Anna Dalos studied musicology at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (1993-1998), and attended the Doctoral Programme in Musicology of the same institution (1998-2002). She spent a year on a German exchange scholarship (DAAD) at Humboldt University, Berlin (1999-2000). A winner of the ‘Lendület’ grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she is head of the Archives and Research Group for 20th-21st Century Hungarian Music at the Institute of Musicology. Her research focuses on 20th century music, and the history of composition and musicology in Hungary. Her recent book, Zoltán Kodály’s World of Music was published by University of California Press in 2020

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

Melita Milin is a Senior researcher at the Institute of Musicology in Belgrade. She was awarded a PhD by the University of Ljubljana in 1995. Her main research area is twentieth- century Serbian music in the European context, with an emphasis on musical nationalism, the relationship between music and politics, and the work of Ljubica Marić, a female Serbian composer. She has been a member of three international musicological projects. She was the cofounder and editor of the first five annual issues of the international journal Muzikologija (2001-2005). She is the author of a book on Serbian music since 1945 and numerous articles published in Serbia and abroad. She is also the editor of several collected papers.

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.

Harry White is Professor and Chair of Music at University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and of the Royal Irish Academy, and a corresponding Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His many publications include The Keeper’s Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (1998), Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (2008) and The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel (2020). He was general editor (with Barra Boydell) of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013) and has served as series editor of Irish Musical Studies since 1990. His most recent monograph, Fieldwork: Essays on Music and Cultural History in Ireland will be published by The Boydell Press in 2025.