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.

Fred Sjöberg, born 1953, is an educated singer and choral conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and Örebro. Among others he has studied with Prof. Solwig Grippe, Prof. Eric Ericson and Prof. Helmuth Rilling. He has been the first conductor to conduct the three major international youth choirs as World Youth Choir (1991 and 2005), World Chamber Choir (1993) and European Youth Choir (1999).

When the Swedish organization for young choirs “UngiKör” started he was elected as their first president. In 2000 he was appointed as the “Conductor of the Year” in Sweden by SCDA (Swedish Choral Directors Association) appointed with the Johannes Norrby Medallion for outstanding and 2001 service and development to the Swedish Choral Life. From 1997 to 2004 he was the Music Director and conductor of the project “Notes for Millions”.

From 2000 to 2004 he was also Music Director of the Swedish Choral Centre as well as Artistic Director for Lund International Choral Festival from 2005 to 2006. Since 2009 he is Music Director of Swedish International Choral Centre in Örebro. Fred Sjöberg has been Vice President of Europa Cantat as well as President of the Music Commission of Europa Cantat and has also been Vice President of IFCM.

He is Council Member of INTERKULTUR and also on the Artistic Directorium of INTERKULTUR.

From 2015 he is General Artistic Director of INTERKULTUR.

Kicki Rosén Bejstam is Artistic Director of Brunnsbo Music Classes in Gothenburg, Sweden, which often collaborates with the Concert Hall, Göteborg Wind Orcestra and the Gothenburg Opera. She is director of Brunnsbo Music Classes Girl’s Choir, and tours a lot around the world. She holds a MFA in Music Education from the Örebro University, and has a Master degree in choral conducting from the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. Rosén Bejstam is also a freelance singer and sings first soprano in Vocal Art Ensemble of Sweden. She is a former president of the youth choral association UNGiKÖR väst and a Swedish representative of INTERKULTUR.

Marit Zetterström is the Manager of Choir Center West in the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden. Choir Centre West is part of the cultural administration Kultur i Väst and their aim is to strengthen and develop the choir scene regionally. This is done by offering courses and consultations, initiating events, and spreading choir research.

Marit Zetterström is a conductor, producer, logonom/speech therapist, guest lecturer and former chair of the Swedish Choral Council. She is often chosen to produce national choral activities, projects, festivals and conferences. As a freelance conductor, consultant and inspirer she has been working all over Sweden. Marit Zetterström has been a teacher, conductor and speech therapist at the well-known education for Musical Artist at Balettakademien in Gothenburg. She was a member of the Academy of Amateur Culture in Sweden for a couple of years. She was also the Organizer of the national choral activities in Sensus study Association 2008-2016.

Marit Zetterström is a member of the local artistic committee planning the 4th European Choir Games in Gothenburg 2019.

• Graduated in organ, composition and choir conducting and specialized in paleography and musical philology
• Former director of the "RAI Chamber Choir" of Rome and recognized as one of the greatest interpreters of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire
• Professor of Musical Palaeography at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan
• In 2015 he was invited as individual member in the Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne (R.E.M.A.)
• Carries out an intense concert and recording activity at the helm of the "Collegium vocale et instrumentale Nova Ars Cantandi"
• Since December 2004 he is the official representative for Italy of the World Choir Council

• Past conductor and artistic director of the Tapiola choir and Vox Aurea choir, activities on all continents
• Music teacher, symphony orchestra-, folk- and jazz musician and conductor, juror
• Artistic director of festivals, chair of the IFCM Songbridge Artistic Committee
• Pro Finlandia Medal, the highest recognition for arts by the President of the Republic of Finland, the UNESCO Price1996 for Performing Arts / the Tapiola choir, subject of the doctoral thesis

• Conductor, music educator, church choir director, composer
• Founder, Artistic Director and Conductor of the vocal ensemble “Blagaya Vest” (Good Tidings) and of the “Moskovskiye kolokolchiki” (Moscow bells) Children's and Youth Choir since 1991
• Professor at Gnessin Moscow Children's School of Music
• Honored Worker of the Moscow Musical Society

• Christo Burger recently won 6 Gold medals at the World Choir Games, Tshwane 2018 with Akustika Chamber Singers (4), Akustika Male Choir (1) and Jacaranda Children's Choir (1).
• Akustika Chamber Singers was crowned the "Champion of the World Choir Games" in Tshwane for the Category: "Musica sacra a cappella".
• Akustika Chamber Singers was awarded a gold medal at the Grand Prix of Nations in Magdeburg, Germany.
• Akustika Chamber Singers won the Pavarotti trophy as well as the title “Choir of the World” at the annual Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod, Wales, UK, 2008.

