Vivien Pike is a well-known choral conductor and pedagogue from England. She studied music at the Royal Northern/Royal Manchester College of Music after previously studying medical sciences. She has a wide experience first as soprano soloist and was a former member of the professional group, the BBC Northern Singers.
She formed the City of Sheffields Girls’ Choir in 1979 (now Cantores Noves) and her choirs have won many prizes in national and international competitions. The choirs have toured Italy, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Estonia, Australia, Canada and USA. She is increasingly in demand for choral workshops and adjudicates at festivals both nationally and internationally, most recently as a visiting professor at the Estonian Academy of Music. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in 2005 for her continued work with singers nationally and internationally, and has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Born in Gavle in 1942. Robert Sund first studied at the University of Uppsala psychology, pedagogy, sociology, musicology and English. He studied choral conducting under Eric Ericson at the College of Music in Stockholm. He received numerous commissions, 1.e. as guest conductor of the radio choir in Stockholm and Vienna, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, the Coro Nacional in Cuba, the Grupo de Canto Coral in Buenos Aires and the World Youth Choir in South America, earning him international recognition. Robert Sund has given many courses on choral singing and conducting in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, England, the USA, Venezuela. Argentina and New Zealand, the University of Minnesota and Tacoma. The College of Music Düsseldorf offered him a chair as guest lecturer. His compositions and arrangements of both instrumental and choral works are famous all over the World. He has been adjudicator at numerous international choir competitions, in 1993 he was elected “Conductor of the Year” in Sweden and his choir “Orphei Drängar” was the choir of the Year in 2003.

Boris Tevlin graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1957, continuing his studies as a post-graduate student of Prof. A. Sveshnikov from 1962. He has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatoire since 1959. Today he is the Head of the Department of Choral Conducting. During his career he was given numerous prizes, was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia", and has also received many international prizes. He is the conductor of the famous Music Students' and Youth Choir, an excellent non-professional ensemble. He has won a lot of international prizes at various competitions and festivals with his choir, conducting them in many countries including Bulgaria, China, USA and France.