Ralf Eisenbeiß wurde 1952 in Zeulenroda geboren. Nach dem Abitur studierte er an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zwickau Pädagogik, Germanistik und Musikerziehung. Er promovierte 1979 zum Dr. phil. Von 1978-1981 studierte er an der Musikhochschule “Franz Liszt” in Weimar Chor- und Orchesterdirigieren.

Als Inhaber des Lehrstuhles Chorleitung und Chorgesang an der Pädagogischen Hochschule in Zwickau wurde Ralf Eisenbeiß 1987 zum Professor berufen. Er war Leiter des Chores dieser Einrichtung, der im In- und Ausland bekannt war und bei nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerben zahlreiche Preise gewann. Neben einem umfangreichen Repertoire an a cappella-Literatur verschiedenster Jahrhunderte standen auch chorsinfonische Werke auf dem Programm.

Ralf Eisenbeiß war Dozent beim Zentralen Chorleiterseminar in Berlin und leitete selbst zahlreiche Seminare. Er ist häufig Gastdirigent im In- und Ausland. Seit fast 30 Jahren ist er künstlerischer Direktor für INTERKULTUR. Er gründete den Int. Robert-Schumann-Chorwettbewerb in Zwickau und ist Mitbegründer der World Choir Games. Bisher war er künstlerisch in der Verantwortung für etwa 150 internationale Wettbewerbe in Deutschland, Italien, Korea, Indonesien, China, Österreich, Spanien, den USA und anderen Ländern. Ralf Eisenbeiß wurde sehr oft als Juror von nationalen und internationalen Chorwettbewerben in der ganzen Welt.

Miranda Caldi is Associate Professor of Choral Conducting at the Music Department of the Ionian University. She specializes in the performance of vocal music of the Renaissance period and the performance of “Opera for Youth”.

She gained her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Cape Town in 1972 with the award of the “Eric Chisolm Memorial Prize for General Excellence‟. She gained her Master of Arts degree at the University of York in 1992 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Practice in 2002.

Since 1994 she has been Director of the University Choir and Vocal Ensemble at the Ionian University. During this time she has conducted a number of significant performances in Greece and abroad. These have included large and smaller choral works from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century and many world premiers of the works of Greek composers.

Her interests also include the area of “Opera for Youth‟ in which she has taught and organized a number of productions including an International Festival for Youth Opera and commissioned new works from significant contemporary composers. Her editions of the masses of Franciscus Leondaritis have been published by York University Early Music Press and her CD Franciscus Leondaritis Missa super Aller mi fau(l)t (sur) la verdure and four motets was voted one of the top 20 CDs by the magazine Jazz and Jazz in 2003.

Dimitris Ktistakis was born in Larissa. He studied at the Saarland College of Music and Dramatic Art, where he acquired a degree in Piano Teaching and three postgraduate degrees in Piano Performance, Choral Conducting and Orchestral Conducting. He worked as Assistant Conductor of the Saarland University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. For ten years he has been founder and conductor of various vocal ensembles, main conductor of the award-winning Madrigalchor Dillingen and a scholar of the Richard Wagner Foundation.

He has served as judge in numerous choral competitions and as choir director in official ceremonies of the Saarland state. He taught Vocal Ensemble Direction at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was orchestral and choral director at the Municipal Conservatory of Kozani. Today he is Artistic Director of the women’s vocal ensemble “InDONNAtion,” based in the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, where he also teaches choral conducting, and of the Trikala Youth Symphony Orchestra. With “InDONNAtion” he has received three gold awards in three successive competitions organized by INTERKULTUR (in Kalamata, Corfu and Riga).

He is a Doctoral Candidate in choral conducting at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University at Corfu, while teaching choral conducting at the Ionian University and directing the department’s choir. As of January 2016, he is directing the Greek National Radio Choir (ERT).

Maria Emma Meligopoulou holds a Master Degree in Choral Conducting from Boston University CFA and a PhD from Ionian University Music Department. She has also studied Law at Aristotle University.

Currently, she is adjunct Lecturer at Macedonia University, where she teaches choral conducting techniques and directs University Choirs. She is also Professor of Choral Conducting at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki. She has performed in Greece, Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, UK), Asia (Israel, Turkey, Singapore, China, Japan), Africa (Egypt, South Africa), America (USA, Canada).

As Choral Director she has been several times recipient of First Prizes with her own Choir “Ss. Cyril & Methodios Choir”, among them the Moscow Sounds Festival, INTERKULTUR Festivals, Loto Quebec Festival (Canada), etc.

