Grammy-nominated music producer Tom Ammermann began his journey as a musician and music producer in the 1980s. At the turn of the Century, he pioneered the very first surround mixes for headphones, which established his brand Headphone Surround 3D.
Grammy-nominated music producer Tom Ammermann began his journey as a musician and music producer in the 1980s.
At the turn of the 21st Century, Tom produced unique surround audio productions for music and film projects as well as pioneering the very first surround mixes for headphones, which quickly established his brand Headphone Surround 3D and reputation as an immersive audio producer.
Currently, Tom is working on developing new technologies in spatial audio whilst offering workshops and presentations at high-profile international audio conferences.
Some References: Terminator 2, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expendables I-III, 5th Element and Kraftwerk 3D.
Zeina Azouqah Bilgili is a Jordanian-born German composer residing in Berlin. She specialises in arrangements and original compositions for intercultural chamber music ensembles. In addition to that, she scores various short and medium-length films.
is a Jordanian-born German composer residing in Berlin who started her path in music as a keyboard and piano player in bands, theatres and sufi poetry groups. She specialises in arrangements and original compositions for intercultural chamber music ensembles, some of which have been performed at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Sawy Culture Wheel in Cairo, the Cairo Opera House and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Since moving to Germany 10 years ago she completed her studies in Film and Animation in Nuremberg and stepped into the film music world, scoring various short and medium-length films.
In addition to her work as a media composer, she is well as establishing herself as an orchestrator and songwriter, collaborating with other songwriters in genre-bending music.
Her album of songs under the artist name “Zazuka” is set for release in fall of 2019.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns and for over 20 films.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, the international remake of Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin.
They are members of the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, Swiss Film Academy, European Film Academy, Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns and for over 20 films.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, the international remake of Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin.
They are members of the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, Swiss Film Academy, European Film Academy, Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns and for over 20 films.
Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, the international remake of Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin.
They are members of the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, Swiss Film Academy, European Film Academy, Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
Marcel Barion, born 1985 in Siegen, Germany, began filmmaking as a schoolkid. After graduating he produced a no budget but full length fantasy film called "Aloryon" and studied literature, culture, media and art history.
Marcel Barion, born 1985 in Siegen, Germany, began filmmaking as a schoolkid, mostly inspired by international genre cinema. After graduating he produced a no budget but full length fantasy film called Aloryon and studied literature, culture, media and art history. Since his master's degree he has been working as a university lecturer in cultural studies with focus on pictures and film. Das letzte Land is his first film aimed for a public audience.
Marcel Becker-Neu was born in 1990 in Wuppertal, Germany. Together with his colleague Marc Schießer, Becker-Neu 2016 founded the film production company Outside the Club, which had its first big hit with the series "Wishlist".
Marcel Becker-Neu was born in 1990 in Wuppertal, Germany. In 2013 he began studying film and sound at the Fachhochschule Dortmund. Together with his colleague Marc Schießer, Becker-Neu 2016 founded the film production company Outside the Club, which had its first big hit with the series Wishlist. Marcel composed and produced the music for all joint film projects. Previous experience has been in the field of advertising, documentary film, in various series and in classical film, where he composed in many different genres.
The Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) is a modern proponent of the prepared piano. For their collaborative score for "Lion", Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran were nominated for the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the Oscars.
The Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) is regarded as one of the most remarkable modern proponents of the prepared piano.
His most recent scores for film include the music for series such as Patrick Melrose (Edward Berger), The Name of the Rose (Giacomo Battiato) and Dublin Murders (Saul Dibb a.o.) as well as for feature films like Adrift (Baltasar Kormákur), What doesn’t kill us (Sandra Nettelbeck), Gut gegen Nordwind (Vanessa Jopp), Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras) and Summerland (Jessica Swale).
For their collaborative score for Lion (directed by Garth Davis), Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran were nominated for the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the Oscars. In 2018, Volker Bertelmann was chosen to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Dagmar Niehage was a speaker at the first SoundTrack_Cologne and later as a project manager involved in the further development of the congress. In 2006 she founded her own production company 'dagstarfilm'.
Dagmar was a speaker at the very first Soundtrack_Cologne and subsequently helped the Congress to develop and to grow as Project Manager. She is also Producer/Owner of the Cologne-based production company dagstarfilm.
With ten years experience in the industry, holding positions as producer, production manager, postproduction supervisor, Dagmar Niehage started her own production company dagstarfilm in 2006, which produces children-, teen- and family features as well as high-quality international films and documentaries with a special emphasis on young European cinema.
With dagstar*film she produced and co-produced ten feature films and documentaries. Credits include the road-movie Low Lights (Germany/Lithuania), which participated at more than 30 festivals and which was awarded a Silver Crane for Best Film in Lithuania 2009.
In July 2012 the German family movie Pattys Catchup (aka Pommes essen) was released in German cinemas by FarbfilmVerleih, Free-TV premiere in 2014 at ARD.
Dagmar Blume-Niehage was also responsible as producer for the documentary Stumbling Block released in Germany 2008 and for the documentary Parallax Sounds (Troika/Cineparalleli, funded by Filmstiftung NRW) released in 2013.
The German-Lithuanian documentary Liebe Oma, guten Tag (funded by Film-and Medienstiftung NRW, FFA, Lithuanian Filmcenter) successfully screened at the Nordische Filmtage Luebeck, Dokfest Kassel and other festivals.
In post-production is the children bestseller adaptation My Life As Lotta (aka Mein Lotta-Leben) (funded by Film- and Medienstiftung NRW, FFF Bayern, FFA, BKM, DFFF) distributed by Wild Bunch Germany. Cinema Release 29 August 2019.
Dagmar Blume-Niehage is member of the German Film Academy and member of the Filmbuero NW.
Helge Borgarts is a freelance composer and producer. He is head of program for games music at SoundTrack_Cologne. His references include work for the developers Crytek, Deck13, Spitfire Audio, Steinberg, Stratotainment and phenomedia.
Helge Borgarts is a German music composer and producer for film, television and games. He started his career withBlue Byte Software, the developer and publisher of famous games likethe Settlers,Battle IsleorExtreme Assault. From 2006 to 2013 he was CEO ofphenomedia publishing gmbh, one of Germany’s best-known developers and publishers of computer- and videogames, famous for the brandMoorhuhn. During that time he produced and/or scored more than 25 games for all important gaming platforms.
Since 2013 he works as a freelancing composer, producer and lecturer. Since 2011 Helge is the program manager for games music at the renowned festival and conference for music in film and mediaSoundtrack_Cologne. He was speaker at events like theTransatlantyk 2013 Poznan International Film and Music Festivalor theAustria Film Music Day, is a regular lecturer at German universities and produces video games music concerts, e.g. with the Young Classic Sound Orchestra or the WDR Funkhausorchester.
Working in the media industry for more than 15 years, he was involved in several projects as a composer and producer. He wrote music for films like theSilver Screen Awardwinning movieSeven from Revanth Korukonda and for television documentaries likeEveryday life in space - life on the ISSorThe Ghost Hunters. Helge scored trailers for developers and publishers likeCrytek,StratotainmentorHiggs Games. He wrote and scored the orchestral soundtrack for the video gameJade Rousseau – The Final Revelations and produced and contributed music to the gameTiger & Chicken, which was awarded as Best Mobile Core Game at theGerman Developer Awards. He also scored the latest game of that brandCrazy Chicken Strikes Backand provided the music for the gamesBring Them HomeandTransroad, the latter developed by the award-winning team fromDeck13. With his partner Thomas Stanger he founded the brandBowsToHymnswhich contributed music for companies likeSpitfire Audio,Warner/Chappell Music Production,SPM Music Group,Trailer Brigade, Orchestral ToolsorSteinberg. Their latest productions was the highly acclaimed gameThe Surge – The Good, the Bad and the Augmented.
Anja Braune has been head of online licensing at GEMA since September 2015. She began her professional career in 2001 with the German-French television channel ARTE.
Anja Braune has been head of online licensing at GEMA since September 2015. Previously, she worked as a syndicator and authorized signatory for national and international film and media companies. She began her professional career in 2001 with the German-French television channel ARTE.
Dennis Braunsdorf is a music composer and technologist. He is specialised in electroacoustic compositions for media, in particular for Hollywood movie trailers, films and commercials, where he has established a list of credits in the last years.
