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.

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.

Born in Igualada (Barcelona), Daniel Mestre is one of the leading young Catalan conductors who works regulary with some of the most important choirs and orchestras of his country. He studied at the prestigious Escolania de Montserrat, the Barcelona Conservatory and he got his Degree on Conducting with distinction at the Vienna Conservatory.

He has been Chorus Master at Cape Town Opera (South Africa), Assistant Conductor at the Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, conductor of the Coro de la Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Coral Càrmina and he teaches at the Liceu Conservatory and Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), where he conducts their Opera Atelier, Chamber Choir and Orchestra. He has been invited at international festivals like the Europa Cantat Festival in Pécs (H) and Torino (I) or in Argentina and China. He has recorded several CDs and for the Austrian, South African, Spanish and Catalan Broadcasting.

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

He was born in Pineda de Mar (Barcelona) and he began his singing studies at the Conservatori del Liceu with Cecilia Fontdevila and Enriqueta Tarrés, where he graduated with top grades and received an honourable mention. He has been awarded in several singing competitions, like the International Competition XVI for singers Francesco Cilea of Reggio di Calabria and the Young Musicians Festival VI in Catalonia. He has been awarded by the Jaume Aragall Foundation with a scholarship. He has also attended to master classes given by Montserrat Caballé and other opera singers. His repertoire includes operas like La Bohème, La Traviata, Tosca and many others; lieder and zarzuela, as well as oratorios and cantatas. He has performed in theatres around Europe and Central America, including the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

He is a pupil of maestro Salvador Brotons at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. In 1998 he started giving singing lessons at the music academy Centre Musical Can Salom, where he became director in 2002. He is the director of Cor i Orquestra Simfònica Harmonia and the artistic director of the Temporada Lírica Ciutat de Calella.