Roger B. Dannenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Art & Music. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. He is internationally known for his research in the field of computer music. His current work includes live music performance with artificial computer musicians, interactive media, high-level languages for sound synthesis, and computer support of curriculum design.

Jonathan Darlington is currently Music Director Emeritus of Vancouver Opera, having completed a highly successful term of almost 20 years as Music Director.  He has led the innovative company in productions ranging from Mozart through Verdi, Puccini and Strauss to Tan Dun and Jake Heggie. He is fluent in several languages and, although born and educated in England, made his home several years ago in Paris. Whether on the concert platform or in the opera house, the list of world-class ensembles that Jonathan Darlington has conducted is impressive.

Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer (Tonmeister) specializing in Classical music. She is a professor for Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal. An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production, she has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls.

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Carol Lynne Krumhansl is Professor of Psychology and a member of the graduate fields of Music and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. The Music Cognition Laboratory, founded in 1980, has studied a wide range of topics. The experiments on tonality, pitch, and harmony helped establish the psychological reality of music-theoretic concepts. Contemporary proposals on melodic structure and musical tension have been tested and extended to music from other cultures and post-tonal music

Viktor Lazarov is a classically trained pianist and a fourth year doctoral candidate in musicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal. His thesis topic is the analysis and teaching of interpretation styles in the performance of baroque music by university-level pianists. Viktor’s thesis explores stylistic, historical and aesthetic issues of interpretation through quantitative methods of performance analysis, an accent- based approach to score interpretation and qualitative descriptions of the creative process and practices by expert musicians.