Ms. Lazăr is the General Manager of Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, since 2003. She is also a well-known and beloved Romanian actress, having acted on the Odeon stage since 1969.

With a repertoire that ranges from Baroque to modern music, pianist Andrei Licareţ has performed in a wide range of concerts throughout Europe and the U.S., and has been awarded numerous international prizes.

Filmmaker and screenwriter Sergiu Lupşe (b. 1980) graduated in Film and Photography at the Art University in Cluj and has a Masters Degree in Experimental Film from the National University of Art in Bucharest. His portfolio includes advertising projects for print and television, 11 short films, some screened at festivals in Europe and the US.

Romanian-born Sherban Lupu studied at the Guildhall School of Music where he took master classes under legendary violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng, and Nathan Milstein, and he has won prizes in numerous competitions.

Oliver Lustig (b. 1926, Soimeni), a distinguished Romanian writer and journalist, dedicated most of his career to the subject of the Holocaust. He is a Birkenau-Auschwitz and Dachau Holocaust survivor.

Winner of Remember Enescu International Competition, The Tillett Trust and a Finalist of Young Concert Artist Trust, Vlad has performed concerti and recitals that have included appearances at major venues in Europe (Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, The Sage Gateshead, Basilica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Salle Flagey in Bruxelles, Kulturhaus Helferei in Zurich) as well as Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center - New York and The Athenæum in his native Romania.

At the end of the nineties Aurel Ionita formed the group Rom Bengale in Bucharest, which eventually evolved into Mahala Rai Banda, most of whose members had previously making a living by playing weddings, as “lautari.”

Cosmin Manolescu is a choreographer, performer and cultural manager based in Bucharest. He is executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation (the new name of the former Project DCM Foundation).

Anamaria Marinca trained at the University of Fine Arts, Music and Drama George Enescu, in Romania. Her work for the theatre has included productions in the UK for "Complicite" (London) - and Anamaria won the award for "Best Actress of the Year" at the Young Actor Gala in Mangalia in 2000. She won in 2005 a "Best Actress" BAFTA for her performance in the British Channel 4 TV mini-series "Sex Traffic" by David Yates.