• Artistic Director and founder of the children's choir "Cor Vivaldi-Petits Cantors de Catalunya" (Ambassador 2017 IFCM)
• Pianist, pedagogue and conductor
• Adjudicator in international competitions
• Artistic Director of the festival "Canta al Mar" in Calella since 2017
• Member of the World Choir Council

• Chairperson of the Belarusian Choral Directors Association and Head of the Choral Conducting Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music
• Author and initiator of a great number of choral projects in Belarus including Open Conductor’s Competition named after V. Rovdo, Choral pages of the XX-th century, etc.
• Regularly invited specialist for lectures and master classes on Russian, Belarusian Orthodox and modern choral music in Europe, Russia and China
• Adjudicator, conductor and teacher of conducting and developer of “choral theater” in Belarus

• Conductor University of Johannesburg (UJ) Choir and Afrikaans Hoër Meisies Pretoria (AHMP) Choir
• Composer and arranger
• Soloist, organist
• Adjudicator and clinician

• Artistic Director Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Chorus Niagara, Opera in Concert Chorus and the Ontario Male Chorus
• Recognized guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator
• Recipient of the Order of Canada, Honourary Doctorate (Brock University), Queens Jubilee Medal, Distinguished Service Award (Choral Canada) for contribution to the Canadian choral community

• Presenter of Choir Workshops / Voice coaching
• Adjudicator of National ATKV Choir Competition / eisteddfods
• Conductor of various Children and Youth Choir’s / Previous champions at Choir Games
• National award winner for developing / promoting choral singing among the youth

• Singing teacher, juror
• Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Jugendchor Wernigerode
• Representative of Music Education at the Landesgymnasium für Musik Saxony-Anhalt
• Founder of the "Kammerchor Wernigerode"

• Composer, arranger, adjudicator, voice trainer and producer of choral, classical and jazz music concerts
• Founding Director of Voices of Cape Town, Ingoma Music Ministries and Township Opera Company
• Former Founding member of South African Choral Music Association (SACMA), South African Tertiary Institutions Choral Association (SATICA) and Western Cape Choral Music Association (WECCMA)
• Chairman and Conductor of "Young Voices South Africa"
• Member of the IFCM
• Current President of Choral Music Federation of South Africa (COMFESA)

• Judge on TV Show "Varsity Sing" for KykNet, South Africa
• Chorus Master at Cape Town Opera
• Voice Teacher at University Of Western Cape, Performing Arts Centre
• Chorus Member of Internationally Acclaimed Opera Chorus at Cape Town Opera

• Conductor of the award winning women's choir Carmen manet – the winner of Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017
• Artistic Director of musical center DO RE MI in Bled specialized in working with children with special needs and children with autistic spectrum disorder
• International jury member
• Musical arranger

• Conductor of the Meadowlands Zone 3 Church Choir of the Seventh-day Adventist, Clusters of the Harvest, and the internationally acclaimed SDASA Chorale
• Associate conductor of the Oregon Adventist Men’s Chorus
• Former conductor of the University of Pretoria Chorale
• Jury member of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation Overseas Scholarship for piano and composition
• Past president of NewMusic South Africa, the south African chapter of the International Society of Contemporary Music
• Taught counterpoint and composition at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa

• Artistic Director of the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, South Africa (WCG Champions 2018)
• Former Director of the Kearsney College Choir (WCG Champions 2012 and 2014)
• Composer and arranger of choral and instrumental music
• Frequent clinician, workshop facilitator, guest conductor

• member of the World Choir Council
• choral and orchestral conductor
• former choirmaster at The Royal Danish Opera
• former Artistic Director of the Copenhagen Concert Society and The Danish Boys Choir
• international adjudicator, conductor and guest lecturer
• jury member at ten editions of the World Choir Games and Senior Advisor of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Director of "Sound of the Nation Choir" 2016 Large category National champions (OMNCF)
• Director of "Bagale Chorus" Large category North West Champions 2010-2015 (OMNCF)
• Directed the International Children Outreach Ministries Honours Chorus of South Africa in 2008-2012 in USA
• A conductor, composer, facilitator, accompanist, choral practitioner and coach, adjudicator of many choral events in South Africa and neighboring countries
• Head of Music at Soshanguve Secondary School

