Ralf Eisenbeiß was born in 1952 in Zeulenroda. After his secondary school examination he studied pedagogy, German philology and musical education. He received his PhD in 1979 at the Pedagogical University of Zwickau. From 1978 to 1981, he studied choir and orchestra conducting at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar.

Ralf Eisenbeiß was working as the director of the choral department at the Pedagogical University in Zwickau and appointed professor for choir conducting and choral singing in 1987. He was conductor of the renowned Pedagogical University Zwickau Choir. With his choir he performed a wide repertoire of compositions for a cappella choirs and with orchestra, too. Under his direction the choir won numerous prizes at national and international choir competitions.

Ralf Eisenbeiß was lecturer at the central seminar for choral conductors in Berlin and organized numerous workshops himself. He often appears as guest conductor at home and abroad. Since almost 30 years he works as artistic director of INTERKULTUR. Ralf Eisenbeiß is founder of the Int. Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau and one of the founders of the World Choir Games. Since 1992 he was responsible for more than 150 international competitions of INTERKULTUR in Germany, Italy, Korea, Indonesia, China, Austria, Spain, USA and other countries. Ralf Eisenbeiß is very often invited as a juror in national and other international choir competitions all over the world.

Soundarie David Rodrigo, completed her musical career at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London, where she was conferred with the award, Associate of the Royal College of Music, in piano performance and piano accompaniment. While at the Royal College of Music she participated in the prestigious Piano Platform series, which also gave her the opportunity to accompany various instrumentalists and vocalists, and collaborate at various venues including the Royal Festival Hall. As a soloist, Soundarie has performed both locally and internationally. She has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka playing Beethovan’s piano concerto number one and the famous Greig Piano Concerto. She has performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Bombay Symphony Orchestra in 2009. In 2015, she performed the Rhapsody in Blue with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. She enjoys collaborating with various singers and instrumentalists for recitals.

Soundarie is the Founder and Music Director of Sri Lanka’s premiere female ensemble, ‘Soul Sounds’ the first choir in Sri Lanka, to perform and win awards internationally over the last ten years, with acclaimed performances in India, Australia, China, Kuwait, Austria, France, and recently the USA, Malaysia, and South Africa, thus placing Sri Lanka on the map of International choral Music. She is also the Sri Lankan Representative on the Council for Musica Mundi, the International Organisation that hosts several prestigious International Choral Festivals and Competitions and is a jury member at international choral competitions. The ‘Soul Sounds Academy’ is founded by Soundarie, where giving opportunities for those passionate about music is her goal. She is one of the pioneering women of Choral singing in Sri Lanka, being the first to take Sri Lankan talent out to the world.

Besides having a hectic schedule in the field of music, Soundarie is also a qualified lawyer with a masters in law, in the field of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently Deputy Director at the SAARC Cultural Centre based in Sri Lanka. Among her awards include the SAARC Women of Achievement Award, Zonta Award, and the Bunka Award presented by the Japan/Sri Lanka Association.

Romāns Vanags is a graduate of Emils Darzins' specialized music college and of the Department of Choir and Orchestra Conducting of Jazeps Vitols' Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. He has received a diploma in choir conducting and in music pedagogy and additionally studied orchestra conducting.

In 2003, Vanags received the master's degree in music. His professional work is focused on conducting and pedagogy. He served as the Chief Conductor of the teachers' choir "Vanema" for a long time and since 1990 as the principal Conductor of the Latvian University female choir "Minjona". Furthermore he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Jāzeps Mediņš Music School boys` choir and worked with the Jazeps Medins Music College Symphonic Orchestra. From 1987 thru 1994, Vanags was employed at the Latvian Music Academy in Riga as professor of choir conducting and as the conductor of the academy choir. From 2005 to 2012 Vanags was the head of the Conducting Department.

Vanags has been appointed as one of the chief conductors of the All Latvian Song Celebration and the Youth Song Festival. Since 2004, Vanags is the chairman of the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO on the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, and since 2008, he is also a member of the World Choir Council. In 2008 Romāns Vanags received the highest civil decoration in Latvia – the Three Star Order. Romāns Vanags was a member of the artistic committee of the 8th World Choir Games in Riga and belongs since 2014 to the Artistic Board of INTERKULTUR.

Johan Rooze studied Piano and Conducting at the Utrecht Conservatory, the Netherlands. Later he went to the U.S. to specialize in Jazz Piano, Singing and Arranging.

