• Luc Anthonis gained degrees for choral conducting, Flute, chamber music and Harmony at the conservatoire of Antwerp (Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium te Antwerpen)
• Professor choral conducting and coordinator of several sections at the School of Arts (Ap Hogeschool - Conservatoire of Antwerp)
• from 1980 he conducts the youth choir Cantilene and in 1989 he started Cantando and with Cantando he did first performances of works by Flemish composers as Vic Nees, Erika Budai, Rudi Tas, Frank Agsteribbe, Jan Van der Roost…
• conducted world premiers with the Flemish Radio Choir from Lucien Posman, Roland Coryn, Vic Nees, ... and conducts the symphonic orchestra of the music academy in Ekeren where he is a teacher since 1982
• active adjudicator in National and international choir competitions

• Chairperson of the Belarusian Choir Director Association
• Head of the Choral Conducting Department and Artistic Director of the awarding-winning Student Choir of the Belarusian Academy of music
• Author and initiator of a great number of choral projects in Belarus including Open Conductor’s competition named after V. Rovdo, Choral pages of the XX-th century, etc.
• Regularly invited specialist for lectures and master classes on Russian, Belarusian Orthodox and modern choral music in Europe, Russia and China
• Adjudicator, conductor and teacher of conducting, developer of such a phenomenon in Belarus as a "choral theater"

• studied piano with Johan Duijck at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent (Belgium)and also followed choral conducting under the direction of Johan Duijck and Florian Heyerick and completed her studies at the Lemmens Institute in Louvain with conductor Erik Van Nevel and Dirk Snellings
• in 1995 she founded the chamber choir El Grillo together with several friends and has been focusing on the a capella repertoire from the Renaissance for almost 25 years
• Inge Bollaert has worked with various musicians such as Nicolas Achten, Bart Naessens, Marcel Ponseele, Marnix De Cat, Peter Kooij, and ensembles such as Arc Sonore, Aquil'AlterA, Flanders Recorder Quartet, il Gardellino, Ensemble Polyfoon, Ensemble Rafik el Maay
• regularly gives workshops as a conductor and currently teaches Musical Training at the Arteveldehogeschool in Ghent

• Erika Budai studierte als Pianistin und Komponistin an der Royal Music Academy in Brüssel und Louvain (Belgien)
• Sie besuchte Meisterkurse für Komposition und Chorausbildung in Belgien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Ungarn, Israel und Griechenland
• Sie erhielt Aufträge für den belgischen Rundfunkchor und komponierte mehrere Pflichtwerke für nationale und internationale Chorwettbewerbe
• Erika Budai wird regelmäßig als Jurymitglied zu nationalen und internationalen Musik- und Chorwettbewerben eingeladen

• Gründer und Chorleiter von Eskifaia (1978-1994), KCK (1995-2007) und Aquam Lauda Korua (2014).
• Jurymitglied bei Kompositions- und Interpretationswettbewerben für Chöre und Gastchorleiter weltweit.
• Träger von Auszeichnungen des Orféon Donostiarra & der Universität des Baskenlandes.
• Veröffentlichung von Kompositionen im Baskenland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Japan, USA, Großbritannien und Schweden.

• National First Class Dirigent und Vizepräsident der chinesischen Chorvereinigung
• Direktor des Komitees für Großchöre der chinesischen Chorvereinigung
• Präsident der Guangdong Chorvereinigung und Präsident der Shenzhen Chorgesellschaft
• Gründer und Leiter des internationalen Projekts für die chorpädagogische Ausbildung Guangdong
• Leitung zahlreicher Chöre, die in den letzten Jahren bei mehreren Chorwettbewerben im In- und Ausland Champion-Titel gewonnen haben
• Gründer und künstlerischer Leiter des Shenzhen Star Bright Choir
• Mitglied des INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Composer, honorary Professor of Composition at the Hogent, School of Arts Department Music Conservatory, honorary Head of the Music Academy ‘Peter Benoit’, Harelbeke
• as a composer he was awarded several national prizes: the Jef Van Hoof Prize in 1974, the Tenuto Prize also in 1974, in 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Visser-Neerlandia Prize for the entirety of his music production
• during the years 2002 till 2012 he mainly composed for different choir formats
• co-organizer and President of the international jury of the International Harmony Composition Contest ‘Harelbeke Town of Music’

concert pianist, collaborator and choral director

• Associate of the Royal College of Music, London.
• Founder and Director of 'Soul Sounds' Sri Lanka's premiere female ensemble, and the Soul Sounds Academy  based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 
• Recognized adjudicator, lecturer, and member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council.

