Ralf Eisenbeiß nació en 1952 en Zeulenroda. Después del examen de secundaria, estudió pedagogía, filología alemana y enseñanza musical. Se doctoró en 1979 en la Universidad Pedagógica de Zwickau. De 1978 a 1981, estudió Dirección de Coros y Orquestas en el Conservatorio Franz Liszt de Weimar.

Ralf Eisenbeiß trabajó como director del Departamento Coral de la Universidad Pedagógica de Zwickau y fue nombrado profesor de Dirección Coral y Canto Coral en 1987. Fue director de orquesta del renombrado coro de la Universidad Pedagógica de Zwickau. Con el coro interpretó un gran repertorio de composiciones para coros a capela y también con orquesta. Bajo su dirección, el coro ganó numerosos premios en concursos nacionales e internacionales de coros.

Ralf Eisenbeiß fue conferenciante en el Seminario Central para Directores de Coros en Berlín y organizó numerosos talleres él mismo. A menudo, participa como director invitado en eventos nacionales y en el extranjero. Trabaja como director artístico en INTERKULTUR desde hace más de veinte años. Ralf Eisenbeiß es fundador del Concurso Internacional Robert Schumann de Coros en Zwickau y uno de los fundadores de los World Choir Games (Juegos Internacionales de Coros). Desde 1992 ha sido responsable de la celebración de un centenar concursos internacionales de INTERKULTUR en Alemania, Italia, Corea, Indonesia, China, Austria, España, EE. UU. y otros países. Ralf Eisenbeiß recibe numerosas invitaciones a participar como jurado en concursos corales nacionales e internacionales en todo el mundo.

Romāns Vanags is a graduate of Emils Darzins' specialized music college and of the Department of Choir and Orchestra Conducting of Jazeps Vitols' Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. He has received a diploma in choir conducting and in music pedagogy and additionally studied orchestra conducting.

In 2003, Vanags received the master's degree in music. His professional work is focused on conducting and pedagogy. He served as the Chief Conductor of the teachers' choir "Vanema" for a long time and since 1990 as the principal Conductor of the Latvian University female choir "Minjona". Furthermore he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Jāzeps Mediņš Music School boys` choir and worked with the Jazeps Medins Music College Symphonic Orchestra. From 1987 thru 1994, Vanags was employed at the Latvian Music Academy in Riga as professor of choir conducting and as the conductor of the academy choir. From 2005 to 2012 Vanags was the head of the Conducting Department.

Vanags has been appointed as one of the chief conductors of the All Latvian Song Celebration and the Youth Song Festival. Since 2004, Vanags is the chairman of the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO on the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, and since 2008, he is also a member of the World Choir Council. In 2008 Romāns Vanags received the highest civil decoration in Latvia – the Three Star Order. Romāns Vanags was a member of the artistic committee of the 8th World Choir Games in Riga and belongs since 2014 to the Artistic Board of INTERKULTUR.

Stathis Giftakis was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1967. He studied piano with Dora Bakopoulou and composition with Theodore Antoniou.

His compositions have been successfully performed in Greece and abroad in Turkey, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, United States and Russia among others by "ALEA III" in Boston, the "Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music", "Orchestra of Colors", "Arcadian Woodwind Quintet" and the "Artefacts Ensemble".

Works of him have been selected for workshops of contemporary music and have been awarded in several competitions. Many of his works have been commissioned by and performed at festivals such as the "Athens Greek Festival", "Volos Music Theatre Festival", "Kalamata Dance Festival", "Greece in Milan", "Aegena Music Festival", "Mediterranean music festival Istanbul" and the "Festival of Sacred Music of Patmos".

Stathis Giftakis is a Member of the Greek Composers' Union Board and was appointed as the Director of Kalamata Municipal Conservatory from 2003 to 2009 and then again from September 2015 where he teaches piano and music theory.

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.

