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Katie Thomas is a choral conductor from Wales and since 2023 the choirmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. She is also the conductor and artistic director of the Gothenburg Symphony Vocal Ensemble. Previous engagements include nine years as a voice coach for the BBC Chorus, assignments as a guest choirmaster and conductor with the BBC Singers, MDR Rundfunkchor, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and the Junior Royal College of Music, as well as a guest lecturer in choral conducting and director of the chamber choir at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Gothenburg. She has been a teacher of choral conducting techniques at the Association of British Choral Directors and a judge at choral festivals worldwide within the organization Interkultur. As a professional soprano, Katie Thomas has been engaged with the UK's leading choirs, such as the Monteverdi Choir under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Polyphony and the Academy of Ancient Music. She has appeared in major concert venues in Europe and the USA, including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Vienna and Carnegie Hall in New York. Together with London Voices, she has recorded several soundtracks for films and video games, often at the renowned Abbey Road Studios, as well as concerts for both television and radio. Katie Thomas is a graduate of Cardiff University and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2020, she was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in the United Kingdom for outstanding contributions to professional music and significant achievements in conducting and choral music.

The Gothenburg Symphony Vocal Ensemble (GSVE) was formed in 2016 and consists of 12 professional singers. The ensemble works both as part of the Gothenburg Symphony Choir in major symphonic works performed together with the Gothenburg Symphony, and as an independent ensemble under the direction of Katie Thomas. GSVE is a group of experienced and versatile singers, who perform varied programs and explore a wide repertoire, from medieval music to newly commissioned works. The ensemble has previously collaborated with, among others, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Barockakademin Göteborgs Symfoniker and performs regular vocal programs both in Gothenburg's Concert Hall and around the Västra Götaland region.

Juan Zurutuza is a pianist trained in Mexico and the Netherlands. He studied with Rian de Waal at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague from 2001-2008. He has played solo and chamber music concerts with members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Scandinavia, Europe and North America. Since 2022, Juan Zurutuza is pianist in the Gothenburg Symphony. He is currently studying with pianist Robert Durso, thanks to several scholarships received from Göteborgs Symfoniker Friend Association, the Marianne & Ary Paley Scholarship Fund, the Eduard Magnus Music Fund and the Mary von Sydows Donation Fund.

Danish Nancy Dalberg grew up in a manor house on Funen. Her father was the successful pharmacist and industrialist Christian D A Hansen. She started playing the piano early and after her marriage in 1901 and settling in Copenhagen, she continued piano studies with Ove Christensen. A promising career as a concert pianist, however, was cut short by a chronic tendinitis. From 1909-11 she studied music theory and composition with Johan Svendsen and from 1913 with Carl Nielsen. This, incidentally, came to play a big role in her life. Among other things, she was entrusted to instrument parts of Nielsen's Aladdin and Fynsk forår. He would also appear in one of the parts at the premiere of her first string quartet, which took place in her home in 1914. He also premiered in 1915 and 1918 three of her orchestral works, Scherzo for String Orchestra op. 6, Symphony in C sharp minor (1917) and Capriccio for orchestra (1918). Nancy Dalberg's output is not large. In addition to the aforementioned orchestral works and a few more, she wrote about fifty songs, three of which are for voice and orchestra. Among the latter can be mentioned Marianne Sinclair's song, one of the pieces for a planned opera based on Gösta Berling's saga. Unfortunately, Selma Lagerlöf had already promised away the opera rights, so that venture had to be shelved. Among the chamber music works are a number of smaller works for violin and piano as well as cello and piano. But it is above all the three string quartets that have made themselves known, not least after an excellent recording in 2019. The third string quartet was never published during Dalberg's lifetime, although in 1946 she attempted to pay for the printing herself. However, it dragged on over time. Only in 1950, a year after her death, was the work published. It was dedicated to teacher and friend Carl Nielsen. He died in 1931, but had hopefully listened to the work at the performances in 1928 and 1929. Yngve Bernhardsson

Justyna Jara began playing the violin when she was seven years old. After winning a prize at a competition for young violinists in Gdansk, Poland, she continued her studies in Warsaw with Miroslaw Lawrynowicz. During her studies, she won prizes in several violin competitions. She also recorded Wieniawski's Etudes Caprices Op 10 and 18 for the Acte Préalable record label as a tribute to her teacher. She studied for a year at the Chopin University in Warsaw and then at Juilliard in New York, working with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, often as assistant concertmaster. In 2014, she was appointed second concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.