• Conductor of the "Choir and Orchestra of the University of Abomey-Calavi"
• Founder and director of several choirs, among them the "Children's Choir of Bénin"
• Created the festival "Les Rencontres Polyphoniques du Bénin"
• Guest conductor and lecturer
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• African Musical Arts Specialist in African Music and Dance, including marimba and African percussion, African traditional and indigenous music
• Adjudicator, conductor and music director
• Active composer and arranger

• member of the World Choir Council
• Professor Emeritus of Music at Ewha Womans University
• Director of Ewha Chamber Choir and conducted Ansan City Choir for 25 years
• President of KCMA (Korea Church Music Association)
• Broadcasting host of FEBC FM
• Artistic Director of 2023 World Choir Games
• received the 2021 University of Colorado Distinguished Choral Alumnus Award

• 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

• Founder of South African Vocal Ensemble
• Founder of Drumming and Umakhweyane ensemble
• Director of the University of Zululand Choir and voice lecturer
• Seasoned adjudicator on choral and cultural music

• Receiver of the 1996 Elizabeth Cornell/Samro Award,for Best Voice Student at Wits University
• One of the founder members of the South African Tertiary Institutions Choral Association
• A fully recognised,dedicated contributor towards discovering and unleashing singing talent in Southern African Schools(Workshop facilitator, adjudicator and trainer)
• Member of the panel of adjudicators,for the leading Southern African Eisteddfod-The Old Mutual National Choir Festival

• Professor of Choral Music Education at Florida State University
• Artistic Director of the Tallahassee Community Chorus
• Author, composer, arranger and two instructional videos
• Robert Shaw Award (highest honor bestowed by ACDA)
• Lifetime Achievement award NCCO
• Extensive international conducting and adjudicating credits

• Choir Development Officer of ABC Motsepe Schools Choral Eisteddfod (Buffalo City Metropolitan District)
• Co-Founder and President of Euphoric Utterances Chorale (EUCHO)
• Conductor of Uviwe Senior Secondary School
• Silver Medallist at ATKV Applous with Uviwe Senior Secondary School Choir (2013)
• Province of the Eastern Cape’s Representative with Uviwe Senior Secondary School Choir at ABC Motsepe Schools Choral Eisteddfod (2017)
• Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SIA Music Promotions

• For 25 years she was Founder and Director of the multi-cultural “Nelson Mandela
  University Choir” (formerly NNMU Choir) selected to perform e.g. as guest choir at the fi rst IFCM World Choir Expo – China/Macao SAR in 2015
• She pioneered and elevated the performance of authentic, traditional African Music to a theatrical level
• First prize winner of the „Internationaler Chorwettbewerb“ in Spittal an der Drau, Austria in 2009
• She started the Choral Conducting Department at the Nelson Mandela University with the late Kare Hanken and the Norges Korforbund, Norway in 2000 to empower formerly disadvantaged teachers and create a platform for young talented conductors nationally
• Member of the Artistic Committee of the 12th IFCM World Choral Symposium,
  Barcelona in 2017

• founder and Artistic Director of the award winning Barnsley Youth Choir, a community choir of 650 members based in an area of significant deprivation
• has worked in Education at Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and University levels as an Advanced Skills Teacher, Advisory Teacher and as a Regional Director of Education for a large Education Trust
• composer and arranger
• in demand internationally as a clinician, workshop leader, conductor and adjudicator

• Founder of The Esoterics, a professional-caliber chamber choir in Seattle that specializes in contemporary choral music, director of this ensemble for 25 years
• Holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting and Music Theory from Yale and the University of Washington
• Fulbright Fellow in choral music in Stockholm, performed with Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Kammarkör
• Winner of the 2010 Dale Warland Singers Commission, as well as awards from Chorus America, New Music USA, and the National Endowment for the Arts

• Founder and Artistic Director of “Estudio Coral Meridies”, an award winning-choir that has represented Latin America in several international festivals
• Conductor of children and youth choirs at the “Instituto Coral de Santa Fe”, Argentina
• Jury member and clinician at numerous international festivals in Europe and Latin America.
• Professor of Choral conducting at “Tactus – Grupo de Estudio de Dirección Coral”
• Various publications on Latin American choral music and editor of the coral series “Latin American Choral Music” (Música Coral Latinoamericana)

