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 almost 30 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 more than 150 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.

Friedrich Lessky was born in 1934. After high school he got a degree in musical pedagogy, choir conducting and organ at the Vienna Academy for Music and Figurative Arts, as well as in history and musicology at Vienna University. From 1964 to 2000, he was professor and later director of the music school Wiener Musikgymnasium and assistant teacher at the department of music and figurative arts at the Vienna University. In 1957 with a students’ choir from Vienna, he won a first prize at the international choir competition in Arezzo. Friedrich Lessky founded in 1968 the Chamber Choir of the Vienna Music School (today: Friedrich-Lessky-Choir). With this choir he has obtained outstanding placings in many international competitions and has made more than 40 concert tours travelling to almost all European countries as well as to North and South America. For ten years he has been artistic director of the well known Wiener Singakademie. His productions have been broadcasted in various radio and TV programmes as well as in other registrations. Friedrich Lessky is also founder and artistic director of the Viennese international choir competition "Franz Schubert", and he is vice president of the Schubert-Gesellschaft Wien-Lichtental. Friedrich Lessky is regularly invited to be a member of the juries at international choir competitions. Due to his activity in the field of choir music, Friedrich Lessky has been awarded important prizes, among others the medal of merit of the Austrian Republic Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich.

Eva Holm Foosnæs is a Norwegian conductor, composer and freelance-pianist. Her compositions are mostly focused on the human voice. She is educated from NTNU University of Trondheim, Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia, and Robert Schumann Hochschule für Musik. She is the artistic manager of the Opera di Setra, and Olsokspelet Tylldalspelet, choir master of Opera Trøndelag and she conducts the awarded chamber choir "Kammerkoret Aurum" which specializes in Scandinavian contemporary music. This choir has achieved seven gold medals in high-level competitions in three years along with two special prizes for the best performance of contemporary music. Eva Holm Foosnæs is also interested in vocal opera and musical theatre.

Georg Kugi received his first diploma as a flutist at the Klagenfurt Conservatory. Continuing his studies at the Vienna University of Music he finished his master in music education as weil as flute and piano. He studied conducting with Herwig Reiter and further attended master classes in orchestra and choral conducting with Erwin Ortner, Eric Ericson, Bruno Weil and Helmuth Rilling. From 1985 on Georg Kugi was music director of the Bretterhaus Theatre, Vienna, in 1997 of the Young Austrian Music Theatre (with Menotti's "Medium") and in 1998 he took part in a production of the Vienna Chamber Opera. Georg Kugi has been invited to a number of renowned music festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Austrian East-West Festival and musik aktuell, the Cervantes En Todas Partes Mexico and the Kookje International Opera Company Seoul.

Since the 2001/02 season Georg Kugi has been leading Opera in the Jeunesse Vienna Series as weil as the International Slovenian Jeunesse Orchestra. Since 2003 he holds the position of a principal conductor and artistic director of the International Danube Philharmonie. As a lang term member of the ensemble VIENNA FLAUTISTS Georg Kugi has experienced intensely in the field of chamber music, appearing all over the world and recording numerous CDs. Georg Kugi founded several vocal ensembles and holds a position as choral and orchestral conducter at the Vienna Musikgymnasium.

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.