He was founder and 23 years Musical Director of the Utrecht University Vocal Group “Dekoor”. They won many prices such as The Dutch Choir Festival, The International Vocal Group Festival and the “Idols for choir” TV show, “Korenslag” 2007 in the Netherlands. He was Conductor of the Utrecht Student Symphonic Choir and Orchestra. With these choirs he toured all over the world. Johan Rooze founded the “Dudok-Ensemble”, an outstanding Project Choir, conducted the monthly Bach Cantatas in Utrecht and was guest conductor with the National Radio Choir.

Furthermore he was Professor for Vocal Jazz, Conducting and Arranging at the Conservatories of Rotterdam and Alkmaar, a member of the board of Musical Advisors for the Dutch Royal Christian Music Association and Artistic Director for the International Choir Festival, Netherlands 2005.

In 2008 he moved to South Korea and teaches Choral Music and Jazz Piano at the Yeongnam University. He is musical director of a new Jazz Choir (Yaenoeul Jazz Singers) and in 2010 he founded the professional Daegu Students Choir. He is a frequent guest conductor with other choirs. Besides his choral work he is very active as a Jazz Pianist and Arranger. He works as Artistic Director for INTERKULTUR and is a frequently asked adjudicator, speaker and workshop-leader internationally.

Fred Sjöberg, born 1953, is an educated singer and choral conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and Örebro. Among others he has studied with Prof. Solwig Grippe, Prof. Eric Ericson and Prof. Helmuth Rilling. He has been the first conductor to conduct the three major international youth choirs as World Youth Choir (1991 and 2005), World Chamber Choir (1993) and European Youth Choir (1999).

When the Swedish organization for young choirs “UngiKör” started he was elected as their first president. In 2000 he was appointed as the “Conductor of the Year” in Sweden by SCDA (Swedish Choral Directors Association) appointed with the Johannes Norrby Medallion for outstanding and 2001 service and development to the Swedish Choral Life. From 1997 to 2004 he was the Music Director and conductor of the project “Notes for Millions”.

From 2000 to 2004 he was also Music Director of the Swedish Choral Centre as well as Artistic Director for Lund International Choral Festival from 2005 to 2006. Since 2009 he is Music Director of Swedish International Choral Centre in Örebro. Fred Sjöberg has been Vice President of Europa Cantat as well as President of the Music Commission of Europa Cantat and has also been Vice President of IFCM.

He is Council Member of INTERKULTUR and also on the Artistic Directorium of INTERKULTUR.

From 2015 he is General Artistic Director of INTERKULTUR.

conductor, composer, lecturer, adjudicator

• Vice Chairman of China Chorus Association and Chairman of China College and University Choir Committee
• Artistic Director and chief conductor of the awarding-winning "Peiyang Chorus"
• one of the representative figures of contemporary Chinese chorus art development, creating a unique "Peiyang chorus sound"
• regularly gives lectures on Chinese traditional music in the USA and more than 30 areas of China
• adjudicator at national and international choir competitions

teacher, conductor, author, clinician

• Professor in choral conducting and management
• conductor of the "Vocal Group Nordic Blue" and the "Defrost Youth Choir"
• frequently engaged as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator at international competitions
• specialist within the psychological / pedagogical aspects of choral leadership, coupled with the traditional perspectives of choral conducting and in the cross field between classical and rhythmical singing and conducting
• author of "The Learning Conductor", a book on choral conducting (2016)

• Head of Conducting Section at Vietnam National Academy of Music
• Artistic Director of the Vietnam International Choir Competition
• Well known in Vietnam as MC, honour guest, juror of music TV programs and competitions
• Member of World Choir Council

• Soprano, Pianist, Violinist, Choral and Music director
• Fellow of Trinity College, London and a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, London in both Piano and Singing
• as a teacher with 33 years' experience she is one of the leading Piano and Voice Teachers in Sri Lanka
• Founder/Director of Menaka Singers and Menaka Singers Opera Ensemble and lecturer at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts of Sri Lanka
• In recognition of her contribution to Western Music in Sri Lanka she was presented with an Award of Excellence in Music by the SAARC Women's Association

