Choir leader of the Uppsala Vocal Ensemble and works as a choir leader at "Stockholm Music High School".

studied choral and orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music Stockholm and has a Master of Education in Music with a focus on choral conducting and classical singing.

worked with the Swedish Radio Choir and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir during her studies.

one of the initiators of the national project "Live Choral Music", a platform for contemporary choral music, composers and choral.conductors.

Project manager of the "Chamber Choir of Scandinavia" and sings in the Connected Ensemble.

She was choir director of the choir of the Slovenian National Opera (2004-2009)

From 2009 she was choir director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and took over the position of artistic director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir in the 2012/2013 season 

Since September 2018 she has been Artistic Director of the Choeur de Radio France in Paris.

In February 2019 she received the Slovenian national prize "Prešeren Fund Awards 2019" for her artistic achievements in the field of choral conducting over the past three years.

Breitschaft began his musical career as a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen. 

After studying school music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main with Helmuth Rilling and Kurt Hessenberg, he was in charge of the Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir from 1973 to 1985. 

From 1985 until his retirement in 2012 he was Cathedral Kapellmeister at Mainz Cathedral. During this time he founded the Domkantorei Sankt Martin (1987) and the girls' choir at Mainz Cathedral (1995).

Since autumn 2012 Mathias Breitschaft has been active as voice coach of the Kiedricher Chorbuben.

In 2019 Breitschaft was awarded the "Prize of the State Music Council of Rhineland-Palatinate for Services to Music Culture" by the State Music Council of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Choir conductor, composer and pianist with #Scandinavia as main region

Artistic director and founder of the Opera di Setra

Conductor of the Chamber Choir Aurum and the Choir of "Opera Trøndelag

Member of the Norwegian Composers' Association

Hansruedi Kämpfen studied solo singing, choral conducting and orchestra direction at the Conservatory of Berne, later musicology and education at the University of Berne. He graduated as a secondary school teacher at the Lucerne Academy of Music. Various master classes abroad complemented his training.

For many years he has been the leader of the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble, the Oberwalliser Lehrerchor and the Oberwalliser Singschule. In 1992 he was the first Valaisian to be appointed music director of the city of Brig (church choir and male choir Brig).

Hansruedi Kämpfen is a music consultant at the Education Department of the Canton of Valais and teaches solo singing and choral conducting at the General Music School of Upper Valais. For many years his work as a lecturer at choir conducting courses and singing weeks and as a juror has taken him to most European countries and Asia.

As a guest conductor he has conducted the chamber orchestra La Follia Mulhouse, the Ensemble Instrumental du Valais, the Orchestra Sinfonica Novara, the Nouvelle Orchestre de Bruxelles, the Symphony Orchestra Miscolz (H) and the Orchestra of the International Music Academy of Sarospatak (U). In 1997 Hansruedi Kämpfen was elected to the international board of Europa Cantat.

He acted as its vice president and chairman of the music commission.
As President of Europa Cantat Switzerland and the Music Commission of the Swiss Choral Association, he shaped the Swiss choral scene for over 12 years.

With the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble he became a prize winner at various national and international competitions. In 2002 Hansruedi Kämpfen received the VALIANT Prize of the Murten Classic Festival with the Swiss Youth Choir, which he co-founded. With the Swiss Youth Choir he was awarded the first major choir prize of the Lamprecht-Steiger Foundation in 2008.

In 2011 he was awarded the Lily Waeckerlin Prize for Youth & Music of the Accentus Foundation for the Singschule Oberwallis. This year he was awarded the label VS2015 by the canton of Valais for his project "13 constellations from the Valais".

Bass in the renowned ensemble amarcord

He is Vice-Chairman of the Upper Austrian Choir Association and artistic director of the Upper Austrian Regional Youth Choir.

Fascinated by the pure, harmonious beauty of the human voice, Alexander Koller lives and works as a choirmaster, singer and teacher of vocal music.

He is, among other things, director of the Hard Choir (Linz) and the Linz Singakademie and himself a passionate singer and soloist in the "Company of Music" and the "Chamber Choir of Europe".

Bass in the renowned ensemble amarcord

We are pleased that Kersten Lachmann will strengthen the international jury at the Deutsche Chormeisterschaft 2020. 

Since 1984 he has been teaching music history, music theory (ear training, voice training and choral conducting) at the Pforta State School and since 2005 at the HfM "Franz Liszt" Weimar Ensemble Conducting. 

With the youth choir of the Pforta State School and the chamber choir Florilegium Portense he won a number of national and international prizes.

Tenor in the renowned ensemble amarcord

Choir and Orchestra Conductor

former choirmaster at the Royal Opera in Denmark

Artistic Director of the Copenhagen Concert Society

Internationally sought-after juror, conductor and workshop leader

Chief conductor of the Baltic student song festival "Gaudeamus" and the Latvian Song and Dance Festival 2013.

Vice-Rector of the Academy for Teacher Training and Education Management Riga.

Professor for music education.

Expert in the Latvian Scientific Panel.

Professor of choral conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Artistic director of the boys' and men's choir "Azuoliukas

President of the Lithuanian Choir Union

Internationally sought-after juror, conductor, composer and guest lecturer

Baritone in the renowned ensemble amarcord

Graduate of the Royals School of Music (hons)

Studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and wrote numerous works, including opera, ballet, musical theatre, choral works, orchestral and chamber compositions, as well as music for film and television.

appreciates music of other cultures and religions, whose aspects she always incorporates into her compositions.

Tenor in the renowned ensemble amarcord

Freelance conductor, composer and music educator from Berlin, specializing in choral conducting and orchestral conducting

In 2003 she was awarded the Conductor's Prize of the Johannes Brahms Choir Competition in Wernigerode and in 2008 the 1st Prize at the Composition Competition of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.

Since 1998 she has been director of the Berliner Mädchenchor, Berlin's oldest and largest choir school for girls and women, with which she has won several first prizes at national and international competitions in recent years.

Sabine Wüsthoff regularly passes on her experience in advanced training courses focusing on bodywork with conductors and creative rehearsal methods.