Rearranging existing 2-hand repertoire into single-hand: 

Both Amirov and Babadjanian wrote for healthy pianists with normal ten fingers. I had a challenge transcribing melody and bass and inner chords into five fingers. Luckily I had a precedent of Godowsky doing just that. Studying Godowsky's 'studies' on Chopin's 'studies', helped a lot in transcribing Amirov and Babadjanian.

DJ Ha is a pianist who studied with Alexandra Vinokurov and Aleksei Nasedkin. In his youth he was injured with a stroke, but thanks to discovering Godowsky, he resumed playing, this time with left hand alone. Instead of focusing on what he missed (use of right hand, accompanying, chamber music), he now makes up in teaching and composing.

Tenor Elias Wilson is a Biripi man and a performer of opera, chamber music and musical theatre. In 2023, Elias appeared in two seasons with Victorian Opera, performing in Sweeney Todd at the Sydney Opera House, and creating the role of Gary in The Visitors at Arts Centre Melbourne. Elias has previously appeared on the opera stages of Pinchgut Opera (Cavalli's The Loves of Apollo & Dafne), NIDA (Lysander in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Pacific Opera (Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore) and in drag as Madame de la Haltière for Sydney Conservatorium of Music's production of Massenet's Cendrillon.

In-demand as a chamber music and oratorio performer, Elias has toured Bach's St John Passion to regional NSW as Evangelist, and in 2022 toured Handel's Messiah to Darwin as soloist with conductor Brett Weymark OAM. Elias performed as an associate artist with The Song Company from 2018 to 2022, and appears on two of their albums; Songs From The Heart and Burden of Truth. Elias has also recorded for ABC Classic under the direction of Tamara-Anna Cislowska as part of Luminescence Chamber Singers. He appears regularly as soloist and lay clerk with the choirs of St James King Street, St Paul's College, and St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

Elias holds a Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) and a Bachelor of Music Studies (Classical Voice) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. During his studies Elias was supported by the Donald Lionel Egerton Scholarship, and the Helpmann Family Fellowship. Following his graduation, Elias was a scholarship recipient with Melba Opera .


Stacey Xiaoyu Yang is a doctoral candidate (majoring in organ performance and literature) in the studio of Professor David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. She is currently also completing a Master's degree in Collaborative Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music . She was the Organ Scholar at St Paul's College, the University of Sydney 2021and 2022 and the deputy organist and music director at Hunter Baillie Presbyterian Church, Annandale. She holds a MMus (Eastman) and LTCL in organ performance, a LMusA in piano performance and has performed extensively both in Australia and Overseas including Sydney Town Hall, Sydney Opera House, St James', King St, Christ Church St Laurence, Our Lady's Basilica at Tongeren in Belgium, Marktkirche, Wiesbaden in Germany, HongKong Cultural Centre and Cathedrals in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Antwerp, and Madrid. As a collaborative pianist, she has worked with many luminous performers including David Elton, Frank Celata, Katie Woolley, Evgeny Sorkin, Emma Scholl, Simon Lobelson, Jeremy Boulton, and Georg Pedersen. Since 2022, she has started to work for Opera Australia. She is the recipient of the prestigious Melba Opera Trust Scholarship in 2023.

Mary-Jean O'Doherty was the first winner of the Australian International Opera Award to studio at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice UK.

Mary-Jean has performed the roles of Naiad and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos for Welsh National Opera. She performed the title role of Lucia in Prague State Opera's production of Lucia di Lammermoor.

Mary-Jean made her debut at the Royal Albert Hall, London, singing the "Queen of the Night's vengeance aria" in Raymond Gubbay's Classical Spectacular concert.

Mary-Jean won first prize in the 2013 Paris Opera Awards, performing Lakme's Bell Song in the Salle Gaveau with orchestra,

In May 2015 Mary-Jean represented Armenia as part of the group Genealogy at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.

In 2019 Mary-Jean performed the role of the Italian Princess in London Armenian Opera's production of Stepanian's Kaj Nazar. She also sang as the soprano soloist for Rossini's Stabat Mater in Llandaff Cathedral, Wales.

Mary-Jean has also performed roles with English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Tiroler Festpiele Erl, and Teatro Communale Bolzano.

Mary-Jean's voice was used in the January 2023 Sydney Opera House production of "Amadeus" singing the Queen of the Night's vengeance aria.

Jed Atienza started his piano lessons at the age of 6 and by the time he reached 12, he had started learning the pipe organ. During his Primary and Secondary years, he competed in various piano competitions such as the Sydney Eisteddfod and also pipe organ competitions conducted by the Organ Music Society of Sydney, receiving a Highly Commendation award for his performances.

In the 2015 Junior Music Festival, presented by the Music Teachers Association of NSW, Jed won 1st Prize and received the Miriam Hyde Piano Award. He was also selected to participate in the Young Organist's Day at Sydney Town Hall for four consecutive years from 2014 to 2017.

Jed received his Associate Diploma on the Piano through the Australian Music Examination Board in 2017. In 2018 he was awarded an Associate Diploma in Music Performance with Distinction on the Pipe Organ, and in 2019 a Licentiate Diploma also on the Pipe Organ by Trinity College London.

The qualities that Jed loves about the pipe organ is that it is an iconic, orchestral and highly sacred instrument which produces the most celestial and soothing harmonies, as well as triumphant proclamations. He believes that it is the most sacred of all musical instruments designed to carry the voices, praises and prayers of people to Heaven.

Jed is currently a 4th year student at The University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music majoring in a "Bachelor of Music Composition for Creative Industries".

Jed loves music as it has a healing power and it releases positive energy. To him, music brings joy and people together.