• Founder and Artistic Director of the chamber choir "Maulbronner Kammerchor" and the "Kantorei Maulbronn" until 2016 and from 1979 until 2013 Artistic Director of the festival "Klosterkonzerte Maulbronn"
• Recorded more than 20 CDs with the "Maulbronner Kammerchor", including 10 oratorios by G.F. Händel, which were awarded the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Ring 2013
• Chair of the advisory board of the German Music Council and Artistic Leader and Chairman of the jury of the "Deutscher Chorwettbewerb" from 2002 - 2020
• Since 2014 Artistic Director of the "Internationaler Kammerchor-Wettbewerb Marktoberdorf"
• Chair of the advisory board of the "Bundesjugendchor of Germany", recently founded by the German Music Council
• Member of the World Choir Council

• member of the World Choir Council
• National First Class Conductor (rank of professional title in China)
• President of Shenzhen Chorus Association
• founder and Artistic Director of Shenzhen Star Bright Choir
• founder and Director of Guangdong international choral pedagogic education project
• directed many choirs which have won champion titles in numerous choral competitions, both home and abroad in past few decades

• Pianist, choral director, music educator, intellectual property lawyer, adjudicator
• Founder of "Soul Sounds", Sri Lanka's premiere female ensemble, and Soul Sounds Academy, one of Sri Lanka's leading music educational institutions
• Specialized in piano performance and piano accompaniment at the Royal College of Music in London
• Completed her master degree in Law at University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Entertainment Law
• Was one of the judges for the franchised talent show "Sri Lanka's Got Talent"
• Plays an important role in the promotion of culture and arts in Sri Lanka and the region
• Received the SAARC Women of Achievement Award, the Zonta Award, the Bunka Award presented by the Japan/Sri Lanka Association and most recently the Women in Management Award 2019/2020 for Arts and Creative Industry
• Member of the World Choir Council

• One of Israel's most prominent composers and conductors
• Composer of more than 100 compositions, including choral and chamber music, operas, concerti, oratorios and symphonic music, many of which have been performed not only in Israel, but worldwide.
• Awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Composition in 1997 and again in 2015
• Recipient of ACUM Award for Life Achievement in Israel
• Harlap received the prestigious Azrieli Music Prize (AMP)-2022 for Jewish Music for his composition "Out of the Depths have I cried unto Thee Lord", for soprano and orchestra.
• Guest conductor of the major orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Member of the World Choir Council

clinician, adjudicator, choral educator

• Principal Conductor of Gondwana Chorale (national youth choir)
• Associate Director of Voices of Birralee and conductor of Birralee Blokes and Resonance of Birralee
• secondary school choral director at Brisbane Girls Grammar School
• awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for services to choral music in Australia

• Professor at the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts - University of Pécs, teaching choral conducting and the Kodály method.
• Conductor of the Béla Bartók Male Choir and the University Choir of Pécs as well as one of the conductors of the EuroChoir 2013 session.
• Artistic leader of the highly acclaimed European Winesong Festivals organized for male choirs.
• In 2007 he was awarded the Liszt-Prize, the highest distinction for performing artists in Hungary.

• choral composer and arranger, whose 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 and actively co-operating with many choral theme projects
• lecturer and teacher of composing master classes, clinician specially with children singing, rhythm and creativity in choirs
• founder and producer of the nationwide MunKuoro (MyChoir) -network in Finland for un-auditioned children and youth choirs

• Director of Macedonia University of Thessaloniki School of Music Science & Art Choirs and Head of Choral Conducting Studies
• Founding Artistic Director of the Ss. Cyril & Methodios Choral Organization, renowned for its many international distinctions and regular collaboration with Thessaloniki State Orchestra and Opera
• Artistic Director of the "Thessaloniki Concert Hall" Children & Youth Choirs' Festival
• International adjudicator, lecturer and author of choral text books and choral score editions
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council.

