Toru Takemitsu, born in 1930 in Tokyo, and thus a contemporary of the avant-garde generation of Berio, Boulez and Stockhausen, was first and foremost a remarkable 'self-made man', open to all forms of music and to engaging with other arts, above all painting.

Toshio Hosokawa was born in Hiroshima in 1955. Between 1976 and 1986, he lived in Germany, studying music composition with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber. In 1980, Hosokawa participated for the first time in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. Since then, his career developed mainly in Europe and Japan, gaining international worldwide reputation as one of the leading Japanese composers.

Marco Del Greco is regarded as one of the most important classical guitar player of his generation. Born in Rome in 1982, he received his musical training in the class of Carlo Carfagna at the Conservatorio 'S. Cecilia' in Rome, where he graduated with 'menzione d’onore'. He won numerous prizes in international guitar competitions. Marco Del Greco is currently guitar professor at the Conservatorio 'Fausto Torrefranca' in Vibo Valentia (Italy), and Artistic Director of the Rome Guitar Festival.