She is councilmember of the World Choir Games and she is on demand as lecturer, guest conductor and adjudicator in international symposiums, festivals and workshops in Europe, USA and Asia. In 1992 she founded the Ss. Cyril & Methodios Children’s and Youth Choir, the largest choral organization in Northern Greece with over 250 singers in five departments.

She is author of the textbook Introduction to the Art of Choral Praxis (2011) 3rd Edition in 2013 and the Music Edition: 42 Choral Works for Equal Voices by Greek Composers (2014), both available by Nakas-Papagregoriou Editions, Athens.

Fred Sjöberg wurde 1953 geboren und ist ein ausgebildeter Sänger und Chorleiter an der Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm und Örebro. Er studierte u.a. unter Prof. Solwig Grippe, Prof. Eric Ericson und Prof. Helmuth Rilling. Er war der erste Chorleiter, der drei der wichtigsten Jugendchöre wie etwa den World Youth Choir (1991 und 2005), den World Chamber Choir (1993) und den European Youth Choir (1999) leitete.

Als die schwedische Organisation für junge Chöre "UngiKör" ins Leben gerufen wurde, wurde er zum ersten Präsidenten gewählt. 2000 ernannte ihn die schwedische Chorleitervereinigung SCDA zum "Chorleiter des Jahres" und ehrte ihn 2001 mit der Johannes Norrby Medaille für herausragende Verdienste in Bezug auf das schwedische Chorleben. Von 1997 bis 2004 war er als musikalischer Direktor und Chorleiter des Projektes "Notes for Millions" tätig.

Von 2000 bis 2004 war er außerdem musikalischer Direktor des schwedischen Chorzentrums und künstlerischer Leiter des Lund International Choral Festivals von 2005 bis 2006. Seit 2009 arbeitet er als musikalischer Direktor des internationalen schwedischen Chorzentrums in Örebro. Darüber hinaus war Fred Sjöberg war als Vizepräsident von Europa Cantat, Präsident der Musikkommission bei Europa Cantat und als Vizepräsident des IFCM tätig.

Er ist Mitglied des Councils und des künstlerischen Direktoriums bei INTERKULTUR.

Seit 2015 ist er als künstlerischer Direktor bei INTERKULTUR aktiv.

Explorer of the human voice, compassionate and inspiring teacher, Tobias Hug has been singing, teaching, travelling for 20 years and is deeply involved with the international choral, beatbox and a cappella scene.

He currently performs with his group ‘Beatvox’, the World Beatbox Team Champions ‘The Beatbox Collective’ and is in high demand as a teacher, adjudicator and coach. A speciality of his is working with and promoting Loop Stations through his ‘Vocaloops’ community.

With the choir ‘London Voices’ he has contributed to countless movie soundtracks (The Hobbit, Interstellar).

From 2001-2012, Tobias sang with Grammy-Award winning a cappella group The Swingle Singers. As their bass and vocal percussionist he was part of seven studio albums, and performed more than 700 concerts.

Tobias is a vocal entrepreneur, co-founding and acting as Artistic Director for many a cappella festivals (e.g Vocalmente, London A Cappella Festival) and, in 2017, co-creating the Worlds Largest Beatbox Choir (6500 children in Hong Kong), entering the Guinness Book of Records.

He holds a Master in Rhythmic Choir Conducting and Vocal Leadership from the Royal Academy of Aalborg.

Dimitris Ktistakis was born in Larissa. He studied at the Saarland College of Music and Dramatic Art, where he acquired a degree in Piano Teaching and three postgraduate degrees in Piano Performance, Choral Conducting and Orchestral Conducting. He worked as Assistant Conductor of the Saarland University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. For ten years he has been founder and conductor of various vocal ensembles, main conductor of the award-winning Madrigalchor Dillingen and a scholar of the Richard Wagner Foundation.

He has served as judge in numerous choral competitions and as choir director in official ceremonies of the Saarland state. He taught Vocal Ensemble Direction at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was orchestral and choral director at the Municipal Conservatory of Kozani. Today he is Artistic Director of the women’s vocal ensemble “InDONNAtion,” based in the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, where he also teaches choral conducting, and of the Trikala Youth Symphony Orchestra. With “InDONNAtion” he has received three gold awards in three successive competitions organized by INTERKULTUR (in Kalamata, Corfu and Riga).