Reconocido unánimemente como uno de los más grandes intérpretes del repertorio vocal renacentista y barroco, Giovanni Acciai estudió órgano, composición y dirección coral, y obtuvo un máster en Semiótica de la Música Antigua y Filología de la Música por la Universidad de Pavía. En 1982 ganó el concurso para la edición crítica de la Messa di Gloria de Gioacchino Rossini, organizado por la Fundación Rossini de Pesaro y publicado por Casa Ricordi. Ha sido director del Coro de Cámara de la Radiotelevisión Italiana (RAI) y del Corale Universitaria de Turín, y actualmente es director y director artístico de los conjuntos vocales e instrumentales "I Solisti del Madrigale" y "Nova ars Cantandi", que celebran numerosos conciertos y sesiones de grabación. Su producción literaria y musical comprende numerosas publicaciones de música antigua, ensayos musicológicos, reseñas y grabaciones de obras inéditas para las editoriales Antes, Stradivarius, Sarx, Unda maris, Tactus, Archiv Deutsches Grammophon y Naxos. Su CD «Armonici entusiasmi di Davide» de Giovanni Battista Bassani fue nominado al mejor CD de 2017 en la categoría "Early Music" en los International Classic Music Awards y su CD "Contrafacta" de Monteverdi fue nombrado "Álbum del mes" en las revistas "Classic Voice" y "Amadeus", así como su CD Responsoria de Leonardo Leo en las reseñas críticas de Musica.

En 2019 este CD fue galardonado con el prestigioso Premio Franco Abbiati de la Asociación Nacional de Críticos Musicales. Además de dirigir cursos sobre semiótica de la música antigua en el Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" de Milán, es director artístico de los concursos corales internacionales de INTERKULTUR en Grado y Perugia. Es invitado regularmente como miembro y presidente de jurados internacionales en concursos corales de renombre y es solicitado como conferenciante y profesor en congresos de musicología y clases magistrales de dirección coral en Italia y en el extranjero. Por sus logros artísticos de alto nivel e internacionales, fue nombrado miembro honorario de la American Choral Directors Associations (ACDA) en 1991. Giovanni Acciai fue miembro del jurado internacional de los World Choir Games y es miembro activo y representante oficial de Italia en el World Choir Council. Desde 2015, es miembro activo del Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne (REMA) de Versalles. Desde 2022, es miembro de la Fédération des ensembles vocaux et instrumentaux spécialisés (FEVIS), con sede en París, y ese mismo año fundó el festival internacional "Musica Mirabilis" en Clusone (Bérgamo), dedicado al redescubrimiento de la música vocal e instrumental de Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690).

Søren Birch studied choral and orchestra conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. After his graduation he has made further studies in choral conducting in Sweden and in orchestral conducting in the Czech Republic.He is the founder and conductor of the chamber choir Coro Misto, Aalborg and of Midtjysk Kammerkor (Central Jutland Chamber Choir). He has an extensive concert activity, and several cd’s with a comprehensive a cappella repertoire has been published.He is vocal coach for the Symphony Orchestra of Aalborg. With this and other orchestras he has performed a great deal of the repertoire for choir and orchestra.Søren Birch has conducted the Danish Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Alongside his conducting career Søren Birch is active as a composer. He is a representative of the  “Nordic style”, and has published several of his works on Music Sales Classical.For many years Søren Birch has been an associate professor the Royal Academy of Music and he has an extensive activity as an instructor of choral events and conducting courses in Denmark.

Peter Habermann received his first musical education as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor. This was followed by a course of Vocal Studies in Dresden which he passed with a First Class Honours degree to be a singing teacher. Since 1984, he has been teaching at the Landesgymnasium für Musik Wernigerode. His scope of work covers both the field of vocal training and the choral education of this institution’s students.

For many years, he acted as a Deputy Artistic Director of the Rundfunkjugendchor Wernigerode with Friedrich Krell. Later, he led the institution’s Children Choir with great success before he became Artistic Director of the Rundfunkjugendchor in 1996, a responsibility that he held until 2004 and has been holding again from 2008 until today.

