Peter Habermann received his first musical education as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor. This was followed by a course of Vocal Studies in Dresden which he passed with a First Class Honours degree to be a singing teacher. Since 1984, he has been teaching at the Landesgymnasium für Musik Wernigerode. His scope of work covers both the field of vocal training and the choral education of this institution’s students.

For many years, he acted as a Deputy Artistic Director of the Rundfunkjugendchor Wernigerode with Friedrich Krell. Later, he led the institution’s Children Choir with great success before he became Artistic Director of the Rundfunkjugendchor in 1996, a responsibility that he held until 2004 and has been holding again from 2008 until today.

His work with this internationally renowned ensemble has been rewarded with numerous prizes, and has resulted in many CD recordings as well as concert tours both at home and abroad.

In 2003, he founded the Wernigerode Chamber Choir, a project choir comprising former Rundfunkjugendchor members which he led until 2010. He is also committed to amateur music: for 10 years, he conducted the men’s choir of the village Drübeck. Peter Habermann is an active singer, speaker and juror for INTERKULTUR events and the German Choral Contest.

Since 1998, Mārtiņš Klišāns, works as art director of the Rīga Cathedral Boys’ Choir. Under his guidance, the choir has been granted the Latvian Grand Music Award - the highest State award in music and Latvian Music Recording Award.

Klišāns has graduated from the conducting class at the Jāzeps Vītols’ Latvian Music Academy (tutored by Imants Kokars). He got his Master’s degree in 2009. His vocal skills were improved at Bach Academy (Stuttgart, Bruce Abel). As a vocalist, Klišāns has contributed to the chamber choir Ave Sol and Rīga Vocal Group. As a tenor solo performer, he has participated in more than one hundred performances of the Baroque operas and oratories.

Klišāns still teaches at the Rīga Cathedral Choir School and at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. In July, 2004, he was a guest conductor at the Americafest: the world festival for boys’ and men’s choir singing. He’s a member of the council of the World Choir Games and of the INTERKULTUR association, and has been a part of international juries lately. He is the conductor of the amateur choirs Juventus and Beverīna and also conducts the mixed choir Vaidelote, the mixed choir Valmiera, and is chief conductor of Cēsis district. Klišāns has also been elected chief conductor of the Great Song Festival 2008, 2013 and 2018 as well; he was also among the chief conductors of the IX and X Latvian Youth Song and Dance Festivals. Annually he is invited to the different choral competitions as a jury member. In 2015 Mārtiņš Klišāns got the highest State award – The Order of Three Stars.

Tove Ramlo-Ystad is educated as a singer and conductor with a Master Degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

Her teachers and mentors in conducting have been Stefan Sköld, Anders Eby and Mogens Dahl.

Tove Ramlo-Ystad is one of Norway’s most acknowledged choir conductors. She is a very popular and inspiring guest conductor and she is frequently used as an adjudicator in international choir competitions.

She has conducted the female choir "Cantus" since their beginning in 1986. "Cantus" has received a lot of attention, won several competitions and is known by their Nordic sound. This sound was the reason Disney discovered "Cantus", and led to the choir being preferred to sing in their animation movie 'Frozen'.

Earlier she has been the conductor of both mixed and male ensembles. Now her experience is much used as a mentor for younger conductors.

Tove Ramlo-Ystad is working for the Norwegian Choral Association as a music director, where developing education systems for conductors in Norway is one of the main issues.

Mikhail Golikov is an artistic director and chief conductor of Taurida State Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad oblast, laureate of International and Russian competitions, an artistic director and principal conductor of the Orchestra of Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic for Children and Youth. He constantly cooperates with the Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg State Philarmonia, a chief invitee conductor of Irkutsk State Philarmonia.

In the end of 2013 Mikhail Golikov was awarded of the title of People’s Artist of The Kabardino-Balkar Republic for the big cultural project «The Symphony of Caucasia».

He organizes various educational programs and master classes in Russia and abroad, actively promotes the popularization of classical music among children and youth audiences. He is the creator and artistic director of the Russian-Ukrainian Orchestra in Germany.

Aira Birziņa has been the conductor of the Riga Cathedral Girls’ Choir TIARA since 2000. She is one of the most outstanding conductors in Latvia who works mostly with female choirs and teaches the choir conducting at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She has been the principal conductor of the famous Latvian female choirs DZINTARS (Riga) and RASA (Ogre) for many years.

Aira Birziņa is also one of the conductors of the Latvian Song and Dance Festival (XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI). She leads various workshops, participates in conferences, and works as a jury member at the international competitions in Latvia and abroad. She was awarded with the Acknowledgement of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia in 2018, the Order of the Three Stars and the Culture Prize “White Sparrow” of the Riga Municipality in 2015, the Annual Culture Prize of City of Ogre in 2018 and 2017, and the Ministry of Culture’s Prize in Folk Art in 1999.

Marleen De Boo got a taste for choral music early on as a member of Waelrant Youthchoir.

After her music studies at the “Lemmens Institute” in Leuven, where she obtained Master degrees both in Music Pedagogy and Choral Conducting, she became artistic leader of this choir.

Under her leadership the VZW Waelrantkoren expanded to a non-profit organisation of 7 choirs; 3 children’s choirs, 2 youth choirs and 2 adult choirs with in total more then 250 singers. She conducts 4 of the 7 choirs herself.

At the Academy of Music, Word and Dance in Lier, Marleen teaches solfège, choir and various group singing classes, both for young people and adults. In addition, she teaches at this academy 3 different classes for choral conducting, one class for amateur conductors, one for professionals and a third for conductors of children’s choirs and primary school teachers.

At the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp she teaches within the academic postgraduate course “Children- and Youth choir Conducting”.