As a singer/arranger in several (inter)national choirs and with his vocal pop band Voice Male, Jo Annemans has built up lots of experience with innumerable conductors and artists. Today he likes to pass this on to likeminded people with a contagious enthusiasm and a good eye for the right atmosphere as well as high quality.

Under his leadership singing groups improve performance and have a great singing experience. Besides that, he’s a singing coach, much welcomed guest in all kinds of choral events, and appreciated panel member for competitions and contests in Belgium and abroad.

Dang Chau Anh is the Head of the Conducting Section at the Vietnam National Academy of music.

She is the member of the World Choir Council representative of Vietnam.

Dang Chau Anh received her Masters degree in Choral Conducting and Music education from the Vietnam National Academy of Music and Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden.

She has over 20 years working as a Chorus master and Choir Conductor and is a well-known pioneer in the field of choir and music education in Vietnam.

Dang Chau Anh lead the Vietnam SolArt Choir to Gold Medals, Public Prizes, Special Prizes in the 7th and 8th International Johannes Brahms Choir Competition in Wernigerode (Germany) and the 3rd Vietnam International Choir Competition.

In several years, she was Guest Conductor in Children of the World in Harmony and Voices Without Border in Petoskey (USA).

She is a frequently invited juror for international Choir Competitions from INTERKULTUR and other international organizers in Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia among others.

Dang Chau Anh is also well-known as host, music expert, juror of many music competitions on Vietnam Broadcasting System over the whole country.

Bernhard Kugler has been the Director and Principal Conductor of the Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw since 2008. The renowned boys choir cultivates sacred and secular choir music with a variety of tasks and orchestration. For their choral performances, the Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw have received numerous awards such as the 1st prize at the German Choir Competition. In addition to their choral performances, the Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw have also made a name for themselves in the field of boy soloists. The soloists regularly sing the trio in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Magic Flute" at major opera houses in Germany and abroad.

After studying medicine in Ulm and Tübingen Bernhard Kugler studied music at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. Further studies and hospitations with renowned choirs and orchestral conductors complemented his education. He first worked as a Cantor at St. John's Church in Tübingen and from 1999-2007 as Cathedral Cantor with artistic direction of the Domsingknaben in Rottenburg am Neckar.

Since 1999, Bernhard Kugler has been teaching organ improvisation and choral conducting at the College of Sacred Music in Rottenburg. He is a juror at international choir competitions and edits and arranges choral, orchestral and organ music.

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. With her choruses she has performed at premier theatres in Italy and abroad, collaborating with renowned personalities such as Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Oren, Yu Feng, Hirofumi Yoshida, and participating in over 200 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 the preparer of the Children’s Choir at the Opera Theatre of Florence and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and since 1996 she has conducted the Children’s Choir of the Opera Theatre and “Santa Cecilia” Chapel of the Cathedral of Lucca, with an active concert schedule. From 2010 to 2016 she has also been choral conductor at “Puccini Festival” of Torre del Lago. She is often invited to be part of the jury of national and international choral competitions. Director of musicology periodical «Codice 602», she had also several books published and has been lecturer for many music conferences and conventions.

Josep Prats was born in Barcelona in 1953. He studied singing, musicology, harmony, counterpoint, fugue... at Badalona and Barcelona conservatories, and conducting with A. Ros Marbà. He has been pupile in choral conducting of Jordi Casas, Erwin List, Laszlo Heltay, Pierre Cao and others.

He has been chairman of the Catalan Federation of Choirs’s Music Committee (FCEC), and member of the Europa Cantat Permanent Music Committee. He has taught Choral Singing and Chamber Music in the ‘Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu’ and ‘Institut del Teatre’. At present he is conducting Coral Cantiga (Barcelona), Cor Ciutat de Tarragona (Tarragona) and he is director of children music program called ‘Cantània’ produced by ‘Auditori Nacional de Catalunya’. He has been Guest Conductor of the Spanish Radio and Television Choir (RTVE); very often he conducts everywhere different profesional and amateur choirs as a guest.

He has been invited to conduct by different national and international choir festivals, he is often asked to be jury member of different international choir competitions and regularly gives choral conducting courses in Spain, Portugal, France and South America.

Ralf Eisenbeiß was born in 1952 in Zeulenroda. After his secondary school examination he studied pedagogy, German philology and musical education. He received his PhD in 1979 at the Pedagogical University of Zwickau. From 1978 to 1981, he studied choir and orchestra conducting at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar.

Ralf Eisenbeiß was working as the director of the choral department at the Pedagogical University in Zwickau and appointed professor for choir conducting and choral singing in 1987. He was conductor of the renowned Pedagogical University Zwickau Choir. With his choir he performed a wide repertoire of compositions for a cappella choirs and with orchestra, too. Under his direction the choir won numerous prizes at national and international choir competitions.

Ralf Eisenbeiß was lecturer at the central seminar for choral conductors in Berlin and organized numerous workshops himself. He often appears as guest conductor at home and abroad. Since more than 20 years he works as artistic director of INTERKULTUR. Ralf Eisenbeiß is founder of the Int. Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau and one of the founders of the World Choir Games. Since 1992 he was responsible for about hundred international competitions of INTERKULTUR in Germany, Italy, Korea, Indonesia, China, Austria, Spain, USA and other countries. Ralf Eisenbeiß is very often invited as a juror in national and other international choir competitions all over the world.

conductor, pianist, adjudicator

• licenciate of the Royal Schools of Music in Choral Conducting
• pianist and pedagogue
• founder and director of the children's choir "Cor Vivaldi of Barcelona"
• national and international adjudicator in Tours, Cantonigròs, Linz, Calella, Torrevieja and others
• has commissioned and premiered several new works dedicated to him and his choir