Berta Joncus (PhD) is a reader in musicology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She investigates European music of the long 18th century from diverse perspectives, such as celebrity production, practice research, Abolitionism, the Black Atlantic, and computational musicology. She is a critic for the BBC Music Magazine and a regular guest on BBC Radio 3, co-edits Music & Letters, and is a member of the Handel Institute Council.

Berthold Over is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London (2023-2024) and works as a research associate at Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und -Forschung in Magdeburg. Between 2009 and 2021 he took part in international research projects at the universities of Greifswald and Mainz investigating the 18th-century pasticcio, the mobility and migration of music and musicians in the 18th century, and the Roman cantata of Händel's time. He has discovered previously unknown autographs by Vivaldi, Händel, and Mahler.

Gesa zur Nieden is a professor of musicology at Universität Greifswald, with research interests in 18th-century music theatre, the reception of Richard Wagner since 1945, and music and memory in pluralistic social contexts. After completing her PhD in Paris and Bochum, she worked as a professor in Mainz and Hannover. Since 2010 she has co-led three international research projects: two on the mobility of early modern musicians and one on 18th-century operatic pasticcios.