Dennis Braunsdorf is a music composer and technologist. He is the founder of Braunsdorf Music and member of ‘The Solos’. Dennis is specialised in electroacoustic compositions for media, in particular for Hollywood movie trailers. In the last years he has established a list of credits, including compositions for Hollywood movie trailers, films, and commercials.
Dennis academic path started in 2009 at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (HKU). In 2013, he archived a Bachelor of Music with honours and in 2015 a Master of Music degree at the HKU. Since 2014 he is a PhD candidate at the Bournemouth University in England. Dennis thesis scrutinises the impact of his newly designed virtual e-guitar instrument called ‘Artefakt’ upon compositional processes.
Wout Bremer (1958) is a composer and AI specialist. He studied composition at the conservatory of Groningen and holds a MSc degree in biology (genetics). With his bundled knowledge, he created "Aimée", a virtual AI composer.
Wout Bremer (1958) is a composer and AI specialist.
He is the creator of Aimée, a virtual artificially intelligent composer. Wout studied composition at the conservatory of Groningen in the Netherlands and holds a MSc degree in biology (genetics) from the University of Groningen. He wrote music for theatre productions. For many years, Wout worked on the development of an expert system for computer-assisted composition. Later he combined these efforts with a set of genetic algorithms to form Aimée. In his iOS app YouCompose, Aimée came to live as an assistant composer to its users. But Aimée has ambitions of her own to compose sonatas, fugues or even complete symphonies…
Christian Bruhn studied composition, piano and clarinet and was in various jazz-combos in the following years, before turning to schlager music and collaborating with well-known artists like Katja Ebstein and Drafi Deutscher.
At the age of 4, Christian Bruhn started playing the piano. As a student he founded a band and later studied composition, piano and clarinet. Professor Ernst Gernot Klussmann, to whom Christian was allowed to play his early song creations in lessons, predicted him to have a career in schlager music. In the following years he was a pianist in various jazz combos on the road.
At the Luxembourg Schlagerfestival he got to know the Berlin publisher Peter Meisel in 1959. The result was a close cooperation, the two founded the Hansa music production and in the following years became the most successful German independent producer team. Twice Christian Bruhn succeeded in winning the legendary German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden: 1962 with Zwei kleine Italiener (Cornelia Froboess) and 1964 with Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht (Siw Malmqvist).
Christian Bruhn has worked with several well-known artists over the years, such as for Katja Ebstein, Mireille Mathieu or Drafi Deutscher, for whom he wrote the everlasting Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht.
In 1981, the busy composer became a member of the supervisory board of GEMA; in 2002 he was made professor and president of CISAC, the umbrella organization of all copyright societies.
Enrico Delamboye is a Dutch conductor and pianist. He worked for many years as Chief Conductor for the Theater Koblenz and did guest performances for the Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Theater Basel and many more.
Dutch conductor and pianist Enrico Delamboye was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. He studied piano with Joop Celis and orchestral conducting with Jan Stulen at the Conservatorium Maastricht (Netherlands). Enrico Delamboye made his debut as an opera conductor in May, 1999 during the Internationale Maifestspiele at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden with Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
Between 2000 and 2009 he was engaged as Principal Guest Conductor at the Wiesbaden State Theater, Mainz State Theater, Wuppertal Opera and the Cologne Opera. From 2007-2014 he was professor for orchestral conducting at the Conservatorium Maastricht. Since 2009, he has been Chief Conductor of Theater Koblenz. Since 2018 he is First Guest Conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester (Radio Orchestra Cologne).
Enrico Delamboye was invited as a guest conductor to the Komische Oper/Berlin, Theater Basel, Theater Bonn, Teatro Sao Carlos/Lisbon and the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.
He conducted symphonic concerts with the Berliner Symphoniker, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Beethovenhalle-Orchester Bonn, Südwestfälische Philharmonie, Württembergische Philharmonie, Filharmonija Artur Rubinstein Lodz (Poland), Zagrebacka Fiharmonija (Croatia), Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (Thailand), Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (France) and Philharmonie Zuidnederland (Netherlands).
His diverse repertoire includes Baroque (Monteverdi), the classic period (Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann) via the romantic core-repertoire (Bellini, Berg, Donizetti, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Verdi) up to contemporary pieces (Simons, Trojahn, Berio, Adams) in symphonic and operatic style.
Klaus Doldinger is not only the composer of Germany's most famous main title theme music for the cult series Tatort - he has also become an international star of the film music scene writing music for "Das Boot" and "The Neverending Story".
Klaus Doldinger was born in Berlin on 12 May 1936 during the interwar period and grew up in Vienna during the Second World War. He is not only the composer of Germany's most famous main title theme music for the cult series Tatort - he has also become an international star of the film music scene with global successes writing music for Das Boot and The Neverending Story. His music also adorns films such as Peter in Magicland and Der Herr der Wüste (‘The Lord of the Desert’), series such as Polizeiruf 110 (‘Police Call 110’), Großstadtrevier, Pfarrer Braun (‘Father Braun’), Liebling Kreuzberg (‘Darling Kreuzberg’), A Case for Two, The Commissar, Wolfs Revier and a staggering 34 Tatort (The longest running German crime series) episodes. He also composed music for advertising for major companies.
His long career has earned the saxophonist numerous awards, such as the Grimme Award, the Bavarian Television Award, the Golden Camera, the Echo for his life's work and the Echo Jazz as well as the German Federal Cross of Merit, the latter for ‘important and unmistakable impulses that he has given to German cultural life’. Klaus Doldinger will now be awarded the SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award on the 31st of August, 2019.
Yati Durant is a U.S. born composer, lecturer, trumpeter and conductor currently based in the UK. He is Director of the "European Education Alliance for Music and Sound in Media" at "Soundtrack Cologne" and "Festival International du Film d’Aubagne".
Yati Durant is a U.S. born composer, lecturer, trumpeter and conductor currently based in the UK.
His musical background began with composition and jazz music from the age of 7. He was founding member of the experimental jazz ensemble Honey Junkie and The Yati Durant Project Band in the 1990s. He studied with Portland trumpeter (and Grammy winner) Thara Memory before moving to New York, where he began a successful stint as a TV and film music composer.
Yati holds a Diploma and prestigious Konzertexam Meisterklasse in composition from the Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer at the State Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Germany, as well as a Diploma in Electronic Composition under Hans Ulrich Humpert. He has also studied with George Crumb, Philip Lasser, Narcis Bonet, Lee Konitz and conducting with Jonathan Brett.
His compositions and films have received many prizes from International festivals, including a 3rd Pl. Panorama Public Prize at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival for Erika Rabau – Der Puck von Berlin and a BAFA National Commerce Film Award nomination for the WDR/ARD documentary Ein Klavier geht um die Welt. He is a finalist of the 2009 Concorso Giovani Musicisti Europei in Aosta, Italy with his score to C. Chaplin’s The Vagabond. His contemporary compositions have been commissioned and performed in New York, Seattle, Berlin, Edinburgh, Cologne and Sao Paolo, released on CD and DVD by Film Dienst/Normal Records, Filmmuseum München and he remains an active performer of jazz, with regular appearances and recordings throughout Europe and USA. His TV and Film credits include work for WDR, ARD, HBO, MTV, Disney and many others.
Since 2010, Yati is Lecturer and Programme Director of MSc Composition for Screen at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh and Artistic Director of the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. He is Director of the European Education Alliance for Music and Sound in Media (EEAMS) at Soundtrack Cologne and Festival International du Film d’Aubagne.
Marc du Moulin is Secretary General at the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), a network of more than 56 organisations working together to defend and promote the rights of composers and songwriters in Europe.
Marc du Moulin is Secretary General at the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), a network of more than 56 organisations working together to defend and promote the rights of composers and songwriters in Europe. Marc has an in-depth understanding of the functioning of the creative sector and an extensive experience in European Affairs. He previously worked for the European Film Agency Directors, the Motion Picture Association, the European Commission (DG CNECT) and for Eurocinema. Marc holds a Masters in UK-EU-US Copyright Law from King’s College London and a Masters in European Studies from the Catholic Institute of Paris.
André Feldhaus is a composer and has already composed the music for more than 120 television and cinema productions, for example for "4 Kings", "The Hands of my Mother", "North Beach", or "Crime Scene".