• Teaches music composition and harmony at the Music Conservatory of Louvain (Belgium)
• Graduated as a composer and professional musician from the Royal Music Academy of Brussels and Lemmens Institute of Louvain
• Received several commissions for the “Belgian Radio Choir” and composed a great deal of compulsory pieces for national and international choir competitions
• Regularly invited as a jury member at national and international music competitions in Belgium, Italy, Slovakia and Croatia

• From 1972 to 1976 conductor of "Ederki Choir" in Valladolid
• Founder and conductor of "Eskifaia Abesbatza" (1978-1994), "Kanta Cantemus Korua" (1995-2007) and of "Aquam Lauda Korua" (2014)
• His choral works have been published in the Basque Country, France, Germany, Japan, the USA, the United Kingdom and Sweden
• Regularly invited as conductor and jury member to different Choral Festivals and Competitions worldwide

• Vice President of China Chorus Association and director of Mass Chorus Committee of
  Chinese Choral Association
• President of Guangdong Choral Association and President of Shenzhen Choral Society
• Founder and Director of Guangdong International Choral Pedagogic Education Project
• Directed many choirs, which have won champion titles in numerous choral contests, both home and abroad in recent years

• First prize winner of many international choir competitions 
• Repeated Prize Winner of the German Choir Competition
• Editor of „Reine Männersache“, „Reine Frauensache“ Edition Peters
• International Juror, lecturer and guest conductor
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Senior Lecturer at Malmö Academy of Music and Director at Southern Choral Centre, Lund University, Sweden.
• Former president of Swedish Choral Directors Association.
• International adjudicator and guest lecturer.
• Conductor The Malmö Academy of Music Womens Chorus and Christianstads Motet Choir.

• Founder and conductor of Aarhus Girls Choir, Champion of the World Choir Games and winner of  Let the Peoples sing (EBU)
• Conductor of the girls choir of the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, and Korvida with young female singers. Teacher at the Aarhus Music School
• Worked with several Danish composers as Per Nørgård and Søren Møller, collaborated with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Opera and the Dutch choireographer Panda van Proosdij
• International juror and lecturer

• Founder and director of the female choir Brunnsbokören, 1980-2009 and of Gothenburg Youth Choir, since 2005
• Founder and principal of Brunnsbo Music Classes, Gothenburg, 1985-2013
• Ass. Professor at the Department of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg
• President of UNGiKÖR, Children- &Youth Choir Association, 1989-1997 and of NORBUSAM, Org. for Nordic Children’s and Youth Choirs, 2002-2008
• received prominent awards e.g. as Royal Academy of Music prize, Children- & Youth choir Conductor, The Norrby-medal

• Founding conductor of "Ars Nova Vocal Ensemble", which is winner of sixteen first prizes and special prizes, seven times of "Grand Prix" at international competitions, two times the title of "Champion of the World Games" (Graz, Austria, Riga, Latvia)
• Founding Director of Ars Nova Edition Publishing House, which specializes in contemporary choral music
• Professor of conducting and musicianship at Kodály Institute of Liszt University of Music and Beijing Central Conservatory of Music
• Author of music theory books, the latest is 'A Practical Approach to Harmony I, II'
• Lecturer at workshops, seminars, symposia all over the world
• Often serves as juror at international choir competitions
• Member of the World Choir Council

• Music Director of Chamber Choir Klangfarben Gießen (Germany) and Choir Vozes do Brasil (Cologne-Germany).
• Choral conductor of Joy of Life of Kurhessian Kantorei Marburg (Germany).
• Workshops “World music and choir” in Germany, Spain, USA and Brazil.
• Composer at Bärenreiter Verlag (Germany) and Helbling Edition (Austria.

• Studied at the Hochschule für Musik SAAR, where he acquired a degree in piano teaching and postgraduate degrees in piano performance, choral conducting and orchestral conducting
• Was the first conductor of the award ­winning "Madrigalchor Dillingen" and a scholar of the Richard Wagner Foundation
• Artistic Director of the "Trikala Youth Symphony Orchestra" and conductor of the female vocal ensemble "InDONNAtión", with which he holds 4 gold awards in four successive competitions organized by INTERKULTUR
• Holds the first Doctoral degree awarded in Greece in performance of choral conducting (OMA)
• Assistant Professor at the Music Department of the Ionian University in Corfu, conductor of the choir, the vocal ensemble and teaching the mixed choir conducting class

• Composer, innovative Choral Conductor and Guest Lecturer, appointed "Children And Youth Choirs Conductor of the Year in Sweden" 2017.
• Founder, Artistic Director and Choir Manager for Arctic Light Girls´Choir since 2004 (Appointed "Choir of the Year in Sweden" 2010).
• Board member of Swedish Choral Directors Association since 2014 and former Board member of UNGiKÖR, Swedish Children and Youth Choirs Association 2005-2010.

