Simon Nicholls is a pianist, teacher and independent researcher who has performed and broadcast internationally. In 2007 he taught a masterclass at the Skryabin Memorial Museum, and in the Skryabin centenary year, 2015, he gave a number of lecture-recitals on Skryabin in Britain and France. He is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Michael Pushkin is Russian language coach for singers at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Previously, he taught Russian literature, history, and language at the University of Birmingham and other universities. He has published articles on the social history of the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia and on the poet Andrei Voznesensky.