Nicholas Oselette is a young emerging composer at the Georgia Institute for Technology in Atlanta, GA, where he currently pursues a major in Physics with an Astrophysics concentration, as well as a minor in Music Technology. He has been writing music for over five years and has had multiple full orchestra, solo, and small ensemble pieces performed. Music composition has been a hobby of his since middle school and to this day,he uses much of his spare time to write or play music.

Originally from Salta (Argentina), Dr. Andrea Pérez Mukdsi earned her PhD in Conducting from the Argentine Catholic University in Buenos Aires. She studied symphony and opera conducting in Florence and Rome (Italy) with Mtro. Gianluigi Gelmetti and Mtro. Piero Bellugi. She also has a Doctorate in Latin American Cultural Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. A frequent guest speaker at the Rialto Theatre and Alif Arabic Center in Atlanta, she teaches Latin American Music and Culture at Georgia State University.

As guest conductor, she works with orchestras in Argentina, Mexico, Italy, and the United States. Her scholarly research focuses on Latin American Soundscapes in the twenty-first century and the African roots of tango. Dr. Perez Mukdsi currently directs Ensemble Warmi (Argentina) and the Latin American Women Composers Project, an initiative focused on rescuing and promoting the works by Latin-American women composers of the twentieth and twenty-first century.