Hermann Danuser studied oboe, piano, musicology, philosophy and German literature in Zurich (1965–1973; Musikalische Prosa, 1975) and subsequently moved to West Berlin, habilitating at the Technical University with Carl Dahlhaus in 1983 (Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1984). He went on to teach in Hannover, Freiburg im Breisgau, and, from 1993 to 2014, at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He has published and edited the following, among others: Gustav Mahler und seine Zeit (1991); Musikalische Interpretation (1992); Im Zenit der Moderne (1997); Musikalische Lyrik (2004). After the publication of Weltanschauungsmusik (2009) and Gesammelte Vorträge und Aufsätze (four vols., 2014, edited by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Christian Schaper und Laure Spaltenstein), Edition Argus is now set to publish Metamusik.
For many years, Danuser has overseen research at the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, and is also a member of the Kuratorium of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. His main interests lie in modern music history and historiography, aesthetics, theory, analysis and interpretation/performance (Interpretationsforschung). To mark his 65th birthday in 2011, a Festschrift edited by Camilla Bork et al. was published: Ereignis und Exegese. Musikalische Interpretation – Interpretation der Musik.

Nicolae Gheorghiță is Professor of Byzantine Musical Palaeography, Musical Stylistics and Theories of Byzantine Chant Performance at the National University of Music Bucharest (UNMB), as well as a conductor and performer with the Psalmodia Choir of Byzantine music. He is a graduate of the same institution, and has taken higher studies in Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki), and he has been the recipient of research grants from the universities of Cambridge, Saint Petersburg, and Venice. Gheorghiță has also completed two post-doctoral programmes, at the New Europe College and the Musical Institute for Advanced Doctoral Studies, Bucharest. His writings include over fifty articles and 11 books, and edited volumes. Gheorghiță has been a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists since 2001, and has twice won the prestigious institution’s prize, in 2010 (Byzantine Music between Constantinople and the Danubian Principalities. Studies in Byzantine Musicology) and 2015 (Musical Crossroads. Church Chants and Brass Bands at the Gates of the Orient), and the Music Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in the same year 2015, for the same book, Musical Crossroads. Nicolae Gheorghiță is also the editor of the Musica Sacra section within the Musicology Today international periodical of the UNMB

Costin Moisil is an associate professor at the National University of Music Bucharest where he teaches ethnomusicology and academic writing. He is also a researcher at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest and an editor for the Ethnophonie CD series of traditional musics. His research focuses on Byzantine church music and oral musics in Romania. His last book is Construcția unei identități românești în muzica bisericească [Constructing a Romanian Identity in Church Music], 2018.
Since 2015 Moisil is an executive editor of Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest. He was an Odobleja fellow of the New Europe College, Bucharest (2012-13). In 2016 he was awarded the Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists for historiography.

Anna G. Piotrowska’s main research interests are the sociological and cultural aspects of musical life. She is a prolific author, having published several books, in both English, including Gypsy Music in European Culture (2013) and Polish, and numerous articles, in Polish, English, German, Slovak, and Georgian. She has been the recipient of a number of internationally renowned fellowships and awards, including Fulbright Fellow at Boston University, International Fellow at the New Europe College, the Moritz Csáky Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Mellon Fellowship at Edinburgh University. Anna G. Piotrowska has taken an active part in numerous international conferences and workshops. Currently, she takes part in the Towards a Global History of Music Balzan Musicology Project, directed by Reinhard Strohm. Piotrowska is professionally associated with the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Florinela Popa is Professor at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she previously studied music education and musicology. She is also director of the Department of Musicology and Music Education Sciences of the same institution and executive editor of the academic journal Musicology Today of UNMB. She was postdoctoral research fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest (2008; 2011-2012; 2020-2021) and Musical Institute for Doctoral Advanced Studies, UNMB (2012-2013). Her publications include the books Mihail Jora. A European Modern (2009), Sergei Prokofiev (2012), Music and Ideologies in the 20th Century (2022), as well as numerous articles in musicological journals and collective volumes. She is also co-editor of the ten volumes in the series Documents in the Archive of the National Museum “George Enescu”: Articles on George Enescu in Periodicals (2009-2017). In 2012 and 2022, she was awarded the Union of the Romanian Composers and Musicology Prize for historiography, and in 2024 the Romanian Academy Prize.

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.