Franc Kosem has been the principal trumpeter of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra since 2004, and is an associate professor of trumpet and chamber music at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He has been the director of the SiBRASS Society for Brass Chamber Music since its foundation in 2013. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Professor Emeritus Anton Grčar, and undertook further studies at the University of Music in Karlsruhe with Professor Reinhold Friedrich. He has performed as a soloist with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Zadar Chamber Orchestra, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he recorded his first solo CD. He also recorded the CD Reflections with works for trumpet and piano. He has collaborated with the Klangforum Wien Ensemble, the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, the Orchestra Leonore from Pistoia, the Mantua Chamber Music Orchestra, Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of some of the world’s greatest conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Matthias Pintscher, Maxim Vengerov, Marko Letonja and Uroš Lajovic. Kosem is the recipient of the 2012 Prešeren Fund Award.

Dušan Kranjc completed his musical education in Ljubljana and then Germany with Branimir Slokar. For ten years he was principal trombonist of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. He is currently a professor at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana, as well as at the Upper Austria Music School. He lives in Salzburg, where he performs as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Camerata Academica Salzburg, L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra from Linz, Austrian Ensemble of Contemporary Music, and Musica Antiqua Salzburg. He was a member of the Juvavum Brass Quintet from Salzburg. His musical journey has taken him to many music festivals, such as the Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg Festival), Salzburger Adventsingen, Bolzano Festival Bozen, Allegro Vivo Chamber Music Festival, Musikwochen Millstatt (Millstatt Music Weeks), Sandstein und Musik Festival in Dresden, Bluval International Music Festival, Festspiele Haydn (Haydn Festival), Jeunesse Musicales, Zeitgenoessischer Herbst, Musica Festival of Sacred Music in Trento, Ljubljana Festival, Lent Festival, and Gröden Music Weeks. He has performed in Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Russia, Lithuania, France, Germany, Mexico, Taiwan, the USA, Israel, Lebanon, Croatia, Poland and Japan. 

Andreas Martin Hofmeir, one of the best and most versatile instrumentalists in the world, loves to move between genres: he teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, founded the popular band LaBrassBanda, and has received numerous awards both as cabaret performer and classical tuba player. He studied with Dietrich Unkrodt, Michael Lind and Jens Björn-Larsen. In 2005 he won the German Music Competition, and in 2013 he received the ECHO Klassik as »Instrumentalist of the Year«, the first tuba player to win either award. As a soloist he has performed with the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Konzerthaus Berlin Orchestra, among many other notable orchestras. Also unique is his European Tuba Power ensemble, which brings together four of the best tuba players in Europe with a drummer. In addition to his successful classical career, Hofmeir has been performing as a cabaret artist for more than 20 years. As a crossover artist he links the classics, jazz and cabaret in exceptional programmes, in which he is on stage as classical soloist, compère, actor, cabaret artist and jazz musician. In recent years he has also started to work as a conductor with various orchestras. Since October 2022 he has been the artistic director of the Wind Philharmonic Salzburg, and since 2024 the conductor of the Sinfonietta Essenbach. Andreas Martin Hofmeir plays tubas from the Buffet Crampon Group.

After graduating in composition and music theory at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, Nina Šenk went on to pursue postgraduate studies in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden before completing her master’s degree at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich in 2008. She won a Prešeren Fund Prize in 2017. An assistant professor of composition since 2019, she became the youngest (associate) member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) the same year. In 2024 she won the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis, one of the most prestigious composition prizes in contemporary music. In the words of the jury, Nina Šenk is characterised by “a high degree of virtuosity in her approach to form and musical architecture.” Her compositions have been performed at major festivals in Slovenia and abroad and at concerts around the world by orchestras including the Concertgebouworkest (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), (Berliner Symphoniker) Berlin Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles including Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum, Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Scharoun Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Riot Ensemble, the Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta and Slowind.

Radovan Vlatković has travelled the globe performing as a soloist and popularising the horn as a recording artist and teacher. 
He is the recipient of many first prizes, including the Premio Ancona in 1979 and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1983 – the first to be awarded to a horn player for fourteen years.
From 1982 until 1990 he served as principal horn with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (now the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (German Symphony Orchestra Berlin)) under the Maestros Riccardo Chailly and Vladimir Ashkenazy. From 1992 to 1998 he held the post of horn professor at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart. 1998 he became Horn Professor at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Since 2000 he has held the horn chair “Canon” at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
Radovan Vlatković has appeared as soloist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR (Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra), BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (Mozarteum Orchestra), the orchestras of Bern, Basel and Zürich, Orchestre National de Lyon, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra. 
He performs regularly with András Schiff, Heinz Holliger, Elmar Schmid and Klaus Thunemann. Very much in demand as chamber musician, Radovan Vlatković has performed at many festivals, including Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, “December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter” in Moscow, Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman’s Music Festival Kreuth and András Schiff’s Mondsee, Vicenza and Ittingen Festivals.