rappers, dancers, singers, a beatboxer, and a dj. The Rosina Project was included in The Pivot Arts Festival two years in a row, featured on ABC 7 News, Chicago SunTimes, and The Chicago Tribune, and twice received a grant for a citywide summer tour of Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks. His latest composition, Corsair, was a hip hop opera film commissioned by Chicago Fringe Opera for The Decameron Opera Coalition's Tales From A Safe Distance. It debuted to rave reviews in October 2020 and was awarded Best New Local Opera Production of 2020 in The Chicago Reader.

Mr. Laurent was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. He holds a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

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Andrzej Lenert is an organist, pianist, saxophonist, choir director, and vocalist, who holds a Master of Music degree from the Cracow Music Academy in his hometown of Cracow, Poland. His bass-baritone has graced stages all over the US and Europe, from chamber concerts of The Schubertiades to grand scale productions like Piotr Rubik Live in Chicago (where he now resides).

Andrzej has completed solo recordings with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, under the direction of Aurelio Canonici, and has gained notoriety as a finalist in numerous competitions throughout Poland, Austria, US, and he’s even claimed a grand prize at an international competition in Beeskov, Germany. He has also completed some postgraduate training at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

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Soprano Dana Campbell made her professional debut with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and has since been a guest artist with Virtuosi di Toronto, Toronto Classical Singers and Talisker Players, and a featured artist with the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra. With Toronto Operetta Theatre, she sang the title role in the Canadian première of Gonzalo Roig’s zarzuela Cecilia Valdes. For the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ms. Campbell appeared in their celebrated productions of Porgy and Bess, and understudied the role of Addie Parker in their production of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. With Maestro Robert Trevino and his Millennium Chamber Players, she undertook, among others, the roles of Female Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème. Other operatic roles include Donna Elvira, Countess Almaviva, Micaëla, and Violetta. Ms. Campbell appeared in concert in Austria, under the baton of Edoardo Müller, and has sung Mimì for Maestro Joseph Rescigno in Italy. Ms. Campbell performs frequently with the South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, including turns in two of the company’s acclaimed productions: as Rachel Ross in the opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, and as Claire in Troubled Island. This spring, she has performed as a member of the Adrian Dunn Singers, as a guest of Southwest Symphony Orchestra, and as understudy with Chicago Fringe Opera, taking the stage on opening night as Krystyna Zywulska in Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: Out of Darkness. Ms. Campbell is thrilled and honoured to have worked with her friend and colleague Khary “K. F. Jacques” Laurent, singing the role of Maddalena on his latest project: L’Assassino, for Resonance Works Pittsburgh.