Mia Makaroff is a composer, arranger, music teacher and a choral conductor. In 2003, she graduated from the Sibelius Academy as a Master of Music in Music Education studies. Her work experience includes teaching music in schools, working with choirs, composing, creating and conducting different music projects.

Many well-known song groups and choirs have brought Mia Makaroff's music to a wider audience, such as Rajaton, King's Singers, Cantus, Amarcord and others. She has been involved in many national and international projects, such as "Song Bridge", bilingual musical "Crown Children", the mass "Diligam Te" and "The New Carmina". Further she has held master classes of composing for children choirs in Belgium, Italy and Russia. Mia Makaroff has also worked as a juror and a lecturer in choir competitions and festivals, for example in the 10th World Choral Games in Tshwane in South Africa. Her favorite themes are creativity, rhythmics and enhancing communication. Also theatre music is one big interest of hers.

Primož Kerštanj graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Ljubljana and has studied at Ljubljana University, Academy of Music. His current professional position is teaching piano and solfeggio at Willems Music Center DO RE MI Bled, where he also conducts the children‘s choir DO RE MI and the vocal group DO RE MI. Kerštanj is specialized in working with children with special needs and children with autistic spectrum disorder.

He has conducted several choirs in his career: Milko Škoberne female choir Jesenice, Vox Carniolus and from 2000 to 2010 Akademski pevski zbor France Prešeren Kranj. He has been directing Dekliški pevski zbor Gimnazije Kranj from 2006 to 2014 and has brought it to a high quality level.

Primož Kerštanj was awarded as best conductor in the competitions in Riva del Garda in 2007 and in Calella/Barcelona in 2013.

The female choir Carmen manet is one of the three choirs Primož Kerštanj conducts nowadays. Most important achievements of the choir was winning the Grand Prix at 50th Montreux Choral Festival in April 2014 and a gold plaque in the Slovenian national competition in Maribor in April 2016. 2017 Carmen manet became "Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017" which was broadcasted on TV in 12 European countries.

Primož Kerštanj is further an internationally sought-after composer, arranger and juror.

Pedro Teixeira is one of Portugal’s foremost choral conductors. Between 2012 and 2018 he was the director of “Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid”, and since 2022 he has been the adjacent conductor of “Coro Casa da Música” in Porto, Portugal.

Born in Lisbon, he attained a Masters degree in Choral Conducting at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, and has become widely known in the choral world for his insightful and sensitive performances. Since its inception in 2001, Pedro Teixeira conducts “Officium Ensemble”, an ensemble dedicated to the interpretation of renaissance Portuguese polyphony. He has performed widely with Officium Ensemble in prestigious early music festivals such as “Oude Muziek” (Utrecht) or “Laus Polyphoniæ” (Antwerp). Pedro Teixeira is also dedicated to contemporary music and, as the Director of “Coro Ricercare” since 2001, conducts several world premieres per season.

For 24 years he has been the Artistic Director of the international workshop “Evora Cathedral Music School”. Besides being a teacher at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, he also leads several masterclasses and summer schools, and is invited regularly to adjudicate in several international choir competitions.

Since 2018, Pedro Teixeira has conducted the “Gulbenkian Choir” in several occasions and venues as guest conductor. Moreover, Pedro Teixeira has prepared choirs in collaboration with conductors such as John Nelson, Enrico Onofri, Lorenzo Viotti, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen.