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.

Katy Romanou  is a researcher of Greek music in the CE. She has published widely in Greek and English languages, and has conducted several projects in collaboration with Greek and foreign – especially Balkan – musicologists. Romanou (who studied musicology in Bloomington, IN, in 1969-1974) was a music critic of the daily Kathimerini (1974-1986), taught in several music conservatories in Greece, as well as in the University of Athens and the European University of Cyprus. She is coordinator of the Greek team of RIPM (Retrospective Index of Music Periodicals), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Musicological Society.

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.

Tiberiu Soare Soare is conductor at the Bucharest National Opera and associate professor with the National University of Music Bucharest, where he teaches orchestral conducting. He started his career in 1999 and has since worked with numerous philharmonic orchestras and opera houses in Romania and abroad, among which the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg etc. Since 2007 he is conductor of the Profil Ensemble. Between 2012 and 2015 he was principal conductor of the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choirs.
Tiberiu Soare has been collaborating on a permanent basis with the Calea Victoriei Foundation since 2007. His many interactive conferences on musical themes as a lecturer with the Foundation resulted in two books: Pentru ce mergem la operă? [Why Do We Go to the Opera?] (2014) and Nouă povești muzicale [Nine Musical Stories] (2016).

Vlad Văidean (b. 1992) studied musicology at the National University of Music Bucharest (UNMB), under the guidance of Prof. Valentina Sandu-Dediu. In 2015-2016 he received an Erasmus scholarship to the Institute of Musicology in Leipzig. He won numerous first prizes during his studies, including, in 2017 and 2019, those awarded by the two journals published by the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists: Actualitatea muzicală (as a young contemporary music critic), respectively Muzica (for musicological study). He participated in national and international symposia in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Timișoara. He wrote two chapters included in the first volume of New Histories of Romanian Musics (Editura Muzicală, Bucharest, 2020); one of these chapters formed the core of his PhD thesis (defensed in January 2023) on the music and personality of George Enescu, which remains his main research interest. He is currently associate teacher at UNMB, a member of the editorial staff of Musicology Today and a collaborator of the George Enescu National Museum.