Harry White is Professor of Music at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. His many publications include The Keeper’s Recital. Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (1998); Musical Constructions of Nationalism. Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture, 1800-1945 (edited with Michael Murphy, 2001); Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (2008); and The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (edited with Barra Boydell, 2013). In 2020, he published Music, Migration and European Culture: Essays in Honour of Vjera Katalinić (edited with Ivano Cavallini and Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak), and The Musical Discourse of Servitude. Authority, Autonomy and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel.

Active as a composer and musicologist, Séamas de Barra’s compositions have been widely performed and broadcast both in Ireland and abroad. He has published numerous articles on Irish music and is a contributor to the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. He has co-edited (with Patrick Zuk) a pioneering series of monographs on Irish composers which were published jointly by Field Day Publications and the Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in the University of Notre Dame in the USA, and to which he contributed the first volume, Aloys Fleischmann, in 2006. His critical study of the music of Aloys Fleischmann Senior appeared in 2010 in Aloys Fleischmann (1884-1964): Immigrant Musician in Ireland by Joseph P. Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann, and Ina Boyle (1889-1967): A Composer’s Life, which he co-authored with Ita Beausang, was published by Cork University Press in 2018. A monograph on Irish symphonist John Kinsella is in the press, and he is currently researching the life and work of composer, folk-song collector and arranger Carl Hardebeck, who made major contributions to the development of Irish music in the first half of the 20th century.

Olguța Lupu studied piano, then graduated in composition with Tiberiu Olah at the Bucharest Conservatory. She holds a PhD in musicology and her favourite subject is 20th century music, with a focus on Romanian composers. Her work has been included in various national and international conferences and symposia, she has participated in radio broadcasts and has published over 50 studies. She has written books in the field of musicology and music theory and coordinated, as editor, several volumes dedicated to important personalities of Romanian music. In 2016 and 2018 she was awarded the prizes of the Romanian Society of Composers and Musicologists and Muzica magazine, respectively. Currently, she teaches music theory and score reading, and is the Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Musicology and Music Education at the National University of Music Bucharest.

Cristina Şuteu earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Musicology in 2009 and a Master’s Degree in 2011 from Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca. In 2015 she defended her PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Professor Gabriel Banciu from the above-mentioned institution. She was an Erasmus student (2014-2015) at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 2016 she published her PhD thesis under the title Critica muzicală: periegeză, exegeză şi hermeneutică [Musical Criticism: Periegesis, Exegesis and Hermeneutics] and edited the volume Florilegiu enescian [Enescian Florilegium] authored by the musicologist Viorel Cosma. During her years of study, she carried out research internships at prestigious libraries in Australia, Italy, England, Austria and Spain. Currently she is an assistant lecturer at Gheorghe Dima Music Academy.

Lavinia Gheorghe has graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest, in Musicology (2018) and Musicological Synthesis (Master – 2020), winning, over the years, prizes at the National Student Competition of Musicology. She has published in periodicals such as Actualitatea Muzicală, Acord – Newspaper of the National University of Music Bucharest or Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest.

She is a scientific research assistant at the Constantin Brăiloiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy (since 2018), where she specializes in ethnomusicological research and, in parallel, she is a PhD student at the National University of Music Bucharest.