Lavinia Coman is a retired Professor from the National University of Music Bucharest. She studied piano with Silvia Șerbescu (1959-1964) at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatoire in Bucharest, where she became, after graduating, Assistant Accompanist in the Lied Department (1964-1972). Subsequently she worked as Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor in the Piano Department. She gave more than 400 concerts and recitals of lieder and chamber music, many of them broadcast on TV and radio and she recorded a number of LPs and CDs. Lavinia Coman was member of the jury in various piano competitions and gave master classes in Weimar, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome etc. She wrote several books as well as more than 200 articles, reviews, studies for academic conferences, specializing in piano history, didactics and performance. She was awarded the Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists for Didactic Works (2007) and Historiography (2014).

Musicologist and PhD in music since 2002, Antigona Rădulescu is Professor at the National University of Music Bucharest teaching courses of polyphony, semiotics and musical narratology. Her musicological activity includes: published books – Perspective semiotice în muzică [Semiotic Perspectives in Music] (2003), Johann Sebastian Bach (2010), Introducere în semiotica muzicală [Introduction in Musical Semiotics] (2013) – book for which she received the Romanian Academy Award (2015), Odiseea muzicală/Musical Odyssey 1864-2014; main collaborator of the volume Muzica românească între 1944-2000 by Valentina Sandu-Dediu (2002), translated into German (2006; Rumänische Musik nach 1944, Verlag: Pfau, Saarbrücken, 2006); coordinator of the collective volumes Estetica. Un alt fel de manual [Aesthetic. Another Kind of Manual] (2007), and Generația de aur a avangardei muzicale românești [The Golden Generation of the Romanian Musical Avantgarde] (2021); author of several university courses on counterpoint and musical semiotics and studies on various themes, from semiotics to modern and contemporary creation, published in academic journals.

After graduating in piano and musicology from the National Music University of Bucharest in 1990, Professor Valentina Sandu-Dediu turned to two main areas of research in the following decades: one interdisciplinary, in which she studied aspects of musical stylistics and rhetoric and proposed a definition of mannerism in musical culture (Stylistic and Symbolic Hypostases of Mannerism in Music, Bucharest, 1997), and another in which she studied the history of post-war music in communist Romania and the ideologies that determined it. The other direction in which Sandu-Dediu is active involves reassessing and reformulating the history of post-war Romanian music: Romanian Music between 1944-2000, printed in Bucharest in 2002, with a German version in 2006 (Pfau, Saarbrücken); New Histories of Romanian Musics (Bucharest, 2020), edited by Sandu-Dediu and Nicolae Gheorghiță, and Histories and Ideologies: the Bucharest Philharmonic (1868-2018), edited by Sandu-Dediu (Bucharest, 2023). Since 2014 she is rector of New Europe College Bucharest, Institute of Advanced Study.

Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnăuțoiu graduated from the National University of Music in Bucharest (violin class) and holds a doctorate with a thesis on The Violin Sonata from Debussy to Enescu. She taught chamber music at the same university until 2015 and between 1982 and 2000 she was a member of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra. She is author of various articles and a book about Béla Bartók’s violin and piano sonatas (Ars Docendi Publishing House of the Bucharest University, 2012). She has also researched and written about Romania’s recent history including articles about composers marginalized for ideological reasons (George Enescu, Mihail Jora, Paul Constantinescu, Alfred Alessandrescu, George Georgescu, Mîndru Katz), and books about two prominent musicians who were tailed while in exile, Sergiu Celibidache and Constantin Silvestri (Ars Docendi Publishing House of the Bucharest University, in 2012 and 2013). She also created the website www.muzicieni-in-arhive.ro.