Ralf Eisenbeiß wurde 1952 in Zeulenroda geboren. Nach dem Abitur studierte er an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zwickau Pädagogik, Germanistik und Musikerziehung. Er promovierte 1979 zum Dr. phil. Von 1978-1981 studierte er an der Musikhochschule “Franz Liszt” in Weimar Chor- und Orchesterdirigieren.

Als Inhaber des Lehrstuhles Chorleitung und Chorgesang an der Pädagogischen Hochschule in Zwickau wurde Ralf Eisenbeiß 1987 zum Professor berufen. Er war Leiter des Chores dieser Einrichtung, der im In- und Ausland bekannt war und bei nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerben zahlreiche Preise gewann. Neben einem umfangreichen Repertoire an a cappella-Literatur verschiedenster Jahrhunderte standen auch chorsinfonische Werke auf dem Programm.

Ralf Eisenbeiß war Dozent beim Zentralen Chorleiterseminar in Berlin und leitete selbst zahlreiche Seminare. Er ist häufig Gastdirigent im In- und Ausland. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist er künstlerischer Direktor für INTERKULTUR. Er gründete den Int. Robert-Schumann-Chorwettbewerb in Zwickau und ist Mitbegründer der World Choir Games. Bisher war er künstlerisch in der Verantwortung für etwa 100 internationale Wettbewerbe in Deutschland, Italien, Korea, Indonesien, China, Österreich, Spanien, den USA und anderen Ländern. Ralf Eisenbeiß wurde sehr oft als Juror von nationalen und internationalen Chorwettbewerben in der ganzen Welt.

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

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 received her master degree in choral conducting and music education at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and Malmo Academy of Music (Sweden).

She is head of conducting subject in Vietnam National Academy of music and a member of the International Society for Music Education. She is the World Choir Council representative of Vietnam.

Dang Chau Anh has worked 20 years as chorus master, artistic director and conductor for children choirs, choir of vocal faculty, musicology- composing- conducting faculty of Vietnam National Academy of music, Vietnam SolArt and Hanoi International School. She is known as a pioneer in the field of choir and music education in Vietnam.

Together with the Vietnam SolArt Choir she attended many events and festivals of Vietnam television as well as in the role of an artistic director, she led the choir to many titles in competition such as: Gold Medal, Audience Prize and Best Performance in International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival in Wernigerode, Germany.For several years she was guest conductor in Children of the World in Harmony and The Voices Without Border in Petoskey, USA.

She is a frequent juror at choir competitions, such as the Vietnam International Choir Competition, in the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Spain among others. Dang Chau Anh is also well-known by Vietnam Television audience as M.C, Music expert, Jury of many music programs and 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.

Her artistic activity has led her to work in the main Italian theatres and abroad, collaborating with renowned personalities such as Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Oren, Yu Feng, Hirofumi Yoshida, and taking part in more than 250 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 specialised in children's vocality and is official conductor of the children's choir of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. From 1996 to 2022 he has prepared and conducted the children's voices of the "S. Cecilia" Chapel and Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and from 2010 to 2016 the children's voices and youth choir of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. Director of the musicological magazine "Codice 602" (ed. Sillabe), she is often invited to be part of jury panels in national and international choral competitions and has numerous publications and participations as lecturer at conferences and conventions to her credit.

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.