• Honored Cultural Worker of Ukraine (2009)
• Chief Choirmaster of Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth
• Member of Mykola Leontovych All-Ukrainian Choir Society of the National Music Union
• Member of National Union of Theatre Artists of Ukraine
• Choirmaster–Director of International Projects                                  
• Expert of the Theatre Award «Kyiv Pectoral»

• Founder and Artistic director of the Chamber Choir of Europe and the World Choir for Peace.
• Almost 100 CDs with recordings of highly demanding vocal and orchestral works.
• Active partnerships with world famous composers like Morten Lauridsen, Sir Karl Jenkins, John Rutter and Eric Whitacre.
• He is regularly invited to international choir competitions, festivals and universities, to teach during workshops and master-classes for conductors and singers around the globe.

• Choral composer and arranger; her music has been internationally sung by many well-known vocal groups and choirs such as Rajaton, King‘s Singers, Cantus
• Experienced music teacher, choral conductor and a grounder of the Vivace Choirs and Ocarina Choirs; actively co-operating with many choral theme projects
• Lecturer and teacher of composing master classes, clinician specially with rhythm and creativity in choirs Adjudicators

• Director of the Children's Chorus Committee of of China Chorus Association
• Vice President of the World Youth Chorus Artists Association
• Has served as the Artistic Director and full-time conductor of the prestigious China Youth Radio Choir for 37 years
• Played a leading role in the planning of China International Chorus Festival, the CCTV Youth Song Competition Chorus Competition and the China Children's Chorus Festival
• Founder of the "Deep Space Chorus" brand and "Deep Space Youth Choir"

• Head conductor of Riga and Jurmala Region choirs
• Artistic Director of the “International Baltic Sea Choir Competition” as well as conductor and artistic director of the Jāzeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Latvia Mixed Choir and mixed choirs “Maska” and “Pa Saulei”
• Member of the board of the Latvian Song Festival Foundation since 2018 and Member of the Latvian National Centre for Culture Council in sector of choirs
• Works often as jury member at international choir and singer competitions

• Nationally and internationally active as a jazz singer
• Professor of jazz singing in Vienna and Graz, Ltg. Of the Jazz Choir of Music and Art University of the City of Vienna
• Presenter at the Austrian Broadcasting / Jazz Office
• Juror at international choir competitions

• Vice Chairman of China Chorus Association and Chairman of China College and University Choir Committee
• Artistic Director and chief conductor of the awarding-winning „Peiyang Chorus“
• One of the representative figures of contemporary Chinese chorus art development, creating a unique “Peiyang chorus sound”
• Regularly gives lectures on Chinese traditional music in the USA and more than 30 areas of China
• Adjudicator at national and international choir competitions

• Artistic Director at INTERKULTUR, Germany.
• Teacher of Jazz piano and Choir at Yeongnam University in Daegu, South-Korea.
• Founder and conductor of the Daegu Jazz Singers in Daegu, South Korea.
• International adjudicator, clinician-, seminar- and workshop-leader.
• Former conductor and artistic director of student Vocal Jazz Group „Dekoor“ and the Student Symphonic Choir and Orchestra (USKO) of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• Former professor for Choral Conducting at the Conservatory of Alkmaar and Vocal Jazz at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
• Member of INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Conductor, producer, educator, founder/Artistic Director of Estonian Television Girl’s and Children’s Choir
• Artistic Director of European Film Awards TV-live Gala, HM Elizabeth II and their Majesties Japanese Emperor and Empress State Visit Concerts.
• Worked with Michael Jackson, world premieres and recordings of Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Urmas Sisask, Roxanna Panufnik /BBC, WDR, Danish Radio etc.
• Guidoneum Award of Arezzo Foundation, Order of White Star of the Republic of Estonia, Prize of the UNICEF National Committee, Musician of the Year by Estonian National Broadcast
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• President of the Armenian Choral Conductors’ Association
• Founder, Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tavush Diocese Children choir
• Conductor of the Yerevan K. Sarajyan music school children’s choir
• Guest conductor, lecturer Co-founder and director of the International choral projects, International jury member