He is a Doctoral Candidate in choral conducting at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University at Corfu, while teaching choral conducting at the Ionian University and directing the department’s choir. As of January 2016, he is directing the Greek National Radio Choir (ERT).

Already at the age of 7, Ana Meeusen got the taste of singing and choral singing from the youth choir Scaldis Cantat. She obtained her master's degree in singing with Lucienne van Deyck in 2000 at the conservatory in Antwerp. In the meantime, she followed courses at the Lichtenberger institute where she was taught by Ruth Weimer, Gisela Romert and Martin Landzettel. She took courses in overtone singing, voice work and sound healing with Borg Groeneveld, Jan Kortie and Nestor Kornblum and Michele Averard.

Ana gave voice lessons, voice formation, vocal ensemble and choir at the academy of Borgerhout and the conservatory of Antwerp. She has collaborated on productions with Collegium Vocale, Soratea, Brussels Cathedral Choir, the Goeyvaert consort, Reflection, Victoria Consort and puppet theater de Spiegel. She sings as an alto to Currende under the guidance of Erik Van Nevel and Studium Chorale, directed by Hans Leenders.

Within the ekerse C-choir she conducted the youth choir Carmina for 19 years and for 8 years she conducted the Caljenté adult choir, which she also co-founded. Together with Johannes Dewilde, she supervises the training for children's choir conductors in Ghent.

At the Utrecht conservatory she followed the application training for choral conducting. She obtained her diploma with the highest distinction.

In 2012 she has her Chamber Choir Pantarhei born.

Ana also walks the spiritual path. Through a lot of inner work she comes more and more in connection with her authentic self and from there she also gives her workshops, concerts and projects to invite everybody in the experience of singing and sound.

Mārtiņš Ozoliņš is the Chief Conductor of the Latvian National Opera and has worked as the guest conductor with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Tampere Philarmonic Orchestra, and Orchestra della Fondazione Teatro Lirico “Giuseppe Verdi” di Trieste. He is a graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music Choir Conducting Department with Prof. Edgars Račevskis and Symphony Orchestra Conducting Department with Prof. Imants Resnis. He improved his professional skills with Helmuth Rilling, Gintaras Rinkevičius, and Vassily Sinaisky. He is the Head of the Department of Orchestra Conducting at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music since 2010.

He has been the laureate of several international conducting competitions including 4th Jorma Panula Conducting Competition. Mārtiņš Ozoliņš has toured to Moscow, Mexico, Tamper, Trieste, Catania, Muscat, Leipzig, Gdansk etc. Mārtiņš Ozoliņš was the Artistic Director of the brass orchestra “Rīga” (2011–2015). He has been the conductor of the LNO since 2005 and the Chief Conductor of the LNO since 2013. From 1997 - 2016 he was artistic director and conductor of mixed choir "Sonore".

Marit Tøndel Bodsberg stammt aus Byneset in Norwegen. Sie erhielt ihren Bachelor-Abschluss in Musik-Performance von der Universität Agder/ dem Musikkonservatorium Kristiansand (Schwerpunkte Komposition, Gesang und Flöte). Im Jahr 2005 war sie die einzige Studentin, die für ein Masterstudium in Dirigieren an der Norwegischen Akademie für Musik zugelassen wurde. Zu den führenden norwegischen Chören und Ensembles, mit denen sie zusammenarbeitete, gehören der Norwegische Solistenchor, Vocal Art, Gjøvik Sinfonietta, Mjøsmusikk, der Osloer Kammerchor, der Kammerchor der Norwegischen Akademie für Musik und die Ringsaker Opera. Neben dem Dirigat von Kvindelige Studenterssangforening ist sie auch als künstlerische Leiterin und Dirigentin des Vestoppland Chamber Choir, der Norwegian Student Choral Society und als Universitätslektorin an der Musikhochschule Oslo tätig.

Im Herbst 2012 erhielt Bodsberg Weyde den Dirigentenpreis für den Auftritt der Kvindelige Studenterssangforening beim nationalen Chorwettbewerb Norwegens, und im Sommer 2015 führte sie den gleichen Chor zum Sieg bei den European Choir Games und Grand Prix of Nations in Magdeburg. Im Herbst 2015 wurde sie mit dem Dirigentenpreis ausgezeichnet, während sie mit dem Vestoppland Chamber Choir beim Canta al Mar Wettbewerb in Spanien und im Sommer 2017 erneut beim Anton Bruckner Chorwettbewerb und Festival in Linz am Wettbewerb mit der Norwegischen Studentenchorgesellschaft teilnahm.