Her first experience as a vocal teacher dates back to 1981. From 1985 to 1988, she had a successful career as a most popular Estonian pop singer. She has received training in the Estonian Music Academy with professor Ants Üleoja. Thea Paluoja started vocal work with young soloists and ensembles at Rapla in 1990. In 1992, it was collectively named Rapla Singing Studio. Today in the studio she works with 4 choirs, 4 vocal ensembles and over 20 soloists. Choirs, ensembles as well as soloists led by Thea Paluoja have been successful in competitions both in Estonia and abroad. In Estonian vocal competitions, Thea Paluoja has repeatedly received the title of the best singing instructor and arranger. The Estonian Choral Association gave Thea Paluoja the Conductor (Music Teacher) of the Year title in 2006. She has also received the annual awards of famous Estonian composers Riho Päts and Gustav Ernesaks and has been the grantee of the Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. In 2009 she received the Culture Pearl of the Year title.

Rihards Dubra was born in 1964 in Riga. He studied music first in Jūrmala, after that at the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music, where his instructors in composition were Jāzeps Lipšāns and Ģederts Ramans. In 1989, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory composition class under Ādolfs Skulte (as an elective he learned symphonic conducting under Aleksandrs Viļumanis), and in 1996 earned his master’s degree at the Latvian Academy of Music under Juris Karlsons.

During his studies, he began to teach harmony and composition at the Jūrmala School of Music, where he still works today. His other sphere of work is involved with the organ and liturgy. Rihards Dubra was the organist at the Riga Our Lady of Suffering Church, and, as of 1999, he is the cantor of the Riga St. Mary Magdalene Church.

The most recent works of Rihards Dubra are closely involved with sacred music. All of his works have a spiritual content at their foundation, whether they are vocal or instrumental. The composer has written minimalist, Gregorian, and Renaissance-style music, thinking not just of intonation, exposition, and similar spheres, but firstly the philosophical side. At the same time, the fusion of the means is romantic. His choir works and vocal instrumental compositions are heard at international festivals and concerts. The English public that have heard the composer’s spiritual choir songs in Latvian, have declared them to be Latvian motets.

Dubra received the Latvian Great Music Award in 2003 for his work Te Deum, performed at the XXIII Overall Latvian Song Festival sacred music concert.

Currently he works as a professor at Ventspils Music School

She studied at Kyiv Special Music Boarding School named after M.Lysenko in class of Vladimir Mysko. From 1991 till 1996 she studied choir conducting in class of professor, Honoured Artist of Ukraine O.Tymoshenko, graduated with highest distinction. Since 2000 Yulia Puchko-Kolesnik has worked as Ass. Prof. in Choral conducting at Piotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kyiv. In 2009 she defended a thesis for Candidate of Sciences. In 2014 Yulia became Merited Master of Arts of Ukraine. She is a regular jury member of many international choral competitions, leads workshops and masterclasses in Ukraine and Europe. Since 2009 Yulia Puchko-Kolesnik is art-director and conductor of Chamber girls’ choir of Kyiv Special Music Boarding School “M. Lysenko”. Under her leadership the choir was prizewinner of more than 20 international competitions and become one of the most successful choirs in the country.

He is conductor, composer, pianist. He graduated from Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, Faculty of Conducting and Music Education, where he attended to Professor Janusz Stanecki’s conducting class. Piotr Jańczak is the founder and the conductor of the “Canto” Interschool Choir, the Men’s Choir and the “Canto” Chamber Choir. All of them have been functioning in the Community Centre in Wyrzysk. These groups have won over 60 international and national choir contests. Many musical compositions of Piotr Jańczak are admired all over the world and they even have been played as compulsory during many prestigious international choir contests. These contests took place in: Venice, Rome, Bonn, Riva del Garda, Neuchatel and Helsingborg.

In 2009 Piotr Jańczak took the doctor’s degree in musical art and artistic conducting. Currently, he is an academic worker at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. He also works for the Community Centre in Wyrzysk.

In 2016 he received degree of doctor habilitatus. Composer “Missa Film Stetinum” for symphony orchestra, male choir and solo TI, TII, Baritone, Bass. The premiere took place on 31 January 2016 at the Szczecin Philharmonic. Juror of international and national choral competitions.

He works as an assistant professor at the Music Academy of Karol Lipiński in Wrocław, where he teaches choral conducting Since 2004, he has been working at the State Secondary Music School of Ryszard Bukowski in Wrocław, where he leads the Orchestra, Choir and Vocal Ensemble.

He collaborated as a conductor with the Symphony Orchestra of the Sudeten Philharmonic in Wałbrzych, the Chamber Orchestra of the Music Academy of K. Lipiński in Wrocław, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lower Silesian Philharmonic in Jelenia Góra, the Musical Theater in Lublin. In the years 2006–2008 he was also an assistant conductor at the Wrocław Opera. He collaborated with Polish and foreign artistic agencies, giving concerts with various choral and orchestral ensembles in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Poland in the best concert halls. In the years 2008-2017 he was the artistic director and conductor of the Cantilen Chamber Male Choir.

He also participates as a juror in many international festivals and choir competitions, including Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pons (France).

He is the author of papers presented at scientific conferences on music education and choral music, among others University of Sobral in Brazil. He was the organizer and artistic director of the Wrocław International Choir Festival Vratislavia Sacra, as well as the International Eurochestries Festival Lower Silesia in Świeradów Zdrój, presenting youth orchestral and choir groups. He is the founder and artistic director of the student Symphony Orchestra ArtBel Ensemble, with which he performed a number of concerts, including in Wrocław, Lubiąż, Krefeld (Germany), and Vienna in the prestigious Konzerthaus Hall, Riva del Garda and Montecatini Terme in Italy.