Born in Münster, André Feldhaus began his musical education on the piano. In the 1990s he founded the German punk band Mother‘s Ruin, an outfit which toured and released singles and albums. During his studies in Liverpool and Bremen he started composing music for films and formed collaborations with up and coming directors. After his graduation in German Studies and Film Studies he started to work as a freelance composer. Since then, he has contributed to the scores for nearly 120 films, including major television work and cinema releases, among them 4 Könige which won the Deutsche Filmpreis in Bronze in 2016, Die Hände meiner Mutter, Nordstrand and the popular German television series Tatort.
Milena Fessmann is moderator of several national events and panels on the subject of music and she conducts seminars on "Music Supervising" at the DFFB. There she also sat on the director and producer selection committee.
Since 1991, Milena Fessmann has worked as a full-time DJ (2001-2014 Radio Eins After Work Lounge, Trompete/Berlin, European Film Awards 2015 etc.) and has worked for various radio stations. Since 1997 she works for Radio Eins/RBB and her own weekly show called Free Falling.
In 1989 she founded CINESONG. She is moderator of several national events and panels such as the Cartoon Movie Award/Postdam 2002-2008, Reeperbahn-Festival 2014-18, c/o pop Cologne 2014-2018 and many more. Milena Fessmann teaches music supervising and copyright clearing at film schools such as DFFB Berlin and is advisory board member of the World Soundtrack Academy. She founded a film production company called Sugar Town Filmproduction Gmbh & Co. KG in 2011. The first project is The Potential of Noise - Conny Plank by Stephan Plank and Reto Caduff. She is executive-producer of When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit, directed by award winning director Caroline Link and is co-producer on Evaluation, Girl made of Dust, Director: Hiam Abbass, Prince of swans and a few more.
Tobias Fleig has been working in film sound since 1997 and since then has operated his own recording studio in Cologne. He has worked on more than 100 feature films as a sound designer or mixed sound engineer, including 'Die Fälscher' and 'Lebanon'.
Tobias Fleig has been working in film sound since 1997 and has been self-employed since 1999. Since then he runs his own recording studio in Cologne and since 2014 also a cinema studio in Berlin. He has worked on more than 100 feature-length films as a sound designer or mixed sound editor, including Die Fälscher (Oscar 2008), Lebanon (Golden Lion Venice 2009) and BAL - Honig (Golden Bear 2010).) In 2018 he won the Austrian Film Prize for the mix of Untitled and is looking forward to this year's 2019 Lola for the best sound design of the feature film Styx at the German Film Awards.
Alina is a Ukrainian born producer, film maker, art curator, visual artist and music video director residing in London. In 2018 Alina established her production company Saturn 8 in London, which specializes on art and music management and consulting.
Alina is a Ukrainian born producer, film maker, art curator, visual artist and music video director residing in London. She came to the music industry from an artistic background. Alina has a degree in architecture, fine art and philosophy, also studied contemporary art in UAL Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
After establishing herself as a visual artist, she started to direct and produce music videos such as an official music video for Bergman by Digital 21 and Stefan Olsdal (Placebo), Roses by The Penelopes, etc.
In 2018 Alina established her production company Saturn 8 in London. Saturn 8 specialises on multi-experiential projects at the interface of music, art and digital as well as art and music management and consulting.
Natalie Gravenor was born in Oakland, California and moved to Berlin in 1977. Since 2017 she programs and organizes film festivals, including the Soundwatch Music Film Festival Berlin and the One World Berlin Human Rights Film Festival).
Natalie Gravenor was born in Oakland, California and moved to Berlin in 1977. She graduated with a degree in mass communications from the Berlin University of the Arts in 1994. Since 1988, she has been involved in video and television production, focusing on cultural topics such as music, media arts as well as politics and the urban transformation of Berlin. She also worked as a freelance author and translator for Moving Pictures, Screen International, Time Out Guide and The Wire. Since 2000 she has focused on curation of exhibitions and film programs exploring freedom of expression and other human rights issues from a cultural perspective, such as the One World Berlin Human Rights Film Festival. From 2009 - 2017 she co-ordinated content acquisition for the art house VOD platform www.realeyz.de, operated by EYZ Media GmbH.
Since 2017 she programs and organizes film festivals (Soundwatch Music Film Festival Berlin, One World Berlin Human Rights Film Festival) and with filmokratie she distributes documentary films.
Catherine is an experienced Music Supervisor and Composer Agent. Recent Music Supervision credits include BAFTA nominated drama 'Killing Eve' and TV shows for HBO and BBC. In 2017 she joined Faber Music as Head of Film and TV.
Catherine is an experienced Music Supervisor and Composer Agent. Recent Music Supervision credits include the BAFTA nominated drama Killing Eve, Lynne Ramsay’s feature You Were Never Really Here, critically acclaimed dramas Riviera for Sky, Brexit: The Uncivil War for HBO, The Long Song for the BBC,The Durrells for ITV, Collateral for BBC/Netflix, BAFTA winning London Spy; and JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Films include The Inbetweeners Movie and The Counselor, and she worked on award winning musical film adaptions Les Misérables and Sing Street.
Current projects include series 3 of Killing Eve, new BBC dramas Trigonometry, Us and LIFE, and feature film His House.
Catherine joined Faber Music in 2017 as Head Of Film and TV, where she represents a roster of award winning composers, and independently supervises film and TV projects. She also jointly fronts Faber Alt., Faber’s new pop publishing division.
John Groves is a British composer, musician, producer and specialist for the use of sound and music in advertising and communication. He is known mainly for his memorable jingles and advertising songs.
John Groves is a British composer, musician and producer, and a specialist for the use of sound and music in advertising and communication. He is known mainly for his memorable jingles and advertising songs. In the early nineties, he developed a structured system for creating sound identities for brands. This methodology provided the basis for what now is known as "Sound Branding". In recent years, John has dedicated a lot of his time to the study of psychoacoustics and the applied use of sound in a healthcare context; from navigational sounds for medical equipment to Receptive Sound Therapy programs for helping to improve sleep, manage stress, and more.
Martin Haene is a Publisher of several music library labels, including Nuvotone, consisting of 3 labels and distributed globally by market leader Universal / UPPM, and Catapult, distributed individually per territory.
Martin Haene is a Publisher of several music library labels, including Nuvotone, consisting of 3 labels and distributed globally by market leader Universal / UPPM, and Catapult, distributed individually per territory.
Before becoming a music publisher, Martin Häne worked for 10+ years as composer for all major and various independent production music companies.
His credits as a composer include Fack ju Göhte 2, Melrose Place, Bring it on (Universal), various Lion's Gate Films (Warrior, Frankenhood) as well as Commercials and TV Series on networks such as ABC, NBC, CW TV, among others.
As a Publisher, his mission is simple: To offer high-quality production music for the media industry, ranging from labels with traditional genres to catalogs with unique boutique-made sounds.
Susanne Hardt is a (film) composer and music theorist from Mainz and member of the composer collective 'track 15'. Since 2016 she is working as a lecturer at the University of Music Dresden in the field of music theory.
Susanne Hardt, born 1993, is a (film) composer and music theorist from Mainz and member of the composer collective track 15. In 2016 she completed her bachelor's degree with a major in music theory at the Dresden University of Music and began a master's degree in film music the Film University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. Since 2016 she is working as a lecturer at the University of Music Dresden in the field of music theory.
She has received numerous awards for her compositions, including the Special Mention of Soundtrack Cologne at the European Talent Award 2018. In 2015 she was awarded the 'Carl-Maria von Weber Scholarship' by the Academy of Music in Dresden and received the scholarship 'Schloss Wiepersdorf' from Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland.
Christian Hein is a sample library developer, composer and producer. He produced countless film scores, pop- and orchestral productions, most of then exclusively with virtual instruments. Since 2005, he recorded more than 500.000 samples.
Chris Hein is a sample library developer, composer and producer. He started his career in 1986 with the Commodore C64 computer. In 1988 he produced his first sample library „Studio-Samples“ for Metra Sound. During the 90s, Chris worked as composer and producer in his own studio. He produced countless film scores, pop- and orchestral productions, most of then exclusively with virtual instruments.
One highlight was the music for the musical show Der Zauberwald which was completely made with samples and reached 3 mio. guests. Since 2005 he recorded more than 500.000 samples for his collection of „Chris Hein - Virtual Instruments“.
Tim Heinrich is a graduated composer for movies, commercials and events. He worked at the full-service agency 'echopark' as head of audio. He managed projects for vodafone and Sparkasse and started his own business 'sounTH' in 2008.
Tim Heinrich is a graduated composer for movies, commercials and events with a diploma in composition and sounddesign. After studying 'Keyboards & Musicproduction' he worked at the full-service agency echopark as head of audio. He managed projects for vodafone and Sparkasse. In 2008, he started his own business sounTH.
