Mia Makaroff is a Finnish composer, arranger, music educator, and choral conductor. A graduate of the Sibelius Academy, she has worked extensively with choirs and schools, creating and leading a wide range of musical projects. She currently conducts several successful choirs, including the Vivace choirs in Vantaa, and the Ocarina choirs and Hinthaaran Kyläkuoro in the Porvoo region. Her compositions have been performed worldwide by renowned groups such as Rajaton, The King’s Singers, and Cantus.

Mia has taken part in international initiatives like Song Bridge, and composed larger works such as the musical Kruunulapset (Crown Children) and the choral mass Diligam Te. She has also led composition masterclasses for children’s choirs across Europe, and regularly serves as a juror and lecturer at choral festivals. Passionate about creativity and connection, she is currently developing MunKuoro/MinKör—a Finnish network of inclusive, non-auditioned youth choirs.

Primož Kerštanj studied at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana. After his studies he studied with renowned choir conductors in France, Spain and Hungary. He devoted himself to teaching and conducting choirs. He is currently the director of the Willems DOREMI Music Center in Bled, where he teaches solfeggio and piano and leads the children's and youth choir and the vocal group DOREMI. Primož Kerštanj specializes in working with children with special needs and children with autism spectrum disorders. During his career, he led several choirs: Milko Škoberne Women's Choir in Jesenice, Vox Carniolus in Jesenice, and from 2000 to 2010 the France Prešeren Academic Choir in Kranj. From 2006 to 2014, he led the Girls' Choir of the Kranj High School and brought it to a high quality level (15 gold and 4 silver diplomas).

Primož Kerštanj was awarded the best conductor award at the competitions in Riva del Garda in 2007 and in Calella/Barcelona in 2013. The Carmen Manet Women's Choir is one of three choirs that Primož Kerštanj leads today. The choir's most important achievement is winning the Grand Prix at the 50th Montreux Choir Festival in April 2014 and the gold plaque at the Slovenian National Competition in Maribor in April 2016. In 2017, Carmen Manet became the "Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017", which was broadcast on TV in 12 European countries. The choir's most recent major success was winning the Grand Prix at the Lucca international choral competition in 2023. Primož Kerštanj is also an internationally recognized lecturer at workshops for young choir conductors and a member of juries at national and international competitions.

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.