Claude Lenners (* 1956 Luxembourg)

Luxembourg composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been successfully performed throughout Europe; he is also active as a promoter of new music and founder of the Festival "Rainy Days" for Contemporary Music.

With a voice described as a "rich lyric tenor," Steven Ebel continues to receive critical and popular acclaim for his work in concert, recital and opera. Mr. Ebel débuted as Victorin/Gaston in the UK and Royal Opera House premiere of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at Covent Garden before beginning his two-year with the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at London's Royal Opera House.

Dr. Julia Gomelskaya (1964) graduated from Simpheropol Musical College named after P.I.Tchaikovsky as a pianist with distinction in 1983, then – in 1990 – she graduated from Odessa State A.V.Nezhdanova Music Academy (Ukraine) under Prof. A.Krasotov obtaining a Diploma in Composition with distinction in 1990.

Lybin, Dmitry (b. June 27, 1963, Minsk). Belarusian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Feliz Anne R. Macahis (b.1987, Taytay Rizal) Philippine- born composer of chamber, orchestral and choral music which were performed in Asia.

Born in London in 1948, Malcolm Dedman was initially self-taught, having started to compose when he was 12. He had formal composition lessons with Patric Standford at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1974-75, but did not receive a formal qualification in music until 2005, when he passed his Masters Degree in Composing Concert Music at Thames Valley University with distinction.

Daniel Wirtz, born in 1979, decided to learn guitar at the age of ten. On his instrument as well as in numerous compositions he combines elements of Jazz, classical and traditional music.

Josué Bonnín de Góngora was born in Madrid in 1970. At the age of eight he received his first piano lessons from his father. Soon after that, he starts writing his first compositions, like the "Waltz in C minor", a piece where his characteristic expressiveness can already be perceived, and two groups of works that he finishes during the next years: the "Poems" and the "Tales of Solitude".

Thrower, John (David). Composer, conductor, clarinetist, b North Battleford, Sask, 5 Nov 1951; B MUS (Toronto) 1975. He began to study the clarinet at 8 and became principal clarinet of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra at 16. He studied for two years at the University of Saskatchewan, where his teachers included Monte Keene Pishny-Floyd and David Kaplan, then moved in 1973 to the University of Toronto, where he studied composition with Gustav Ciamaga, Edward Laufer, and John Weinzweig, and conducting with Victor Feldbrill, Ernesto Barbini, Boyd Neel, and Kazimierz Kord.

Vladimir Petrov is percussionist in the famous Bruckner Orchestra in Linz / Austria. He was born in Pleven / Bulgaria in 1986 and began studying percussion at the age of nine with Simeon Serafimov. He has performed with many orchestras such as the Opera-Philharmonic Society Ruse, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien, Bruckner Orchestra Linz and was solo timpanist of the Junior Philharmonic Orchestra “Emil Chakarov”.