• Conductor and stage director of projects with various companies, opera houses, choruses, and ensembles worldwide
• Composer and author-director
• Artistic director of Carmina Slovenica and Choregie – new music theatre
• University professor, lecturer, international adjudicator
• Recepient of Robert Edler Prize for her exceptional contribution to the world choir movement and more than 20 other highest international awards at choir competitions
• 2018-2019 fellow at Harvard University/Radcliffe institute for advanced study
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Former lecturer, Australian National University School of Music and 4 prestigious colleges. Jury member of 10 international music festivals.
• Founder/Artistic Director, North Coast Camerata, Coffs Youth Orchestra. Regular guest conductor in several countries.
• Winner of Symphony Australia Prize, National Orchestras of Australia Award and for conducting, composing and service to music in the community.
• Associate Composer, Australian Music Centre and member of the National Choral Association.
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Founder and Artistic Director of the acclaimed "St. Mary's Varsity Male Ensemble" and "International Show Choir" of Tokyo, Japan
• Music educator in choral movement and Co-Author, with Henry Leck, of "Creating Artistry: Movement and the Maturing Male Voice"
• Edits the "Randy and Rachel Choral Series" for Santa Barbara Music Publishing, the "Randy Stenson Male Choral Series" and "Randy Stenson International Choral Series" for Pavane Publishing
• Guest conductor, clinician-lecturer in over 30 countries
• International choral adjudicator for competitions all over the world

• Conductor, organist, lawyer, cultural scientist and cultural manager
• President of the Austrian Choir Association; Initiator and Coordinator of the project "CHOR:sinfonie" celebrating the 70-year anniversary 2019
• Founder and President (until 2018) of the Austrian National Youth Choir and conductor of different choirs, currently of the mixed choirs "Wiener Sängerrunde" and "Chorus of Administration" at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
• Jury chairman and jury member at international competitions for choir or organ
• Numerous concerts as organist or conductor in many European countries, in China, South Africa and Brazil
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Conductor and Head of the choir departement at the Stockholms Musikgymnasium/Kungsholmens Gymnasium
• Graduated with a Master in Fine Arts in Church music and a Postgraduate Diploma in Choral Conducting at the Royal University of Music
• Previous professor in choral conducting at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm and at varying courses in Sweden and abroad. Member of the Artistic Council of Statens Musikverk
• In 2017 she received the Choir conductor of the year prize in Sweden and was one of two conductors to lead the World Youth Choir 2018 during their summer session in Inner Mongolia and China

• Founder and Music Director of the internationally known Indonesian Children and Youth Choir "Cordana"
• Chairman of the National Foundation for the Development of Choral Music in Indonesia and Member of Advisory of the Foundation of Church Music – YAMUGER
• International and national juror and clinician
• Has travelled through the provinces in Indonesia training choirs and conductors
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Conductor and Artistic Director of SKOWRONKI Girls Choir, Poznań (Poland)
• First Prize Winner of many International Choir Competitions.
• International adjudicator, lecturer and leading workshops for conductors of children's and youth choirs
• Founder and director of the TRILLME FESTVAL, an International Girls’ Choir Festival, Poznań, Poland (2014, 2016, 2018)

• Professor of Composition at LUCA School of Arts, Lemmens campus, Leuven
• Conductor of the Ghent-based chamber choir "De 2de Adem" ("The Second Wind") specializing in contemporary choral music
• Three-time laureate of the European Award for Choral Composers
• Experience as pianist-accompanist and as bass singer in choirs like "Aquarius" and the "Flemish Radio Choir"
• Local Artistic Director of the World Choir Games 2021 in Flanders, Belgium

• Artistic Director of INTERKULTUR
• Professor of choral conducting study program at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music since 1987
• Chief conductor and Artistic Director of “Jāzeps Mediņš Rīga 1st Music School Boys’ Choir” and principal conductor of the Latvian University female choir named “Minjona” since 1990
• One of the chief conductors of the Latvian Nationwide Song Celebration (in 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2018)
• In 2008 received the highest civil decoration in Latvia – “The Order of the Three Stars”.
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Countertenor in The King’s Singers for 10 years, touring the world and singing over 1500 concerts in some of the world’s greatest venues.
• Taught at over 500 masterclasses, workshops and summer schools, imparting ensemble skills and techniques to vocal ensembles across the globe.
• Recognition for The King’s Singers during his tenure include two Grammy Awards®, a further Grammy nomination and an induction into the inaugural Gramophone Hall of Fame.

• Conductor and composer, also Professor Superior in Choir and Conducting at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University.
• Well known leader of Vocal Art Ensemble of Sweden, a powerful voice in the Swedish and international community.
• Jan is also the recipient of the two finest Swedish distinctions for musicians: “Johannes Norrby Medal” (2004) and “Choral Conductor of the Year” (2015) for his superb artistic quality and devotion, both on the national and international stage of choral music.

   

• Director of the show choir Committee of the World Youth Choral Artists’ Association， Deputy Director of the show choir Committee of the Chinese University Choral Association
• Guest director of Peiyang Chorus of Tianjin University and Tongji University Choir
• Started learning vocals and dancing at an early age, and specializes in performing chorus rehearsal and theoretical research
• Works rehearsed have been performed in more than 30 countries and regions in the world, and have won the Gold Award of International Chorus Competition and the Best Performance Award for more than 30 times