Luisa Vilar Payá received her Ph.D. in Music and Letters from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. in Musicology from Columbia University. Through her publications, conferences and lecturing she has been a catalyst for the development of Mexican musicology. Since 2004 she has been a member of the prestigious Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Currently she is Dean of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico.

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Alejandro Planchart is a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Santa Barbara.. One of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Dufay, he is renowned for his studies of music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Born in Caracas, Planchart moved to the United States to study at Yale where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Music. He earned the Ph.D. at Harvard University with a dissertation on the medieval English manuscript source, the Winchester Troper. Dr. Planchart taught at Yale for several years and founded the Cappella Cordina, an early music ensemble. In 2006 Professor Planchart was awarded the Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music.

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