Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf M. Jäger (Ph.D. 1993: “Turkish Art Music and its Manuscript Sources from the 19. Century”, Habilitation 1999: “Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Music, ca. 1500 to 1800”) is Professor of Ethnomusicology and European Music History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

He started his academic career in 1999 as visiting professor of Musicology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2000 until 2004 he deputized the chair of Musicology at the WWU Münster and from 2005 to 2009 he was Lecturer and Senior Researcher both at the Musicological Department of WWU Münster (since 2008 Professor) and University of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar. From 2009 to 2011 Prof. Jäger held the Chair of Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music Research, Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Würzburg. He has been lecturing in Göttingen, Istanbul, Mainz, Saarbrücken, Zürich and Athens.

Since 1995 Jäger is head of the Dissertationsmeldestelle (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology) of Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM); 2000 to 2004 he was vice-president of the German national committee of the International Council for Traditional Music; 2002 to 2005 Jäger acted as deputy chair of the study group Ethnomusicology (German Musicological Society). He directed the projects of the GfM in the Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft (ViFa Musik).

In 2005 Prof. Jäger was awarded with the “Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Grant” by the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Since 2015 Prof. Jäger is director of the international and interdisciplinary DFG (German Research Foundation) long-term research project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO): Critical Editions of Music Manuscripts from the Middle East” which is based in Münster, Bonn, and Istanbul.

Herry Rizal Djahwasi holder Phd music performance UPSI, Malaysia. Currently, He is Senior lecturer in music faculty of Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia which specialist in classical guitar, musicology and composition. The journal article publication encompassed Integrated Approach for Classical Guitar Method (author, 2020), Artistic Research: Artistic as Research vs Artistic as Method (author, 2021), An Analysis of Artistic form and Musical Perspective of Romantic Era Music (author, 2021), Writing Artistic Research Report on Western Classical Music Performance: The Important Aspects to Be Voiced Out by A Performer Researcher (author, 2022), Experimental Theatre as a Method to Identify the Early Signs of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (co-author, 2020) and AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE BOWING TECHNIQUES IN PERFORMING BACH CELLO SUITE NO.2 TRANPOSED TO A MINOR FOR DOUBLE BASS (co-author, 2023).

Pooyan Azadeh was born in Iran in 1979. He has been playing the piano since his childhood, directed choirs since he was twelve and can already look back on ten years of university teaching experience. He studied classical European and classical Persian music (BA), as well as piano (MA) at the Teheran Academy of Arts and participated in master classes with Prof. Paul Gulda at the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists in Germany.

His performance as pianist in the concert, “From Orient to Hollywood” in 2010, where he, as the first Persian pianist in Europe, played the second piano concert of Aminollah Hosseins, has earned him special attention among German music circles. As pianist, he received numerous awards and honours at competitions. Persian piano notation (Morteza Mahjoobi's notation) was registered as a National Cultural Heritage of Iran (UNESCO) in 2013 by Pooyan Azadeh.

Since 2007, he has been a full PhD scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He worked as Asst. Professor at Martin-Luther-University Musical Institute in Germany. He got his doctoral degree from the same university, Martin Luther University in Germany, with great honor "Magna Cum Laude" in January 2015.

In 2015 Dr. Azadeh founded the first professional piano academy in Iran, Pooyan Piano Institute and since 2018 he founded the first music and art university in east of Iran, Pooyan Art University.

As a first piano professor in Iran with a PhD in music he has taught classical piano at the music faculty of Tehran University of Art since 2015.

Recently his composition for piano is published as a book with the title “Persian Songs & Dances for Piano” by “Bellmann Music Publication” in Germany and his new book  with the title "Playing Scales fluently, New Method of Playing Scales Easily on the Piano" was published by Hofmeister Music Publication in Germany in 2023.

For the first time he organized and established a bachelor major degree for “Persian Piano Music Performance” for Iranian higher education at Pooyan Art University in 2020.

Dr. Pooyan Azadeh is founder of "Intercultural Piano Pedagogy Project" which is an international piano project at Festival Young Artists Bayreuth in Germany since 2010.

