Barry Cooper is a professor of music at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his research on Beethoven and has written or edited seven books on the composer, the most recent being Beethoven: An Extraordinary Life (London, 2013). He has also published a scholarly performing edition of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas (London, 2007), with extensive commentary, proclaimed ‘Best Classical Publication’ of the year by the Music Industries Association. His completion of the first movement of Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony has attracted widespread international attention and appeared in a new edition in 2013. His other publications include Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey (Lanham, 2009); monographs on English Baroque keyboard music and on music theory in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; three catalogues of musical source material; and numerous journal articles.

Charles Edward McGuire is Professor of Musicology at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His publications include the monographs Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Elgar's Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative (Ashgate, 2002) and The Historical Dictionary of English Music (co-authored with Oberlin colleague Steven Plank; Scarecrow, 2011), as well as numerous essays on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and British music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. McGuire holds a BA and a BMus from Oberlin College and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and a PhD from Harvard University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Music of the University of York from 2012–2013, and is a past President of the North American British Music Studies Association. He is currently at work on a history of British musical festivals, to be published by Boydell & Brewer.

Nicole Grimes is a Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of Music, University College Dublin. Her research is concerned with the music of the nineteenth century focusing on the intersection between nineteenth- and twentieth-century German music criticism, music analysis and music aesthetics. She has published articles in Music Analysis, Ad Parnassum, The Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and the American Brahms Society Newsletter, amongst others. She is co-editor (with Angela Mace) of Mendelssohn perspectives (Ashgate, 2012) and a joint editor (with Siobhán Donovan and Wolfgang Marx) of Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression (University of Rochester Press, 2013). She is currently writing a book called Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in German Culture. She has taught music history at University College Dublin, the University of California, Irvine, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.

Music critic and author David Hurwitz is the founder and Executive Editor of Classicstoday.com, the Internet's first classical music review magazine. Holding MA degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities, Hurwitz is the author of books on Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn, Dvorák, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Bernstein, published under the Amadeus Press and Continuum imprints. His article ‘So Klingt Wien: Conductors, Orchestras, and Vibrato in the 19^th and Early 20^th Century’, was published in the February, 2012, issue of Music and Letters.

David Francis Urrows is Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University, where he teaches music history, analysis, and composition, and where he has directed The Pipe Organ in China Project since 1989. He is the editor of a multi-volume critical edition of the music of Otto Dresel (1826–1890), published by A-R Editions. He is also a member of the executive committee of the International Word and Music Studies Association (WMA) and has edited Word and Music Studies 9 (2008) and co-edited Word and Music Studies 7 (2005). He is co-author of Randall Thompson: A Bio-bibliography (1991) and has published articles in The Journal of Musicological Research, American Music, Fontes Artis Musicæ, The Tracker, American Choral Review and The American Organist.