Nicolae Gheorghiță is Professor of Byzantine Musical Palaeography, Musical Stylistics and Theories of Byzantine Chant Performance at the National University of Music, Bucharest, as well as a conductor and performer with the Psalmodia Choir of Byzantine music. He is a graduate of the National University of Bucharest (with a BA in Byzantine Music (1996) and Musicology (1998), an MA (1997), and a PhD (2005)), and has taken higher studies in Athens and Τhessaloniki. He has been the recipient of research grants from the universities of Cambridge, Sankt 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. He 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, Bucharest, 2010) and 2015 (Musical Crossroads. Church Chants and Brass Bands at the Gates of the Orient, Bucharest, 2015). He is the author of more than 40 academic studies, published in Romania, Greece, Finland, Italy, the US, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and the U.K., most of which have been presented at national and international conferences on musicology and Byzantine studies. He is also the author and editor of nine volumes on musicology published in Romania and Greece.

Florinela Popa is Associate Professor at the National University of Music Bucharest, with degrees in music education and musicology (with Professor Valentina Sandu-Dediu). She also works as a scientific researcher at the National Museum ‘George Enescu’, Bucharest. She has taken part in such international projects as Musica migrans – Lebenslinien mittel- und osteuropäischer Musiker, coordinated by Helmut Loos (University of Leipzig, 2007–2008), and EthnoArc (2008), receiving a research grant from New Europe College, Bucharest. She was postdoctoral research fellow at New Europe College (2011–2012) and at National University of Music Bucharest – MIDAS (Musical Institute for Doctoral Advanced Studies) (2012–2013). She is the author of the books Mihail Jora: A European Modern (Bucharest, 2009) and Sergei Prokofiev (Bucharest, 2012), and co-author of volumes I–IX in the series Documents in the Archive of the National Museum „George Enescu”: Articles on George Enescu in Periodicals (Bucharest 2009–2016). She has contributed chapters to several collected volumes, including Musical Aesthetics: Another Kind of Manual (Bucharest, 2007); Tiberiu Olah and the Multiple Facets of Postmodernism (Bucharest, 2008); Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Mitteilungen der internationalen Arbeitsgemeinschaft an der Universität Leipzig, Heft 13. (Leipzig, 2013); Synthesis Studies MIDAS 2012–2013, vol. 1 (Bucharest, 2013); Beethoven-Rezeption in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Leipzig 2015); Forum Musik Rumänien (Berlin 2015); Proceedings of the „George Enescu” International Musicology Symposium 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 (Bucharest 2007–15) and has contributed to the journals Musicology Today, Secolul XXI, Transylvanian Review, Dilemateca, Muzica, Journal of Ethnography and Folklore, Acord.

In 2012, she was awarded the Union of the Romanian Composers and Musicology Prize for historiography.

Haiganuş Preda-Schimek is a free-lance musicologist. She was born in Bucharest, where she studied at the local University of Music (PhD in 2002). She has been living in Vienna (Austria) since 1997, where she has worked at various research projects on nineteenth-century Romanian Music funded by the Austrian Scientific Community, the City of Vienna and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. Her work is published in Musicologica Austriaca, Österreichische Musikzeitschrift (Vienna), Spiegelungen (Munich), Musurgia (Paris), Muzica (Bucharest), among others.

Valentina Sandu-Dediu graduated in musicology from the National Music University of Bucharest in 1990. She has been teaching the music of the twentieth century, musicology and stylistics at that institution since 1993. She has written over 30 studies and 300 articles and essays, and is the author of 10 books (see Rumänische Musik nach 1944, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2006; Alegeri, atitudini, afecte. Despre stil și retorică în muzică [Choice, affect, attitude. Style and Rhetoric in Music], Bucharest: Ed. Didactică și Pedagogică 2010, Octave paralele [Parallel Octaves], Bucharest: Humanitas, 2014). She also plays the piano in chamber ensembles (CDs released in Romania with Aurelian Octav Popa, in Germany/ Neos with Dan Dediu, and in Boston / Albany with Ray Jackendoff). Sandu-Dediu was a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and since 2014 is rector of New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest. She received the Peregrinus-Stiftung Prize of Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2008.