Born in Bulgaria in 1987, the artist completed his primary and secondary education at Uludağ University State Conservatory, his undergraduate and graduate studies at Anadolu University State Conservatory, and the Proficiency in Art (Dr) Program and Pedagogical Formation Program at Istanbul University. She worked with Azerbaijan State Artist Prof. Zöhrab ADIGÜZELZADE, Mehmet OKANŞAR, Gülsin ONAY, Prof. Milena MOLLOVA, Gabriele LEPORATTI, Assoc. Benjamin MORITZ, Prof. Andrej TATARSKY and Mikhail LIDSKY. She has trained students in prestigious institutions of our country, and has worked in many festivals, projects and concerts. Since 2010; she gave lectures at Anadolu University State Conservatory, Uludag University Faculty of Education Music Department, Marmara University GSF Music Department, Istanbul University State Conservatory Music Department, Mımar Sınan Fine Arts University, Music Department of Nişantaşı University Conservatory and Art and Design Faculty Music Department, Bahcesehir University Conservatory Music Departmant.

The researcher works as an Assistant Professor at Cairo University in the Faculty of Specific Education, Department of Music Education, Egypt. She obtained her Ph.D. in Music Education with a specialization in piano with distinction and honors and a recommendation for exchange between universities in 2017 from the same university.
The researcher actively participated in published scientific research, supervised academic theses, and was engaged in conferences. She published a book derived from her doctoral thesis, published by German Noor Publishing. Additionally, she received funding for research projects from the Academy of Scientific Research and projects funded by Cairo University. She is also involved in community projects and educational development in Egypt and Oman.
The researcher possesses skills and expertise gained through numerous courses in scientific research, technology, statistical analysis, and academic and administrative quality. She organized workshops in the field of music education and piano, delivered lectures on the use of distance learning applications in university teaching as a Blackboard Portal, and contributed to academic quality in higher education. Furthermore, she has administrative university experience by working as a member of various committees.
As a member of professional associations, the researcher belongs to the International Society for Music Education (ISME) founded in Belgium and headquartered in the United States of America. She is also a member of the Omani Association for Quality in Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman.
The researcher has received several awards, certificates of appreciation, and honors from various entities. She has been working as a Music Trainer of Piano Specialization at Sultan Qaboos University in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Music and Musicology, Sultanate of Oman since 2021.

Jinho Kim is a professor of musicology and musical composition of the
Department of Music at Andong National University, in South Korea.
He studied with Dr. Marc Battier at Paris-Sorbonne University, also
known as Paris IV, where he earned a doctorate in musicology. He has
written several Korean articles and books on musicology, and composed
contemporary music. His recent publications include <Mozart Homo sapiens>
(Galmuri, Seoul, 2017) and <Timbre of Attraction> (Galmuri, 2014). His
recearch interests included the cognitive model of musical composition,
the evolutionary psychology applied to musicology, socio-psychology on
the way how different people listen to the music, etc. 

I am a music enthusiast who enjoys working with children and young adults. My research interests include Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Diaspora studies and issues of Identity. My most recent project was the production of Jungle Book The Musical, a musical theatre production with Rohingya refugee children. I am currently working on developing an EdTech platform powered by AI technology to provide postgraduate and undergraduate support to students.