• 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"
• Member of the World Choir Council

• Graduate of several master classes under Bachakademie Stuttgart with Prof. Helmuth Rilling
• His professors of conducting were Professor Jiří Skopal (University of Hradec Králové) and Doctor Vlastislav Novák (Conservatory Pardubice).
• Founder and conductor of the "Bonifantes Boys Choir"
• Has been presented with a number of awards for outstanding conducting performance and his choir won dozens of gold medals at various international competitions.
• Artistic Director of a professional ensemble "Czech Soloist Consort"
• Involved in composing activities and acknowledged by experts for his interpretation of 20th century music and for historically authentic interpretation of baroque music
• Member of the World Choir Council

• Donka Miteva studied orchestra conducting at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and Choral conducting at the State Academy of Music in Sofia.
• She was awarded scholarships from the Richard Wagner Society, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the European Academy Montepulciano and the Noel Minet Foundation.
• Donka Miteva worked with numerous ensembles in Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Czech republic, Hungary, Portugal , China, South Africa a.o.
• 2007 – 2011 she was a Conductor and Choir Director at the State Opera in Münster, Germany.
• She was awarded the 1st Prize at the 7th Int. Competition for young conductors in St. Petersburg, the 3rd Prize at the 5th Int. Conducting Competition Jeunesse Musicales in Bucharest a.o.
• Since October 2011 Donka Miteva is appointed Artistic Director and Conductor of Collegium Musicum Berlin where she conducts two Symphony Orchestras, an Oratorio Choir and a chamber choir.
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council.

• 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

• Studied music since he was 6 years old and conducted choirs and music bands since he was a teenager
• Studied in various workshops and masterclasses about choral/orchestral conducting and vocal techniques, both in Portugal and abroad, along with the most influential conductors worldwide
• During his musical studies graduated in management and public administration at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP)
• Due to his work as an Artistic Director, he has developed an intensive and passionate career in different choral events and workshops
• Involved in different national (radio, TV and cinema) and international projects and is project founder of "VOX LACI"
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association
• Artistic Director of the International Bamboo Organ Festival
• Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines
• 1st Prize winner at the American Choral Directors Association National Conducting Competition (Graduate Division)
• received the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan and Master of Music from Yale University

• Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the “Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory”, Professor at the Choral Conducting Department, Dean of the Offi ce for Foreign Students’ Affairs of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
• Artistic Director of the International Festivals of Moscow Conservatory: Autumn Choral Festival named after Prof. Boris Tevlin, Dedicated to the Victory Day, The Sealed Angel, Born in Russia
• Artistic Director of the State Choir of Tula region and Professor at the Choral Conducting Department of Moscow State Institute of Music named after A.G. Schnittke
• President of Creative Initiatives Development Fund
• Head of the Association of Folk and Choral Groups of the Russian Musical Union

• 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, pedagogue, clinician

• Artistic Director/Conductor, SYC Ensemble Singers
• Cultural Medallion 2012 recipient, Singapore’s highest arts accolade, awarded by the President of Singapore
• World Choir Council member, representing Singapore
• Coordinator, Asia Pacific Working Committee, International Federation for Choral Music

• Head of Vocal Studies & Senior Lecturer at The South African College of Music in the University of Cape Town
• A baritone, singing teacher, esteemed adjudicator, music clinician, choral enthusiast, conductor, mentor
• Conductor of the UCT Cantiamo and former conductor of the Simon Estes Choral Group

• Choir conductor, teacher, international juror at choral competitions and guest conductor
• Professor of Choral Conducting at the Faculty of Music at the National University of Mexico
• Founder, Conductor and Artistic Director of "Staccato", the choir of the National University of Mexico, which has received some prizes in international competitions
• Interested in the choral repertoire of this moment and specialist in Latin American choral repertoire
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• 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

• member of the World Choir Council
• has been active in the international choral world and music education as a vocalist, conductor, arranger, coach, workshop leader, adjudicator, teacher, publicist and organizer
• studied school music, piano and choral conducting at the Brabant Conservatory and specialized in musical theatre and light vocal music
• gained international fame with the Fontys Jazz Choir, with which he won the TV competition Korenslag in 2010 and became World Champion Jazz in 2016 during the World Choir Games
• was university lecturer in music education and choir conducting at the Fontys Academy for Music Education Tilburg and the Conservatory of Amsterdam
• currently a coach at vocal group Des Unique Tilburg, male vocal ensemble Dubbel Zes Den Bosch and male choir Daan Zomer Utrecht

• member of the World Choir Council
• Professor of conducting at the Central Conservatory of Music and Principal Conductor of Tianjin Symphony Orchestra
• Vice-Chairman of China Chorus Association
• resident conductor of Beijing Philharmonic Choir
• frequently invited to serve as an international judge in many important choral competitions
• in 2016, his monograph “Modern Conducting Techniques Course” was published by the Central Conservatory of Music