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.
Oleg Garaz (born in Soroca, Republic of Moldova) – musicologist. Education and training: Stefan Neaga Music College (Chisinau), theoretical department (1979-1983), Gavriil Musicescu Conservatoire (Chisinau), Theoretical Faculty, Department of Musicology (1987-1990), Gheorghe Dima Music Academy (Cluj-Napoca), Theoretical Faculty, Department of Musicology (1990-1995 /1997), Advanced Studies, Department of Musicology (1997-1998). Scientific doctoral studies completed at the National University of Music Bucharest, with a thesis entitled The European Musical Canon in Postmodernity, defended in 2013. Published books: Contraideologii muzicale [Musical Counter-Ideologies] (2003), Poetica muzicală în convorbiri [Musical Poetics in Conversations] (2003), Muziconautice [Musicalnauticals] (2007), Territoria (2007), Muzica şi sensul sincretic al nostalgiei [Music and the Syncretic Sense of Nostalgia] (2011), Exerciţii de muzicologie [Musicological Exercises] (2014). Professional affiliations: Member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania (from 1998). At present: teacher at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca.
Monica Gurău-Mihalache is a radio producer of musical shows at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company (Radio Romania) since 1996. She studied at the National Music University of Bucharest, department of musicology, obtaining a master degree in 2002. She wrote several articles and a book, Muzica între prezent și viitor (Music between present and future), Bucharest: Editura Muzicală, 2013. She is also a member of the musicology department of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania.
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