His work with this internationally renowned ensemble has been rewarded with numerous prizes, and has resulted in many CD recordings as well as concert tours both at home and abroad.

In 2003, he founded the Wernigerode Chamber Choir, a project choir comprising former Rundfunkjugendchor members which he led until 2010. He is also committed to amateur music: for 10 years, he conducted the men’s choir of the village Drübeck. Peter Habermann is an active singer, speaker and juror for INTERKULTUR events and the German Choral Contest.

Gulmira Kuttybadamova graduated from the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty in 1994.

Already starting during her studies until 1998 she was choirmaster of the State Choral Chapel. Subsequently, from 1998 until 2011 she was head of the Choral Conducting Department at Kazakh National University of Arts. There she co-developed the educational program of the Choir Conducting Department. Moreover Kuttybadamova initiated and organized the Choir Festival "Astana - on the wings of song" in 2000, 2008 and 2010 and organized a number of workshops for students and choirmasters.

Gulmira Kuttybadamova is professor at the Kazakh National University of Arts and founder and art director of the "Samgau" Chamber Choir which is affiliated to the university and the Children's Choir "Eligai".

Further she is the art director and chief conductor of the "State Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Astana".

Kuttybadamova is a Laureate of the State Scholarship (2011, 2012) and was appointed "Honored Culture Worker" for the "Excellence in education" by the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Under her direction choirs have received top prizes at different international competitions.

Gulmira Kuttybadamova is regularly invited to judge at national and international choir competitions all over the world.

Miltos Logiadis studied theory and piano at the National Conservatory, where he was awarded "First Prize and Distinction for Outstanding Performance". He continued his studies with a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation at the Munich Academy of Music where he was awarded diplomas for choral and orchestral conducting, as well as a Meisterklasse Diploma, with the highest grade ever granted by the Academy.

On completion of his studies, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Munich Academy of Music, conducting the Madrigal Chorus. He went on to become conductor of the Opera of Ulm.

In 1992, he returned to Greece and became the permanent conductor of the Orchestra of Colours, a position he holds until today. He has performed numerous concerts in Greece and abroad and has made numerous recordings which include works by Greek and foreign composers.

Logiadis has conducted many leading orchestras, among them the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

For the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004, he recorded the majority of the works of music presented during the opening and closing ceremonies with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Greek National Symphony Orchestra.

At the present time, he is the artistic director of Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall and professor of Conducting at the Department of Music of the Ionio University.

Rosie Mastrosavva nació en Rodas. Estudió piano, monodia y teoría avanzada de la música en el Conservatorio Nacional de Atenas y asistió a clases de dirección coral impartidas por A. Kontogeorgiou y M. Logiadis. Continuó sus estudios en Alemania, en la Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, y los completó con matrícula de honor y un máster en dirección coral. Ha asistido a numerosas clases magistrales de dirección de coro y orquesta. Rosie Mastrosavva ha dirigido varios coros en Alemania y Grecia, entre ellos Melismachor, Amasingers, el Coro de Estudiantes de la Universidad del Egeo y el Coro Infantil de las Agrupaciones Musicales del Municipio de Atenas. También es profesora de coro en la Escuela Superior de Música Alimos. Rosie Mastrosavva ha impartido seminarios y talleres corales internacionales en Europa y ha sido profesora en el Departamento de Educación Primaria de la Universidad del Egeo en Rodas. Ha sido miembro del jurado en numerosos concursos corales internacionales. En 2008 fundó el coro infantil y juvenil ROSARTE, que sigue dirigiendo en la actualidad. Rosarte fue el primer coro griego en ganar cuatro medallas de oro en los Juegos Corales Mundiales (2008, 2014, 2018). En diciembre de 2016, Rosarte y la directora Rosie Mastrosavva recibieron una distinción honorífica de la Academia de Atenas (Academia Athinon) por sus supremos logros culturales y artísticos. Este galardón tan respetado se concedió a un coro por primera vez en la Academia.