Productions he has been involved have won some awards (Cannes, World Media Festival). Some of his customers are adidas, Canon, MAN, Panasonic, Philips, Telekom, VW, Warner & ZDF. For the american feature films Jonathan, Trouble (Bill Pullman), A Happening Of Monumental Proportions (Keanu Reeves) he composed the music together with Oliver Kels. His latest work has been the full post-production for the american feature film Blind.
He shares his knowledge on his YouTube channels (sounTH Deutsch, sounTH English) and his podcast (Tims sounTHcast). Since 7 years, a lot of SAE students have been taking part in him sharing his experience in sequencing, post-production, commercials, filmmusic and self-employment.
Einar Helde is a seasoned production music executive with a background in business and commercial law. He is the CEO and one of the co-founders of NRG Agency, who specialize in collecting neighbouring righty royalties for composers and artists.
Einar Helde is a seasoned production music executive with a background in business and commercial law. He is the CEO and one of the co-founders of NRG Agency, who specialize in collecting neighbouring rights royalties for production music composers and artists throughout the world.
He is also CEO of APL Publishing, and oversees seven production music catalogues distributed and licensed globally. APL Publishing is based in Copenhagen, and has an office in Munich handling their German clients.
In addition to that, he is a board member of the European Production Music Committee.
Carolina Hellsgård studied at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the California Institute of Arts. Her debut film "WANJA" has won the "best debut film" award at the Biberacher Film Fest and the award for “best script” at Valletta Film Festival.
Carolina Hellsgård was born in Stockholm. She studied at the University of Arts in Berlin and as a DAAD scholarship holder at the California Institute of Arts. Her debut film had his world premiere at Berlinale 2015. WANJA has won the "best debut film" award at the Biberacher Film Festival and the award for “best script” at Valletta Film Festival, Malta. Hellsgård teached at the School for Building Arts Braunschweig (HBK) and was scholarship holder at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. ENDZEIT was her second time being a feature film director. Right now, she is working at her third feature film SUNBURNED.
Franziska Henke is an award-winning composer, guitarist and producer from Dresden, Germany. For the score to her debut feature film "Nelly's Adventure" she received the German Film Music Award as Best Newcomer.
Franziska Henke is an award-winning composer, guitarist and producer from Dresden, Germany. Her latest scores for Endzeit - Ever after (directed by Carolina Hellsgård, 2018) and My extraordinary summer with Tess (directed by Steven Wouterlood, 2019) premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival and will be released in cinemas all over the globe.
For the score to her debut feature film Nelly's Adventure (directed by Dominik Wessely, 2016) she received the German Film Music Award as Best Newcomer. In her music Henke combines electronic elements with acoustic sounds and creates special sound worlds for every film. She worked with orchestras like the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg and the Brandenburg Staatsorchester Frankfurt.
Currently she scores Constantin Films' first cinematic documentary The Hidden Life of Trees.
Christian is a UK based multi nominated (including BAFTA and World Soundtrack Awards), multi award winning composer. In 2007 Christian co-founded the company Spitfire Audio, providing tools for composers, which developed a cult following worldwide.
Christian is a UK based multi nominated (including Ivor Novello, BAFTA and World Soundtrack Awards), multi award winning composer.
Recent work of note includes BBC TV's remake of The Go Between, ITV's Tutankhamun, ITV’s Trauma, a posthumous collaboration with Jerry Goldsmith, alongside co-writers The Flight, on Alien Isolation (nominated for 'Best Score' BAFTA), the historic conclusion to the Poirot franchise of which Christian composed the final 9 feature length shows. Christian scores the multi award winning cult TV series Inside No. 9 with Reece Sheersmith & Steve Pemberton and has just started preparations on its 5th season.
Henson notoriously undertakes the more challenging productions from the harrowing holocaust epic La Rafle, one of the biggest French films of recent times, Dexter Fletcher’s BAFTA nominated debut Wild Bill, Lee Tamahori’s disturbing The Devil’s Double to a tryptic of insidious horror and comedies from director Christopher Smith with Severance, Black Death and Triangle.
With over 45 films to his name, Christian has proven to be a prodigious and versatile force within the UK film industry.
Christian’s heritage is from first-wave Drum and Bass and breakbeat music of the 90′s with acts such as LTJ Bukem and The Freestylers. This DNA is present in all his scores alongside his unique, self-taught approach to working with the orchestra. He has collaborated with an eclectic number of artists for his scores including Graham Coxon (Blur), Dot Allison (One Dove, Death In Vegas, Massive Attack), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Skye (of Morcheeba), Natasha Khan (of Bat For Lashes), Synergy Vocals (Steve Reich) and Ed Harcourt.
In 2007 Christian co-founded the company Spitfire Audio providing tools for composers the world over. This company has developed a cult global following and has become a generous supporter of the UK music industry.
Eva-Lotte Hill's daily business at 'RTL Deutschland' is reporting music to collecting societies. Moreover, she manages the use of audio fingerprinting technology and the collaboration with a monitoring service for music usage in linear television.
For more than ten years now, Eva-Lotte Hill’s daily business at Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland has been the music reporting to collecting societies. Starting out the pre-digital way as a student employee at Copyright Affairs, she now manages the use of audio fingerprinting technology and the collaboration with a monitoring service for music usage in linear television.
Working in close collaboration with all kinds of media experts she also faces the challenges that creative online use of music represents. Making sure every used piece of music is licensed and reported properly is becoming all the more challenging as the range of online content is steadily broadening.
Chad Hobson is a British composer with lots credentials in film and award winning television. Most recently, Hobson scored "Leaving Neverland", the controversial HBO documentary, following the sexual abuse cases of two young boys by Michael Jackson.
Chad Hobson is a British composer with impressive credentials in film and award winning television. His work in film includes a wide range of genre, from gritty urban dramas like Adulthood (Noel Clarke, Plan B), Epic fantasy like Stardust (Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer), to spoofs and comedies like Dom Hemmingway (Jude Law, Richard E Grant), Anuvahood (Adam Deacon), and Shaun the Sheep Movie.
Most recently, Hobson scored Leaving Neverland (directed by Dan Reed), the controversial HBO documentary, following the sexual abuse cases of two young boys by singer Michael Jackson.
Further projects include the two-time BAFTA and Grierson Award winning The Paedophile Hunter, also directed by Dan Reed, the BBC’s BAFTA award winning series Our War, and the powerful BBC drama A Song For Jenny, directed by Brian Percival and starring Emily Watson.
Chad's diverse talents as composer and performer have prompted collaborations with many prestigious figures in the film industry. He arranged and played ethnic instruments supported by full orchestra for James McTeigue and the Wachowski brothers' Ninja Assassin. Additionally, Hobson provided vocals and choral arrangements for the classically scored The Young Victoria produced by Martin Scorsese, starring Emily Blunt.
His associations with leading film composer Ilan Eshkeri and Grammy Award-winning score producer Steve McLaughlin have led him to contribute to other high-profile films, like Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust, Dino Di Laurentiis' Hannibal Rising, Film Four’sBattle of Haditha, directed by Nick Broomfield, and Rowan Atkinson’s comedy spy thriller Johnny English Reborn.
Other work for television includes the BAFTA Award-winning series Fight for life (BBC1), Series 8 of Waking the Dead, BAFTA Award-nominated Help Me Help My Child, as well as live events, like the EMA’s (MTV European Music Awards) directed by Hamish Hamilton, and Style icon Ozwald Boateng’s renowned Fashion shows around the world including bio pic feature A Man’s Story.
Lisa Humann works as a Director Synch & Licensing with a focus on film and series at BMG in Berlin. She pitches music for film and series, advises filmmakers on music selection for their projects and also handles the licensing.
Lisa Humann works as a Director Synch & Licensing with a focus on film and series at BMG in Berlin. She pitches music for film and series, advises filmmakers on music selection for their projects and also handles the licensing for those productions. Before moving to Berlin in October 2013 she co-founded and built the sync agency Swimming Pool in Vienna. During this time, the idea for the music film festival Poolinale arose, where she was in charge of curating the program from 2011 to 2013.
Daria Ivankova graduated from the workshop of documentary film directing 'All-Russian State University of Cinematography' in 2018 and worked on many short films. 'Anatoly Krupnov. He was' (2019, 72 min) is Daria's first feature documentary film.