• obtained Master degrees both in Music Pedagogy and Choral Conducting
• under her leadership the VZW Waelrantkoren expanded to a non-profit organisation of 7 choirs; 3 children’s choirs with in total more than 250 singers and she conducts 4 of the 7 choirs herself
• teaches solfège, choral conducting and singing classes at the Academy of Music, Word and Dance in Lier
• teaches “Children- and Youth choir Conducting” within the academic postgraduate course at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp

• has been a singer for many years among others with Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale and in 1990 founded what would rapidly become a vocal ensemble of considerable standing, Kalliope
• orchestral debut in 1997 as conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. Since then, her repertoire has grown to include most major oratorios by Bach, Mozart, Verdi (Requiem), Brahms, Fauré, and other masters and has also created various works by Flemish composers
• esident choir conductor of Kalliope (Ghent), and, as of recently, the oratorium choir Altra Voce (Kortrijk) and Toon op Toon (Ronse)
• highly sought after as a choir coach and is an honorary teacher of piano at MUDA in Ghent

• works as a composer, percussionist and professor of composition and his compositions are often inspired by other cultures
• has been Composer-In-Residence at Muziektheater Transparant since 1996 and joined the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra as an Artist-In-Residence in 2013
• received various national and international prizes and in 2015 he was appointed member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium (KVAB) for Sciences and Arts
• professor of composition at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Antwerp
• main coach of the annual SoundMine composition course for young composers at Musica, Impulse Centre for Music in Belgium

• studied in Ghent, Brussels and Leuven and received First Prizes for recorder, flute and chamber music and is now Professor at the Music Conservatory in Ghent (B)
• since 1989 conductor of the Vocal Ensemble Ex Tempore and regular guest conductor at several orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe
• Artistic Director of the Musikforum Mannheim and the Mannheimer Hofkapelle (D)
• in 2000 he received the cultural prize from the City of Ghent
• dedicates his constant attention to the renewal of the repertoire through innumerable lectures and original concert programs, as designed in the remarkable Kantata project and his festival Cydonia Barocca

• was a singer and one of the founding members of the world famous vocal group The Real Group for more than 30 years
• studied choir conducting with professor Eric Ericson, and he is a frequent workshop leader, popular lecturer and well renomeed adjudicator in competitions all around the world
• Thru the years he has collaborated with groups and artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Barbara Hendricks, Gene Puerling, Take 6, Rajaton, and MPact
• since January 2019 he is chief for music in the county of Östergötland in Sweden which includes beeing the chief and producer of Östgöta Blåsarsymfoniker, one of the best wind orchestras in Sweden

• Professorin für Chorleitung und Musiktheorie am Kodály Institute der Musikakademie Liszt und Gastprofessorin am Central Conservatory of Music, Peking
• Künstlerische Leiterin und Gründungsdirigentin der Ars Nova Vokalensembles und des Kecskemét Festivalchores
• Gründungsdirektorin des Ars Nova Editio Verlages für zeitgenössische ungarische Chormusik
• Internationale Jurorin, Chorleiterin und Gastdozentin
• Mitglied des INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Dozent für Chorleitung an der Ionischen Universität und Leiter des Fakultätschores und des Vokalensembles, sowie Doktorand an der Fakultät für Musikalische Studien an der Ionischen Universität Korfu.
• Künstlerischer Direktor und Leiter des Frauenvokalensembles “InDONNAtión”.
• Künstlerischer Direktor und Leiter des Jugendsinfonieorchesters Trikala.
• Gastchorleiter des nationalen griechischen Radiochores ER.

• Vorsitzender des Children's Chorus Committee of China (China)
• Stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender der China Chorus Association
• Direktor des China Broadcasting Children's Chorus (China National Radio) seit 1983
• Jurymitglied der World Choir Games seit 2008

• graduated as Master for organ, harpsichord and choir/orchestra-conducting at the conservatories of Leuven and Paris
• since 1999 he is Principal Organist at the Sint-Gillis Church in Bruges and professor harpsichord at the Conservatory of Brussels
• frequently asked as conductor of various choirs and orchestras worldwide in the most divergent repertory
• founder and director of the ensemble Capriola di Gioia and the orchestra and choir BachPlus

• Professor of Ewha Womans University
• conductor of Ansan City Choir
• conductor of Ewha Chamber Choir
• broadcasting host for FEBC-FM Christian
• President of KFCM (Korean Federation for Choral Music)

• Professor in choral conducting and Head of Conducting Department at the Bulgarian National Academy of Music
• Since 2005 conductor of the Classic FM Radio Choir
• conducted the World Youth Choir in 2007/2008, honored by UNESCO with the title Artist for Peace, recognizing the WYC's success as a platform for intercultural dialogue through music
• frequently invited as a member of Jury-panels at a number of international choral competitions, conductor and a lecturer at prestigious international events
• has been awarded the Golden Century Star - National Award bestowed by the Minister of Culture of Bulgaria, the Golden Lyre by the Union of Bulgarian Musicians, the Heart of Sofia Prize by Sofia Municipality and Ministry of Education and Science

