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Bibiana Vergine is an adjunct instructor at Texas Christian University's School of Music and has served as a visiting lecturer at the University of North Texas's School of Music in 2023-2024. Her research focuses on plainchant from medieval southern Italy, especially hymns, through the examination of extant liturgical manuscripts from the region. Dr. Vergine received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University and her M.M. in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and a B.A. in the liberal arts honors program known as Plan II at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Vergine has presented her research at conferences including those of the International Congress in Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, of the International Musicological Society's study group Cantus Planus, and of the American Musicological Society. She lives in Mansfield, Texas with her husband and three children and occasionally plays violin or organ for Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in North Richland Hills (Fort Worth).

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Lucia Denk is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Princeton University, with a focus in medieval music and plainchant. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Musicology from Dalhousie University and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy with an Emphasis in Injury-Preventive Keyboard Technique from Salem College. She is currently a research assistant for Cantus Database, a digital archive and inventory of liturgical manuscripts and printed sources containing plainchant. She has presented her research at multiple national and international conferences, including the International Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and Cantus Planus. Her interests include plainchant in choir books from medieval and early modern Iberia, medieval Marian devotion, and plainchant from 11th- and 12th-century Germanic regions in Europe, including the music of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Lucia is also the choir director at St. Anthony of Padua Chapel in North Caldwell, NJ (SSPX).

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Clare Bryan teaches music at St. Mary's Academy in St. Mary's, KS. She received an associate degree from St. Mary's College in St. Mary's, KS, a bachelor of Music Education degree from Washburn University in Topeka, KS, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Music Education with an emphasis in choral pedagogy at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She is an avid choral singer, having performed with Topeka Festival Singers, the Syracuse Oratorio Society, Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, and Te Deum in Kansas City. She currently sings with Fidelium Chorus Catholicus in Kansas City, MO, and in the Immaculata church choir in St. Mary's, where she also serves as a substitute director. When she is not singing in choirs, directing, or teaching music, Clare enjoys dancing, specifically English country dance, American contra dance, and Lindy Hop.