• Chorister at Westminster Abbey, Choral Scholar at King's College Cambridge and first tenor in the famous vocal group 'The Kings Singers'
• he is now an internationally renowned tenor, conductor and music editor and has recorded over 60 discs, with – among others – Bernstein, Britten, Domingo and Pavarotti
• in the 1970s he was appointed as an RCM singing professor by Sir David Willcocks
• runs his own international summer school – AIMS – in Eastbourne, England, every August, gives a regular series of master classes, is a well-known Music Festival adjudicator, and sits on international singing juries

• Graduated in 1989 from the Royal College of Music, London, majoring in piano and voice
• Recognised and respected conductor and educator in Singapore's choral scene
• In 2009, she founded "ONE Chamber Choir" which has triumphed at competitions in Philippines, Wales, Hungary, Germany and South Africa, including achieving the title Champion of the World Choir Games in 2018.
• Uses the creation of music as a platform to share and infuse her values and beliefs in her singers and inspires them to use the beauty of music.
• Co-founded Sourcewerkz PL to further her calling to teach, touch and transform the larger choral community and its audience, reaching out to many choristers around the world, proving that music is indeed without borders.

• known as the 'Nightingale of North East India', she has performed at numerous venues and places across the world and for distinguished dignitaries including former President of USA, Barrack Obama, the legendary Zubin Mehta, André Bocelli and the famous British band Coldplay
• her first international debut was in the year 2006, in Switzerland, where she performed pieces by Mozart, Handel and a Khasi folk opera – 'Ka Sohlyngngem'
• as an artist, she has arranged and orchestrated music, which was performed by the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the European Concert Orchestra and the Israeli Orchestra for special recitals
• presently the lead singer of the Shillong Chamber Choir which has won the talent show India's Got Talent 2010
• associateship and licentiate diploma from Trinity College London

• received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music from the University of Southern California, USA
• very active and well-known in the Thai choral scene as a leading choral conductor, clinician, and an adjudicator in and outside Thailand
• dedicates much time and energy in bettering choral standards in Thailand through her initiatives that include various workshops, choral festivals, and camps
• full-time faculty member of Department of Music Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

• Artistic Director at INTERKULTUR, Germany.
• Teacher of Jazz piano and Choir at Yeongnam University in Daegu, South-Korea.
• Founder and conductor of the Daegu Jazz Singers in Daegu, South Korea.
• International adjudicator, clinician-, seminar- and workshop-leader.
• Former conductor and artistic director of student Vocal Jazz Group „Dekoor“ and the Student Symphonic Choir and Orchestra (USKO) of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• Former professor for Choral Conducting at the Conservatory of Alkmaar and Vocal Jazz at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
• Member of INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• member of the World Choir Council
• active music educator promoting music and choral education in Malaysia
• currently lecturer and choir director at the Faculty of Music at the University of Malaysia and the Malaysian Institute of Art
• established the Young Choral Academy in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, a venue for choral lovers and teachers to learn more about vocal and choral education
• regularly invited to be a member of the jury for various international choir festivals
• active Working Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Choral Council, under the auspices of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) and currently Vice-President of the International Kodaly Society, the World Youth and Children Choral Artists’ Association, and the Malaysian Association for Music Education

• President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association
• Artistic Director of the International Bamboo Organ Festival
• Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines
• 1st Prize winner at the American Choral Directors Association National Conducting Competition (Graduate Division)
• received the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan and Master of Music from Yale University

• Founder and Music Director of the internationally known Indonesian Children and Youth Choir "Cordana"
• Chairman of the National Foundation for the Development of Choral Music in Indonesia and Member of Advisory of the Foundation of Church Music – YAMUGER
• International and national juror and clinician
• Has travelled through the provinces in Indonesia training choirs and conductors
• Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council

• Musical director of the "Stellenbosch University Choir" (since 2003), the "Stellenberg Girls Choir" (since 1999) and "Voces Cordis" (since 2022)
• Under his baton the "Stellenbosch University Choir" and the "Stellenberg Girls Choir" have won numerous national and international awards
• Often invited to perform as guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician nationally and internationally
• In 2012 he received a ministerial cultural award (Western Cape Government) for his work with choirs and the youth and a civic honorary award from the City of Cape Town.
• Member of the World Choir Council

• Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of ALYE PARUSA Children’s Choir , which became Champion at the World Choir Games 2016, Champion of the European Choir Games and twice winner of the Grand Prix of Nations 2017 in Riga
• Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
• member of the Presidium of the Federation of Children's and Youth Choirs of Russia
• adjudicator, conductor and requested lecturer