Sara Matteucci is a choral conductor and musicologist. A graduate of Choral Music and Choral Conducting and of History of Music, she is professor of Choral Singing at "Luigi Boccherini" Conservatory of Lucca.

Her artistic activity has led her to work in the main Italian theatres and abroad, collaborating with renowned personalities such as Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Oren, Yu Feng, Hirofumi Yoshida, and taking part in more than 250 opera productions and numerous symphonic-choral concerts, including Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Puccini's Mass, Mahler's Symphony n.8, Cherubini's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana and Rossini's Petite Messe, among others. She is specialised in children's vocality and is official conductor of the children's choir of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. From 1996 to 2022 he has prepared and conducted the children's voices of the "S. Cecilia" Chapel and Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and from 2010 to 2016 the children's voices and youth choir of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. Director of the musicological magazine "Codice 602" (ed. Sillabe), she is often invited to be part of jury panels in national and international choral competitions and has numerous publications and participations as lecturer at conferences and conventions to her credit.

Erika Budai studied as a pianist and professional musician at the Royal Music Academy of Brussels and Lemmens Institute of Louvain (Belgium). She participated in composition master classes in Germany under Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and Wolfgang Rihm, as well as attending choral education in Belgium, Italy, Hungary and Israel. Erika Budai received several numbers of commissions for the Belgian Radio Choir and composed a great deal of compulsory pieces for national and international choir competitions. So far she has composed approximately 160 works, mostly for choral and chamber music. Erika Budai is regularly invited as a jury member at national and international music competitions in Belgium, Italy, Slovakia and Croatia. She is appointed as a teacher of music composition and harmony at the Music Conservatory of Louvain (Belgium).

Unanimously recognized as one of the greatest interpreters of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire, Giovanni Acciai studied choral music, choir conducting organ and organ composition at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, and took his master degree in musicology at Pavia University.

He was conductor of the Chamber Choir and of the Symphonic Choir of the Italian Broadcast and of the Corale Universitaria of Turin. Presently, he is the conductor and artistic director of the vocal and instrumental ensembles “I Solisti del Madrigale”, and “Nova ars cantandi”, with which he carries out an intense concert and recording activity; he has published several articles and reviews on early music, musicological essays, as well as recordings of unreleased works for the publishers Antes, Stradivarius, Sarx, Unda maris, Tactus and Archiv Deutsches Grammophon.

His latest CD production with Nova Ars Cantandi, the "Armonici entusiasmi di Davide" by Giovanni Battista Bassani, has been nominated for the International Classic Music Award as the best CD of the year 2017 in the category Early Music.

His CD "Contrafacta" was named album of the month for the magazines Classic Voice and Amadeus as well as his CD "Responsoria" by Leonardo Leo for the music critic review Musica. He teaches musical history and early music semiography at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, moreover he is the artistic director of the International choir competitions of Quartiano, Grado, Perugia and Lucca. He is regularly invited as an international jury member and jury president in most renewed choir competitions; he is sought after as a lecturer at conferences of musicology and asked to hold masterclasses for choral conducting in Italy and abroad.

For his high-ranking international artistical achievements in 1991, he was appointed honorary member of the American Choral Directors Associations (ACDA). Giovanni Acciai was a member in the panel of the International juries at the Choir Olympics as well as the World Choir Games and since 2004 he is an active member and official representative for Italy in the World Choir Games International World Choir Council. Since 2014, he is artistic director of the Accademia di Musica Antica of Milan and since 2005 active member of the Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne” (REMA) of Versailles.