The Musical Director of the group studied at the G.B.Martini Conservatory of Bologna. He holds a diploma in Pianoforte having studied under Luigi Mostacci, another one in Choral Music and Conducting, under Tito Gotti, and a certificate in Jazz Music, under Ettore Ballotta.  Maestro Turra gives concerts as a soloist and in various groups, and works as an arranger, writing music for instrumental and vocal groups.  He has collaborated as composer, arranger and performer in the making of some recordings at the RAI (Italian National Radio) and in 1989 he obtained the 1st prize in a national competition of composition of children's music (Kinder-oper) at Sasso Marconi.  He is a member of "Euridice", a choral association in Bologna, in which contributes both as a performer and a teaching assistant.

He began to study singing at the Sigismondo d'India Reneissance Music School in Palermo, directed by Wolfgang Fromme and Gabriel Garrido.  In Bologna, having studied under Cristina Miatello and Paride Venturi, he sang in various groups as a soloist.  In 1995 Oreste Palamara and Sergio Turra founded the Sarah Sheppard Ensemble they direct together.  Oreste is the person in charge of choreography, which is sometimes performed with the music.  He is graduate in Foreign Languages and Literature, and took part in various courses of music and concerts for strings playing the cello at Leeds and Doncaster, and to stages of anglosaxon civilization, language and culture in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Bournemouth (England), Edinburgh (Scotland), Warwick RI (USA) and Sydney (Australia).