Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, as a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and as a member of the King’s Singers. He became a full-time composer and conductor in 1997, and has composed a large catalogue of choral music which is published by Oxford University Press. His most often performed pieces include Can you hear me?, A Little Jazz Mass, Requiem, and the St John Passion.
Bob has directed choirs in more than 30 countries worldwide and conducts many thousands of amateur singers in a continuing series of Singing Days. Since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and since 2019 Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers.
His music has been widely recorded by leading British choirs and groups including The King’s Singers, King’s College, Cambridge, Wells Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, Commotio, and Ora. Circlesong, recorded by the Houston chamber Choir and Treble Choir of Houston, was released by Signum in January 2022, and his second disc with NFM Wroclaw, Canticles of Light, in January 2023. November 2023 has seen the release of Christmas Oratorio recorded by The Choir of Merton College, Oxford on Delphian and Mary, Mother by St Martin’s Voices on Resonus.

Birgitte has a degree in Musicology, English and French from the University of Aarhus and was a music teacher until 2021 when she decided to work full time as a conductor.
Her musical profile is characterized by an equal respect and interest in both classical, contemporary, popular and folk music which can be seen in the very diverse repertoire of the different choirs who collaborate with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, folk music groups as well as some of the most popular artists in Denmark.
Birgitte has founded the choir EVE (gold medal winners in ECG in 2017 and 2019 and finalist in Denmark’s Got Talent in 2018) that merged with the older singers of Aarhus Pigekor to become SORA, in august 2023.
From 2017-2021 she worked with the youth talent program at the National Opera of Denmark as a choirmaster and conductor of productions. Currently, she is the conductor of the choirs SORA, Aarhus Pigekor and Aarhus Juniorkor, which all belong zo the Aarhus Musikskole.
In 2023-2024 Birgitte was one of the atelier leaders at Europa Cantat Junior, Eurotreff and Norbusang and a jury member at The European Music Festival for Young People in Neerpelt.

Vladimir Opačić, founder and conductor of the Serbian choral ensemble "SERBICA", serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts. His career highlights (1999-2024)are: 20 first-place and special prizes, 2 Grand Prix awards, and the prestigious "Outstanding Choir" accolade at various choral competitions both domestically and internationally; numerous honors for pedagogical and artistic excellence, including the "Outstanding Choral Teacher" award at the World Choir Festival in Hong Kong, China, and the esteemed "November Award" from the City of Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. Opačić significantly contributes to the international choral community as an honorary member of the World Choral Council and as a highly sought-after international juror, guest choral conductor, and lecturer at events such as: the 13th China ICF in Beijing; KUESTA University choir festival in South Africa; World Choir Games in South Korea; Music and Sea ICF in Greece; Sarawak International Choral Festival and Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod (YCA) in Malaysia. With a rich background as a singer in the World Youth Choir, World Chamber Choir, and World Voices (1999-2009), as well as a production/project manager for the "Vox Luminis" early music ensemble (2016-2017) and the World Youth Choir (2004-2015), Vladimir continues to inspire and elevate the world of choral music through his leadership, artistry, and unwavering commitment to excellence.

Salome Rebello is a conductor, pianist, singer, educator, and arranger. Born and raised in Mumbai India, she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Piano and Choral Conducting from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel. She served as the conductor of numerous choirs, including the Jerusalem Oratorio Choir (Israel's largest choral organization) and the Singing Tree Choir Mumbai. During her time in Israel and India, Salome actively used choral singing as a tool for intercultural coexistence work and social engagement. A passionate educator, she has been involved in education for 20 years as a teacher, trainer and workshop leader including with the Israeli Ministry of Education. Recently Salome Rebello has been appointed as conductor of the award-winning ‘Ulmer Spatzen Chor’ and as head of the Singing department at the Ulm Music School, Germany. Beyond education, Salome Rebello has a keen interest in innovative performance-art.  Her last creation ‘Lullaby, Stranger’ was an immersive choral-concert and showcased in Mumbai from 2018 -2020. She presented on it at the World Choral Expo (2022) and the World Symposium for Choral Music (2023). Salome Rebello additionally holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from St. Xavier’s College Mumbai.

Born in Basel, Oliver Rudin started his musical career early at the "Knabenkantorei Basel" (Basel Boys' Choir), as a longterm private student of Rudolf Barshai and began his violin bachelor studies at Basel Academy of Music at the age of 14. Afterwards, he obtained masters degrees in school music II, choir conductorship and arts management at the University of Basel and completed several master classes at the Juilliard School for Music in New York.
He is also firmly anchored in Basel thanks to his more than 20 years of teaching at the Gymnasium Kirschgarten, as guest lecturer in several universities in Switzerland and as an artistic board member of the "European Youth Choir Festival".
As the conductor of the choirs "Knabenkantorei Basel", "Gospelchor am Münster" and "Männerstimmen Basel", and with his a cappella band "The Glue", he has performed on four continents over the past 10 years. He has conducted orchestras such as the Ukrainian National Orchestra in the Philharmony Kiev and the Sinfonieorchester Basel, sung with & for tribal chiefs in Africa, assumed musical direction of productions at the Theater Basel, was awarded the cultural prize in his home region, led workshops and master classes, and garnered awards at 17 international festivals and competitions. These include titles such "Winner of the Grand Prix of Nations" in Norrköping, Sweden (2023), "Champion of the World Choir Games" in Cincinnati, USA (2012), as well as the "Grand Prix" and "First Prize" in Preveza, Greece (2022). He also achieved distinctions like "Best Youth Choir" and "Best Performance" in Cornwall, UK (2022) and further acknowledgements.
Numerous world premieres and commissioned works were created under his direction and testify to his curiosity for new music and forms of expression. In recent years, he has worked with Ivo Antognini, James Clark, Gion-Antoni Derungs, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Klaus Lang and Eric Whitacre, among others.

Simon Voigtländer has been passionate about singing together since his earliest childhood in the Ore Mountains. He founded his first choirs at the age of 16 and gained his first experience as a choirmaster. After studying and postgraduate studies in church music (Dresden University of Church Music), school music (Chemnitz University of Technology) and vocal pedagogy ("musa-vocalis-Studio" Wiesbaden), he served as a cantor and worked as a consultant for youth and popular music in the church district of Annaberg, He has been working as a teacher, vocal coach and choir director at the Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium Zwickau since 2015, as well as leading the "Gospelresounds", the "Jubilatechores" Dresden and the vocal ensembles "Stilfalt" and "Claras Erben". He has been working as a teacher, voice coach and choir director at the Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium Zwickau since 2015. With the school's youth choir, he won 2nd prize in the mixed choir category at the international choir competition in Verona in 2024. He also performs regularly as a choral conductor and concert soloist in classical, crossover and popular music (with the Kapellsolisten Dresden, the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, the Clara Schumann Philharmonic and the Vogtlandphilharmonie Greiz-Reichenbach), as a duo partner (with the trumpeter Matthias Schmutzler, the clarinettist Bernhard Knobloch and the soprano Thora Müller), as an ensemble member (Muggefugg Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Varioso, Band Sunny Skamino) and as a workshop leader.