• honorary professor of composition and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of the University College Ghent
• founder and honorary chairman of “ComAV”, the Flanders Composers Archipelago, an interest association.
• member of The Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
• as composer he is a representative of postmodernism. His work is performed and braodcast by prominent musicians and ensembles at home and many European countries, Brazil and Russia

• Tutu Puoane is one of the exciting voices on the European/South Africa jazz music scene today
• born in Pretoria, South Africa, she studied at the Music College of the University of Cape Town (UCT) before moving to Europe in 2002
• released eight albums as a leader or featured soloist
• Puoane’s current band is a quartet and consist of musicians from Belgium and The Netherlands, performing music with elements from African, European and American music traditions that meet each other in the middle

• harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist (PhD) and choral conductor
• currently works as a researcher at AP University College Antwerp, conducting a project about new music for harpsichord
• taught several subjects at University College Ghent, Artevelde University College Ghent and AP University College Antwerp (ethnic music, ethnomusicological seminars, music history, art philosophy, piano, creative sessions), and guided numerous theses and creative projects
• currently specializing in early music (harpsichord and fortepiano) at AP University College Antwerp

• Artistic Director and chief conductor of The Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory & Professor at the Choral Conducting Department & Dean of the Office for Foreign Students’ Affairs of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
• Artistic Director of the International Festivals of Moscow Conservatory: Autumn Choral Festival named after Prof. Boris Tevlin, Dedicated to the Victory Day, The Sealed Angel, Born in Russia
• Artistic Director of the State Choir of Tula region & Professor at the Choral Conducting Department of Moscow State Institute of Music named after A.G. Schnittke
• President of Creative Initiatives Development Fund

• founder and Artistic Director of the acclaimed St. Mary’s Varsity Male Ensemble and International Show Choir of Tokyo, Japan
• music educator in choral movement and Co-Author, with Henry Leck, of Creating Artistry: Movement and the Maturing Male Voice
• edits the Randy and Rachel Choral Series for Santa Barbara Music Publishing, the Randy Stenson Male Choral Series and Randy Stenson International Choral Series for Pavane Publishing
• guest conductor, clinician-lecturer in over 30 countries
• international choral adjudicator for competitions all over the world

• studied Choral Conducting and Harmony at the conservatoire of Leuven (Lemmensinstituut Leuven)
• specialized in arranging, composing and conducting of choral pop, musical and showchoir with already more than 300 vocal pop arrangements, ranging from close harmony to vocal percussion, acapella and band-sheets
• In 2009 he founded the showchoir “Showkoor AMUSE” which he still conducts today and with whom he did big collaborations with Belgian artists like Jef Neve, Helmut Lotti, The Lighthouse, etc.
• frequently asked vocal coach in professional musicals and productions
• Currently musical director of Studio 100. This includes conducting and preparing the Studio100-choir for international live shows, being musical director and conductor of big spectacle musicals like “14-18” and “40-45”, making vocal arrangements for big TV-shows like “Ketnet Musical” and “Campus 12”, …

• taught choral conducting at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, School of between 2001 and 2011 before concentrating on the roles of conductor and artist-scholar
• after 2011 he was a free-lance conductor and has been the Artistic Director of, for example, the following Finnish choirs: Akademiska Damkören Lyran (1998–2009), Akademiska Sångföreningen (2008–2019); Kampin Laulu chamber choir (2011–2019)
• from August 2019 he is the new Artistic Director of the professional Vancouver Chamber Choir
• acted as chair of the Finnish Choral Directors’ Association (FCDA) 1997–2018 and was the Choral Conductor of the Year 2008 in Finland

• founder and Director of the multi-cultural Nelson Mandela University Choir (formerly NNMU Choir) selected to perform e.g. as guest choir at the first IFCM World Choir Expo – Macau, China 2015
• member of the Artistic Committee of the 12th IFCM World Choral Symposium, Barcelona, 2017
• clinician, lecturer and adjudicator

• Belgian soprano, inhaling singer, pianist, actress, composer (as Irma Bilbao), voice teacher, improvisator and soundpainter,
• equally applies bel canto, extended techniques, and improvisation into baroque and pop
• has developed a new extended technique, ISFV® Inhaling Singing, with its new notation for composers during her doctoral research
• premiered more than 300 works and received international rewards and did recordings for many different labels

• attended the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, where he obtained a Master’s Diploma and a Specialisation Diploma for organ, studying under Peter Pieters
• obtained a Master’s Diploma for composition under Luc Van Hove and in 2012 he obtained his Master for Orchestra Conducting under Prof. Edmond Saveniers
• since April 2000 Sebastiaan van Steenberge has been the Director of Music of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp
• combines his job with that of composer, organist and music teacher at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp

• Artistic Director and conductor of Fontys Jazz Choir, winner of the Jazz Category World Choir Games Sochi 2016
• academic teacher and conductor Ensemble Conducting at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Fontys School of Music and Performing Arts Tilburg
• recognized adjudicator, clinician, coach and arranger in the choral world of pop and jazz