Albert Sendrey was educated at Herne Bay College, England and Trinity College of Music, London, studying composition with William Lovelock, orchestration with Henry Geehl and conducting with Albert Coates and Sir John Barbirolli. He also attended the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Leipzig Conservatory studying cello with Alexei Kinkulkin (a former pupil of the famous German cellist Julius Klengel), and piano with Robert Teichmuller. 

Born Karl Max Schneefuss, Charles Maxwell attended the prestigious Leipzig Conservatory between 1908 and 1911 studying piano, violin, and composition with Max Reger (1873–1916). He arrived in New York from Bremen Germany in 1911 (citizenship application records show his profession as ‘Music Composer’) where he arranged and orchestrated for many popular music publishers, including Leo Feist Inc. and Waterson, Berlin & Snyder...

Leo Arnaud started his musical education at the Consvatoire National de Musique de Lyon at the age of eleven. He studied percussion, harmony and counterpoint, cello and trombone (Arnaud’s father was a trombonist) and graduated with a general Certificate of Studies in 1916. As a post-graduate he gained many first prizes in these subjects over the years 1917 to 1924. Arnaud moved to Paris in 1917 and at the age of fourteen performed on cello Ave Maria by Charles Gounod...

Maurice Coignard was Georges Garvarentz's closest collaborator for many years. As arranger and orchestrator on over 150 films, he continues to collaborate with France's leading composers. Invited to the “Écrans Sonores” Festival in Biarritz, he has drawn on this experience to write an educational book on the art and craft of composing and orchestrating film music. This unique work was published by Max Echig under the title “La Musique et l’Image”.