Beisembayeva Altynai Abdikhanovna is a graduate of the Alma Ata Kurmangazy State Conservatory. In 1989, she graduated from the Faculty of Kazakh Folk Instruments with a degree in Dombra with the qualification of concert performer, teacher. She began her professional career in 1988 as an artist of the Kurmangazy Orchestra. In 1990, she worked as a teacher of dombra at the Music school No. 1 in Almaty. In 1999, she entered the full-time postgraduate department of the ASU named after Abai. In 2004 defended her PhD thesis on "Patriotic education of high school students by means of the Kazakh heroic epic", specialty 13.00.01 - General pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education, ethnopedagogy. In 2007 By the decision of the Committee for Supervision and Certification in the field of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the specialty of pedagogy. In 2017, she graduated from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylai Khan. In 2021 She was awarded for the preparation of the Prometheus participating team in the All-Russian International Student Olympiad "Pedagogy: Effective educational practices".The developer of the educational program in the field of personnel training 6B01-7M01-8D01. Since 2022, he has been an Academician of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Kazakhstan. In 2023 Awarded the title of KR Kurmetti Azamaty. Starting in 2023. He is a leading researcher at the scientific research project IRN AR 19678793 on the topic "Training competitive music teachers in the context of modernization and renewal of the music teacher education system" with grant funding from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Michael Frishkopf is Professor of Music at the University of Alberta and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology. He earned his BS in Mathematics from Yale University (1984), an MA in Ethnomusicology from Tufts University (1989), and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999). His research focuses on Arab and Islamic music, sound and ritual performance, the relationship between music and religion, consciousness studies, machine learning, as well as virtual and augmented reality applications in cross-cultural music research. In addition to his academic work, he is an active performer on piano, West African drums, and Middle Eastern wind instruments. With over a hundred publications indexed in Google Scholar and ResearchGate, he is recognized as one of the leading figures in international ethnomusicology.

Margarethe Adams specializes in music, media, and popular culture in Central Asia, and has conducted ethnographic research in Kazakhstan, northwest China, and Mongolia. Her recent monograph, Steppe Dreams: Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan (Central Eurasia in Context, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), investigates temporality and politics in postsocialist culture. Other publications appear in The Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Collaborative Anthropologies and The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Her current research examines the role of sound and music in popular forms of religion and spirituality, including Muslim pilgrimage, religious healing, and Korean evangelical practices in Kazakhstan. Adams recently organized the Sound & Secularity Symposium with music historian and theorist colleague August Sheehy. Adams’s current teaching interests include developing and offering classes that intersect with the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement and antiracist teaching, particularly in teaching music history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century America through the lens of race. Her recent course offerings include MUS 537 Gender and Race in Ethnography; and MUS 536 Music, Belief, and the Black Experience in the United States. Her undergraduate classes include Music and Islam; and Music in China; and she is currently developing a course that charts the diversity and migrations of the U.S. population through popular music studies, including the Blues, Gospel, Motown, Native American popular music, and the Texas-Mexican conjunto. As a faculty affiliate in Stony Brook's History Department and Asian and Asian-American Studies, she is also developing historical ethnomusicology courses related to Medieval Muslim Spain and the rise of Islam. These include a previously taught graduate seminar, Music and Belief on the Silk Road, and a 300-level undergraduate course titled Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Music Histories across the Mediterranean. Her education: B.A. (Russian and Soviet Area Studies), Middlebury College; M.M. and Ph.D. (Musicology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Prof.Dr. Leonardo Borne is a music educator, researcher, and flutist, recognized for his extensive work across music pedagogy, childhood development, and Latin American musical and educational practices. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music – Composition from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Music Education from the UFRGS Graduate Program in Education, and a PhD in Music – Music Education from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He has also completed advanced studies in Music Therapy at Faculdades EST. His professional experience spans music therapy, early childhood education, special education and inclusion, child development, non-formal learning contexts, teacher training and continuing education, distance education, and university pedagogy. He currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC – Sobral Campus), where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of music education, assessment, music theory, aural skills, solfege, and group singing, while also leading extension projects. Deeply engaged with Latin American musical and educational discourse, his scholarly work has been presented and published nationally and internationally, including in prominent forums such as FLADEM, ISME, ABEM, and ANPPOM. Borne is the leader of the MusA (Música e Ação) Research Group at UFC–Sobral, a member of the EDUC AMUS Research Group at UFRGS, and an active participant in the Seminario Permanente de Innovación Pedagógica at UNAM–Acatlán. He has also served as the Ceará state representative on the FLADEM-Brazil board (2017–2019) and as Chair of the Academic Committee of Formedem-México (2016–2018). His academic trajectory reflects a solid engagement with music education, child development, Latin American music cultures, music therapy foundations, and pedagogical innovation in higher education.