Daria Ivankova was born in 1991 in Yekaterinburg. In 2018, she graduated from the workshop of documentary film directing All-Russian State University of Cinematography (named after S. A. Gerasimov), a.k.a. VGIK. Her filmography includes the shorts Roizman. Nonfictional (2015, 34 min) and Aleksey Oktyabrinovich (2017, 43 min). Anatoly Krupnov. He was (2019, 72 min) is Daria's first feature documentary film.
Pianist, musician and composer Davíð Þór Jónsson is a versatile artist with a special passion for improvisation. He has received numerous awards for his music, including both the Icelandic Music Prize and the Icelandic Theatre Prize.
Pianist, musician and composer Davíð Þór Jónsson is a wildly versatile and creative artist with a special passion for improvisation. Davíð Þór has performed in a number of ensembles, including jazz trio Flís and AdHd, as well as collaborating with many of Iceland’s foremost musicians and theatre artists, as instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer. Davíð has received numerous awards for his music, including both the Icelandic Music Prize and the Icelandic Theatre Prize as well as international awards for his original soundtracks for Of Horses and Men and Woman at War.
Davíð's performances, improvisation and composition meet effortlessly as a creation of musical ideas and sounds. He is driven by the general passion behind creation of things, in what way they are presented and passed on to people - in music, arts and life in general. His goal in music is to never stop the childlike enthusiasm and constant creativity.
Vanessa Jopp studied directing at the College of Television and Film in Munich. In 2010 she was awarded the Grimme Prize for directing the miniseries "Klimawechsel". Her latest movie "Gut gegen Nordwind" will be released on September 12th.
From 1993 - 1999, Vanessa Jopp studied directing at the College of Television and Film in Munich. Since then, she has made several award-winning movies, including Vergiss Amerika, Engel und Joe, Komm Näher, Meine schöne Bescherung and Lügen und andere Wahrheiten. In 2010 she was awarded the Grimme Prize for directing the miniseries Klimawechsel. Her latest movie Gut gegen Nordwind will be released on September 12th.
In 1988 Christoph Kaiser started working as a record producer and remixer for various bands such as Can and Maxim Rad. He met Julian Maas in 2003 while recording an album in Venice and they have been composing music for movies together ever since.
Christoph started playing guitar at the age of 14. In 1988 he formed the group The Jeremy Days as their bassplayer, contributing the bigger part of the songwriting. Simultaneously he started working as a record producer and remixer for various bands such as Can, Maxim Rad and the experimental composer Holger Hiller, gradually incorporating more filmic sounds through sampling or arrangement. In 2000 he composed his first film score for the movie Crazy by Hans Christian Schmid (German academy award / best feature film) and wrote his first orchestra arrangements for the London Session Orchestra.
Christoph M. Kaiser met Julian Maas in 2003 while recording an album in Venice and since then they have been composing music for movies together.
Kaiser & Maas have composed soundtracks for a variety of german films including Rememberance by Anna Justice, This Is Love by Matthias Glasner (Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival), Wolfskinder by Rick Ostermann (Venice Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival 2013), Jack by director Edward Berger and the 2015 german film award winner The People vs. Fritz Bauer by director Lars Kraume.
They have also written the score to a feature called Two Lives by director Georg Maas which was germanys official entry in the race for the 2014 OSCAR for best foreign language film.
In 2018 Christoph and Julian received a European Film Award („European Composer 2018“) as well a German Film Award (Best music) for their score 3 Days in Quiberon (directed by Emily Atef).
Other film credits include more than 50 feature films for television, various shorts and commercials and a documentary portraying the american photographer Tina Barney.
Chris Kennedy is the founder/director of Rident Royalties, an agency dedicated to identifying and recovering unclaimed neighboring rights royalty income.
Chris Kennedy is the founder/director of Rident Royalties, an agency dedicated to identifying and recovering unclaimed neighboring rights royalty income.
Specializing in collections for media composers/artists, Rident aims to fill the gaps in neighboring rights coverage created by varying policies on audiovisual remuneration amongst territories, which are often less straightforward than the policies governing radio remuneration. By providing direct-to-source collections in every major territory internationally, Rident ensures enhanced transparency into earnings and visibility into unclaimed funds.
Drawing on prior employment experience at a leading performance rights organization, Kennedy aims to bring increased transparency into industry’s estimated $2.5 billion royalty black box.
Bernd Keul is a live musician, composer and producer who has more than 30 years of work experience in the field of computer music production. He focuses on world music concerts and hybrid instruments and his works have been performed in theatres.
Bernd Keul is a live musician, composer and producer who has more than 30 years of work experience in the field of computer music production. He focuses on world music concerts and hybrid instruments and his works have been performed in theatres and played on the radio. Through his activity he gained extensive experience in working with Leap Motion, Roli Seabord Blocks, TouchOSC and Max for Life Devices.
Kaja Klimek is a film critic, educator and translator based in Warsaw, Poland. She translates films, sometimes writes about them and constantly discusses them with filmmakers at film festivals in Poland and abroad.
Kaja Klimek is a film critic, educator and translator based in Warsaw, Poland. She translates films, sometimes writes about them and constantly discusses them - with filmmakers at film festivals in Poland and abroad, with other film buffs and geeks in the media, with students at University in Warsaw, and also with kids, as part of New Horizons Festival, Polish Film Institute and Filmoteka Szkolna film education programs.
Tessa Knapp studied media art and has been freelancing in the field of media art and film since 2007. As part of her work as a lecturer and author for cultural education she has already led more than 40 projects with diverse age groups.
Tessa Knapp studied media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a focus on video art, experimental film as well as archeology and media variantology. Since 2007 she has been freelancing in the field of media art and film; several of her works have been awarded (1st prize Showcase International Film Forum Germany, 1st NRW Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for Taste of Honey (montage)).
As part of her activities as a lecturer and author for cultural education and media art education, she developed several teaching concepts and led more than 40 projects on animation, photography, set design, music clips and analog / digital media design for different age groups.
Since 2017 she has been teaching video art and digital media at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she offers courses and excursions for art and media as well as advising and supervising student projects in the field of digital recording technology.
Since 2007 Cornelia Köhler is an independent producer/script-writer/dramaturge for cinema and TV formats. Since 2009 she has been a member of 'Women in Film and Television Germany' and since 2010 is a board member of 'WIFT Germany'.
Cornelia Köhler works in the media industry since 2000, first as a producer of sitcoms Das Amt and Bernds Hexe for Cologne-Gemini film, later in the script development for Constantin Entertainment. Since 2007 Cornelia Köhler is an independent producer/script-writer/dramaturge for cinema and TV formats. She is editor of the magazine Rundbrief (Film-und Medienbüro Niedersachsen) and director and scriptwriter for a series of documentaries about German Literature (e.g. about Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller), worked among others as dramaturge for the feature films Low Lights (produced by dagstarfilm, 2009), Pattys Catchup (dagstarfilm, 2011) and as co-writer for the German-Lithuanian documentary Liebe Oma, Guten Tag (dagstarfilm, 2017, supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW). Since 2009 she has been a member of Women in Film and Television Germany and since 2010 is a board member of WIFT Germany.
Hansjörg Kohli is a film composer currently living and working in Munich. He grew up in Switzerland, studied film scoring and jazz piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA and the University of Performing Arts in Munich.
Hansjörg Kohli is a film composer currently living and working in Munich. He grew up in Switzerland, studied film scoring and jazz piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA and the University of Performing Arts in Munich. He startet out as an orchestrator for a variety of film projects. Later on he became the head of the film music department at German National Television ZDF in Mainz. Among his more recent works are the scores to Die Küstenpiloten (ARD/ Degeto), Jenseits der Spree (ZDF), Väter - Allein zu Haus (ARD/ WDR), Kirgistan - Hochgebirgsland voller Schätze (ARTE), 37Grad - Schmerz, lass nach! (ZDF). He is teaching in the film scoring program at the Munich University of Performing Arts and also in the Master of Arts in TV Journalism program at the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.
Film composer Oliver Kranz was born 1965 in Kreuztal, Germany. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance film composer, creating around 60 feature film scores for television and cinema as well as numerous compositions for TV series.
Film composer Oliver Kranz was born 1965 in Kreuztal, Germany. He studied guitar under H.G. Rausch in Munich. His enthusiasm for film music began at the age of 12 with Star Wars. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance film composer, creating around 60 feature film scores for television and cinema as well as numerous compositions for TV series.
Dr. Anselm Kreuzer is a designated specialist for TV title themes, station IDs, scores for series and TV drama as well as music for new media and advertising. He scored for German TV series like "In aller Freundschaft" and "Rosenheim-Cops".
Anselm Kreuzer began playing the Cello at age 9 and soon discovered composing as his major passion. Already back then he combined the classical approach with modern sounds. After finishing school he studied musicology, media science and phonetics at the Cologne University and achieved a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Film Music. During his time as a student he got several assignments for media compositions, especially in the field of radio and television. Now he is a designated specialist for TV title themes, station IDs, scores for series and TV drama as well as music for new media and advertising.
Also he has an oeuvre of more than 1000 internationally successful production music titles. Among the magazine and news shows he composed for are Weltreisen (ARD), Check Eins - Neuneinhalb (ARD), Die Chefin (ZDF), Die lustigsten Schlamassel (RTL), Lebensläufe (MDR), RBB UM6 (RBB), ZIBB (RBB), Täter Opfer Polizei (RBB). He recently scored for TV series like Küstenwache, Kripo Holstein - Mord und Meer (ZDF), Rosenheim-Cops (ZDF), In Aller Freundschaft (ARD) and documentaries like Natur Exklusiv (BR).
He is co founder of the production music label MUSIC SCULPTOR. Whether symphonic orchestra or electronic approach - Anselm has a passionate faible for emotional, narrative and often catchy thematic music that merges with moving pictures and stories. He often sounds the borders between composition and sound design and passes on his know how to students as a guest lecturer at several universities and media schools. Also he is engaged as a working group leader in the media industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe and as a board member of the Composers Club.
Matthias Krüger is a bassplayer and composer for TV scores, documentaries, nature films, contemporary history, reportages, jingles and main themes. He is a board member of composers club professional association for composers.
Matthias Krüger is a bassplayer and composer for TV scores mainly for german television, documentaries, nature films, contemporary history, reportages, jingles and main themes. At the end of the 70ies/beginning of the 80ies he studied at the jazz school Munich with Joe Haider. In that time and after that he was touring with different jazz-rock and fusion bands. He had sessions and/or working with Fred Braceful, Terumasa Hino, Zbigniew Seifert, Missus Beastley, Embryo, Ramesh Shotam, Dr Aftershave and the Mixed Pickles, Elastic Rock Band, Jan Zelinka, Alex Grünwald, Pierre Oser, Burkard Schmidl and Marlon Klein. He also tried himself in the the field of world music and ambient music (experimenting with tape machines and loops in an analog way). Since 1997 he is a member of Klangraum mainz with Bernhard Hering and Martin Wester. Krüger is sound engineer and producer in Klangraum studio, where he produces lots of jazz productions but also some rock, classic, choir, cabaret and voice recordings, also in the Klangraum context (for tv-scores and library music). Moreover, he plays concerts as a bass player (bass guitar and /or upright bass), duo concerts, and he recorded cds with guitar player Tilmann Höhn. Matthias Krüger is a board member of composers club (professional association for composers).
Maya Lavelle is a Dutch singer-songwriter, producer and composer. Her style can be described as an eclectic mix of electronic and classical styles to create a cinematic pop journey. She was twice Number 1 in the Netherlands iTunes Top Charts.
Maya Lavelle is a Dutch singer-songwriter, producer and composer. Her style can be described as an eclectic mix of electronic and classical styles to create a cinematic pop journey. Featured on BBC Introducing, she was twice Number 1 in the Netherlands iTunes Top Charts with her singles Ben and House On A Rocky Road which also peaked at number 27 in the UK.
House on a Rocky Road music video was a big production, with a crew of over 70 people, Maya Lavelle herself as Producer and Art Director, and directed by Sundance 2019 triple award winning film director Tamara Kotevska (including winning the coveted World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize).
Maya Lavelle began her musical journey studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she earned a masters degree in Advanced Composition and Orchestration. She has gone on to win prizes, such as ‘Best Piece’ in the Young Composers Meeting competition in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and was chosen to represent the Netherlands for the Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Talent Campus as a Film Composer.
Currently based in London, she is preparing to release her debut album Hobo in November 2019. She is the sole composer, producer and writer of her music, creating her own instruments and samples, like recording crickets and birds in Brazil and dropping toys on piano strings. The overall concept is an escape from boredom into the phantasmagorical world of Maya Lavelle. Inspired from her experiences while living in Amsterdam, Los Angeles and London, the characters she sings about are lonely, searching for love and care, just like Hobo. They’re all coming from different dimensions to meet in the "House On A Rocky Road".
"A songwriter, musician, and producer, she binds together disparate samples with her own evocative voice to create something remarkably unified." - Clash Magazine
"Not imprisoned by standards and trends in music she composes and produces cinematic arrangements permeated with electronic and classical music styles" - Indie Nation
"Her songs create worlds you can touch, taste, and feel." - Pens Eye View
"Maya Lavelle is a storyteller, a composer, and songwriter that can enchant anyone with her hypnotically poetic music" - Live in Limbo
The search for the unforeseen is a key element in Patrick Leuchter's music. He is a sound designer and media composer who moved to computer-based composition and sequencing in his adolescence and holds degrees in Audio Production and Sound Studies.
Patrick Leuchter (born 1984 in Aachen) is a sound designer and media composer currently living in Cologne, Germany. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight and then moved to computer-based composition and sequencing in his adolescence. The fascination for audio technology, music and sound, led him to study a bachelor's degree in Audio Production and a master’s degree in Sound Studies / Musicology.
Today he's working in the broad field of media production specialising in sound design, spatial audio and music composition. For his music and soundscape compositions Leuchter searches for the unforeseen, for odds in the perfection of computer music and for rare field recordings wherever he travels. His work has been awarded the STAWAG Music Award, the SAE Alumni Award and the Art Director's Club (ADC) Award.
Hanna Sophie Lüke is a music journalist, presenter and musician & composer. She has moderated the science festival EFFEKTE in Karlsruhe since 2013 and is the co-founder of the composer collective 'track 15 - female composers collective' (2018).
Hanna Sophie Lüke is a music journalist, presenter and musician & composer. She completed her master's degree in "Music Journalism for Broadcasting and Multimedia" in 2013 with honors. Since then she works as a music journalist for editors of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne (1LIVE, WDR 2, WDR 3, WDR 4, WDR radio house orchestra), and is regularly heard on the radio. As a stage presenter focusing on science, music and topics of the future, she has moderated the science festival EFFEKTE and the regular EFFEKTE series in Karlsruhe since 2013.
As a composer and singer-songwriter, Hanna Sophie Lüke has been working with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg since 2018. She is co-founder of the composer collective track 15 - female composers collective (2018). In 2019, the first joint publication Neoclassical Score with the Film Orchestra Babelsberg at Universal PM followed.
Maxime Luft is a French-German composer for films and live events. He founded the 'Organic Samples' company in 2017 to make his libraries publicly available and set up an exclusive collaboration with 'Orchestral Tools' for his samples.
Maxime Luft is a French-German composer for films and live events. He founded the Organic Samples company in 2017 to make his libraries publicly available.
As a composer, he worked with Berlin artist Alexander Stublić for a palace illumination show and regularly collaborates with trailer music labels such as Immediate Music or SPM Music Group, as well as with other composers like Christoph Zirngibl and Jan Pfitzer. In the realm of sampling, Maxime Luft gained his first experiences by recording his own sample libraries for the projects he worked on. He got familiar with legato programming and recording in different acoustic spaces, ending up recording his Ethnic Inspiration and Majestic Horn libraries in a church with multiple microphone positions.
Earlier this year, Maxime Luft set up an exclusive collaboration with Orchestral Tools to pursue his Organic Samples instruments. He now lives in Berlin.
International award-winning composer Maurizio Malagnini burst onto the scene in 2009, bringing his cinematic understanding and melodies through his scores to numerous BBC hits. His credits include "The Paradise", "The C Word", "The Midwife" and more.
International award-winning composer Maurizio Malagnini burst onto the scene in 2009, bringing his cinematic class and stunning melodies through his scores to numerous BBC hits.
In demand because of his ability to vary his palette of sounds and styles, each time bringing the audience to the heart of the story, Malagnini’s work on The Paradise has been recognized with an EMMY® Award Nomination and has been hailed as a "masterpiece of musical storytelling".
Other projects include the BAFTA nominated film The C Word and the music for series 4 to 8 of the BAFTA Winner Call The Midwife, which is the most watched Drama in British Television averaging 11 million viewers per Episode and distributed internationally in 202 territories. Maurizio’s success over recent years have resulted in him winning the title of Breakthrough Composer Of The Year from the International Film Music Critic Association and four Music+Sound Awards. Maurizio recently composed an epic orchestral score for a 2-hour drama for ITV, Peter and Wendy, based on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan novel, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and winner of the International Emmy Award in 2017.
During his ten years of academic studies at the Conservatory of Italy, he came into contact with the music of the greatest Italian film composers, in particular Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. Upon completion of his degree in symphonic composition at the Conservatory in Italy, Malagnini headed to the UK to attend the Royal College of Music in 2006, where he graduated with a Masters Distinction in Composition for Screen and where he has been Professor of Composition.
Michael McCann is a BAFTA nominated and CLIO award winning composer for games, television and advertising. His 20 year career in music includes work for some of the biggest companies in entertainment and advertising (e.g. Ubisoft, Ogilvy & Mather).
Michael McCann is a BAFTA nominated and CLIO award winning composer for games, television and advertising. His 20 year career in music includes work for some of the biggest companies in entertainment and advertising, including Ubisoft, Ogilvy & Mather, Discovery Channel, Take-Two Interactive, Paramount Pictures and Square Enix. As lead composer, he has scored games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution / Mankind Divided, XCOM: Enemy Unknown / Enemy Within and Splinter Cell: Double Agent. McCann is currently working on Borderlands 3, the highly anticipated sequel to one of the best-selling franchises in gaming.
Micki Meuser is a film composer, music producer and songwriter who wrote the music to over 60 films, including international movies with Daniel Craig and Kirsten Dunst. He is chairman of the DEFKOM and a member of the supervisory board of GEMA.
Micki Meuser is a film composer, music producer and songwriter who lives in Berlin.
He wrote the music to over 60 films, including international movies with Daniel Craig, Kirsten Dunst or Lynn Redgrave, and many feature films for ZDF and ARD, as well as music for TV series in Germany and the USA.
He produced albums and wrote songs for artists such as Ideal, Die Ärzte, Ina Deter, Silly, Lassie Singers, Nervous Germans and many others. On many of these recordings he also played bass and keyboards.
Micki Meuser is chairman of the German Film Composers Union (DEFKOM) and member of the board of the German Composers' Association. Meuser is also a member of the supervisory board of GEMA.
Lukas Middelmann (Industry Relations & Career Coach at SAE Institute Cologne) connects the dots between students/alumni and the media industry, helping students to start their career. Besides, he is working as a freelance sound engineer and composer.
Lukas Middelmann – Industry Relations & Career Coach at SAE Institute Cologne – connects the dots between SAE students and alumni and the media industry, helping students to start their own career. Lukas also manages the SAE Alumni chapter Cologne and has become a key player in organizing the SAE Convention for the last three years.
Lukas has and still is working as a freelance sound engineer, primarily for live sound. He worked with artists like Patricia Kelly, Shadmehr Aghilli, Sea + Air, and many more in over 15 countries worldwide. Additionally he worked as a music producer, composer and voiceover artist for several projects. In his free time he loves to sing, play guitar and enjoys the quietness in the countryside with his family.
Uwe Mies freelanced as a professional film critic since 1990 and worked for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, WAZ, Bild and other daily newspapers. Since 2002 he is a film critic at the radio station WDR 5.
Uwe Mies, born in 1962, studied German and English language and political sciences at the University of Cologne. Since 1986 he worked as a journalist and since 1990 freelance as a professional film critic, working for Express and Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, WAZ, BILD and other daily newspapers. Since 2002 he is a film critic at the radio station WDR 5, from 2007 to 2010 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine KINO & CO. In the years 2005 and 2006 he attended the jury of the German Camera Award. He has several engagements as presenter and lecturer in film history.
Originally from Vienna, Thomas Mikusz lives in Los Angeles. He is a team member of White Bear PR, part of the leadership for The Alliance for Women Film Composers and a member of the TV Academy and the World Soundtrack Academy.
Thomas Mikusz has represented composers at major Film Festivals, such as Berlinale, Festival de Cannes, Sundance and the Tribeca Film Festival. As a team member of White Bear PR, he has contributed to several Emmy-winning and Oscar & Golden Globe nominated score contenders. In addition, he spearheads the campaigns and oversees Red Carpet and Guest Management for International Film Festivals and Premieres in Los Angeles and Miami, as well as for the Ibero-American movie awards, ThePremios Platinos. He also produces content, concerts, panels and red-carpet events.
As a speaker he leads panels at conventions and major Film and Music Festivals around the world discussing the craft of film, television and video game music. Furthermore, he teaches workshops on self-promotion for artists at Universities, such as USC and NYU. Thomas is part of the leadership for The Alliance for Women Film Composers and a member of the TV Academy and the World Soundtrack Academy. Originally from Vienna, he lives in Los Angeles.
Sebastian Mönch is active for Steinberg as a Senior Product Specialist International since 2009. There, he teaches video game developers, sound engineers and broadcasting company staff.
After studying music production, film sound and interactive music, Sebastian Mönch started as a freelancer for sound design and composition for games. He is active for Steinberg as a Senior Product Specialist International since 2009. There, he teaches video game developers, sound engineers and broadcasting company staff. He is a passionate player himself and teaches Game Audio at SAE Hamburg.
Dr. Rolf Moser is CEO of 'Bavaria Media GmbH' and 'Enterprises Sonor Musik GmbH'. In the field of music supervising and right clearance, he is responsible for editorial support and advice for numerous cinema and TV productions.
Dr. Rolf Moser is the CEO of Bavaria Media GmbH and Managing Director of Enterprises Sonor Musik GmbH. While studying law and journalism in Berlin and Munich, he was a scholarship holder and research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law. Since then, he has occupied various management positions in the Bavaria Film Group and has an admission as attorney in Munich. In the field of music supervising and right clearance, he is responsible for editorial support and advice for numerous cinema and TV productions.
He is Chairman of the AG Filmmusik in the German Music Publishers Association (DMV) and has published several publications and lectures on media-related topics, including the standard work Moser/Scheuermann/Drücke, Manual of the Music Economy (7th edition, Beck publishing house).
Liverpool born John Murphy began scoring movies at the age of 25. After moving to Los Angeles, he produced scores for films like "Miami Vice", "Kick-Ass" and more. His latest project, BBC’s "Les Miserables", premiered in the US on April 14 on PBS.
Liverpool born John Murphy began scoring movies at the age of 25. In 2001, following the success of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he moved to Los Angeles.
Since then he has worked with some of the industry's most respected and luminary filmmakers, including Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Frears, Matthew Vaughn and Michael Mann, producing film scores as prominent and diverse as Sunshine, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Miami Vice, Snatch, Kick-Ass, and the seminal 28 Days Later.
His movie trailers include Captain America: Winter Soldier, Gravity, X-Men: Origins, Cloverfield, War of the Worlds, Cowboys and Aliens, Blindness, Ex Machina, Southpaw, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Avatar.
His music has been featured in advertising campaigns for Nike, Audi, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, Samsung, Google, and Apple. After Kick-Ass Murphy set up the record label Taped Noise and began work on several non-movie projects. His latest project, BBC’s Les Miserables, premiered in the US on April 14 on PBS.
Born in Thuringia, Sebastian Parche began scoring at the age of 26. He founded the boutique library 'Music Sculptor' together with Anselm Kreuzer in 2017, a production music company specialising in music for documentaries, TV, broadcast and promos.
Born in Thuringia, Sebastian Parche began scoring at the age of 26. Before he graduated at ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten in Arnhem Netherlands (M.M.), he wrote music for numerous documentaries such as Eisbär, Affe & Co., Die großen Schlachten. After his study, for example, he scored Artisten im Wind and Darkwoods, which were recorded in cooperation with the Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra. He founded the boutique library Music Sculptor together with Anselm Kreuzer in 2017 – a production music company passionately specialising in music for documentaries, television, broadcast and promos.
Sascha Peters is heading the production music unit of 'Warner/Chappell Music Germany' for the territories of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His field of responsibility includes the production of new music for owned labels such as 'Perfect Pitch'.
Sascha Peters is heading the production music unit of Warner/Chappell Music Germany for the territories of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He started his career as a music consultant & sales manager at BMG/Zomba Production Music, moved to Universal Publishing Production Music as repertoire manager and became later the head of licensing. Thereafter, he worked as senior sales manager broadcast & corporate GSA & Benelux at EMI Music Publishing.
Since 2012 he has been working for Warner/Chappell and takes care of all matters of a major production music company, including the production of new music for the owned labels Perfect Pitch, Color TV & Elbroar.
Paul Pilot is a composer who has worked under the production and executive production of Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg amongst others. Current projects include a Documentary soundtrack about the folk rock scene in Laurel Canyon in the 1960's.
Paul Pilot (alias Paul Wilkinson) is an Irish composer based in Berlin. Paul began his musical career as writer/singer in Irish band “the amazing Pilots”. Signed to Decor records (UK/Europe) and Undertow Records (North America), the band toured extensively throughout Europe with such greats as 'American Music Club' and 'Pedro the Lion'.
As a film composer Paul's approach of “organic sounds, nontraditional approach” has forged a style that is highly textural and blends aspects of tonal sound design alongside more traditional performance compositions.
He has worked under the production and executive production of Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg amongst others. Current projects include a Documentary soundtrack for Jigsaw Productions, NYC, about the folk rock scene in Laurel Canyon in the late 1960's/70's.
Franziska Pohlmann specialised in working with choirs and orchestras as a composer. At Studio Hamburgs "House of the Young Producers" she got a scholarship and led the "pohlmann creatives UG" as founder and CEO from 2013-2017.
Franziska Pohlmann specialised in working with choirs and orchestras as a composer. The melody as a repository of memory is her strongest element. In her work, she refers to her experience as being a member of the Hamburg State Opera Choir, Musical Director at different theatres and songwriting for about 20 years. Her musical work is also an essential part of her filmmaking. Her music feature film The Crown of Arkus was amongst others nominated for the German METROPOLIS prize for directing. The usage of voice as means of expression - and music being an own lingual system within - was her subject also at a TEDx Talk.
At Studio Hamburgs „House of the Young Producers“ she got a scholarship and led the pohlmann creatives UG as founder and CEO from 2013-2017. Next to her broad international network, she established as a director, composer and producer working for such formats as Schloss Einstein or the NSU Protocols.
Chandler Poling is the Co-Founder and President of White Bear PR. He has run successful Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, BAFTA and Emmy campaigns securing nominations and wins for his clients.
Chandler Poling is the Co-Founder and President of White Bear PR, a Public Relations firm specializing in Publicity for Composers, Music Supervisors, and Film & Music Festivals around the world. Chandler has run successful Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, BAFTA and Emmy campaigns securing nominations and wins for his clients. His clients have been featured in national and international publications, such as Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, LA Times, and Rolling Stone Magazine to name just a few. He created the first ever composer-focused panel at Comic-Con San Diego, the World’s Largest Pop Culture Convention. These panels are now an ongoing tradition – a platform for composers to discuss their craft and meet their fans. In addition to producing and moderating panels, Chandler has been invited to give lectures on PR for Composers at Berklee College of Music, Royal College of Music, USC, Krakow Film Music Festival, SoundTrack_Cologne, the World Soundtrack Awards Industry Days, and others.
Stefan has worked in the field of Audio and SoundDesign for TV and Movies since the end of the 90's and worked on games such as 'Battleforge', 'Risen 3' and 'The Settlers'. At the moment, he is the Audio Director at Ubisoft Blue Byte.
Stefan Randelshofer, Audio Director at Ubisoft Blue Byte
Stefan has worked in the field of Audio and SoundDesign for TV and Movies since the end of the 90‘s. In the mid 00’s he started to work on games as Sound Designer and Audio Director – i.e. EA – Battleforge, Piranha Bytes – Risen 3, Ubisoft – The Settlers. He is a certified Fmod and Wwise User and teaches Soundscape Design for Games at the University of applied Sciences in Salzburg, at ETIC in Lisbon and at various SAE institutes in Germany. At the moment, he is the Audio Director at Ubisoft Blue Byte and is responsible for all products in the studio.
Christoph Rinnert studied musicology and now works as a studio musician, producer and composer in the context of commissioned compositions for films in the field of documentary and fiction for cinema / TV.
After growing up in Istanbul, Christoph Rinnert pursued his Islam and Comparative Music Studies at the Free University Berlin. Recording and playing with many bands around Europe in the following years, he intensified his work in the studio in the early 1980s. Ever since, he produced and composed score music for documentaries and fiction movies (TV/cinema), i.e.
Georg Baselitz (D. 2013) Kino / Regie Evelyn Schels,
Wenn Bäume Puppen tragen (D. 2012) Kino / Regie Ismail Sahin,
Die Akte Pasolini Dok. / Regie Andreas Pichler,
Unter Brüdern (D. 2014) Kino / Regie Marcel Wehn,
Pola Kinski Dok / Regie Evelyn Schels
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Body of Truth (D. 2019) Kino / Regie Evelyn Schels
The closeness to the Turkish culture is characteristic for many film scores e.g. Salz im Mokka - doc. / Director Evelyn Schels, Aylin - doc. / Director Evelyn Schels, Tatar Ramazan Turkey / Prime Time Series. He lives and works in Berlin and is a member of the Federal Board Composer's Club - professional association of commissioned composers, of the evaluation committee of the GEMA and of the German Music Council and German Media Council.
Lolita Ritmanis is a 10-time Emmy Award-nominated composer, having won this award in 2002 for her work on Batman Beyond. She is founding member of the "Alliance for Women Film Composers" (serving as president 2016-2018) and "Dynamic Music Partners."
Lolita Ritmanis is an Emmy award winning composer. She has been nominated 10 times, and won the coveted statue in 2002 for her work on the Warner Bros. series Batman Beyond.
Recent career highlights include: scoring the critically acclaimed Justice League: Fatal Five, Wild DaZe-documentary (featuring Jane Goodall), as well as continued work on fan-favorite productions: Marvel Rising (Marvel), and Young Justice (WarnerBros). Other select credits include: The Killing Joke (starring Mark Hamill as the voice of The Joker), Justice League (the theme, composed by Lolita, received a Primetime Emmy nomination), Teen Titans, Ben 10, Wacky Races, Spectacular Spider-Man, Batman: The Animated Series, as well as composing score and songs for the Primetime Emmy nominated musical Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Mayhem of the Music Meister (starring Neil Patrick Harris).
Lolita’s concert works, as well as four original musicals have been performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Taiwan and Australia. Her music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Krakow International Film Music Festival, Fimucité International Film Music Festival in Tenerife, Canary Islands, and Playfest in Ubeda, Spain.
Early in her career, Lolita learned from the masters while working for such composing greats as Michael Kamen, Basil Poledouris, Mark Snow and Shirley Walker, among many others. Prior to focusing her career on composition, Lolita was an orchestrator on over 100 films, mini-series and television programs including Lethal Weapon 4, X-Files Movie, and Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves.
Lolita is one of the founders of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, serving as president 2016-2018, and a founding member of Dynamic Music Partners. On May 9th, 2018 Lolita was honored with the BMI Champion Award.
Wilbert Roget, II is a veteran composer in the video game industry. He has scored several diverse titles, including "Call of Duty: WWII", "Mortal Kombat 11" and "Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris".
Wilbert Roget, II is a veteran composer in the video game industry. He has scored several diverse titles, including Call of Duty: WWII, Mortal Kombat 11, Anew: The Distant Light, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, and Star Wars: The Old Republic. His scores have earned him several awards and nominations from the Game Audio Network Guild, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (D.I.C.E. Awards), and others.
Roget also co-founded Impact Soundworks, a successful music software company, and is an accomplished lecturer on game music, giving talks at the Game Developers Conference, SF Conservatory of Music, Yale University and other institutions. Inspired at an early age by classic Japanese game soundtracks, Roget specializes in writing music that employs memorable themes, balancing modern production with classic construction. He studied music at Yale University, and performs on flute, guitar and keyboards on many of his scores.
Jeff Rona is an accomplished and award-winning contemporary composer for film, TV, and video games. He is a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award and has authored several successful books on music.
Jeff Rona is an accomplished and award-winning contemporary composer for film, TV, and video games.
After working with several legendary record producers he focused his efforts on film music, most notably collaborating with Philip Glass, Mark Isham, Lisa Gerrard, Basil Poledouris, and longstanding musical relationships with composers Hans Zimmer and Cliff Martinez. Rona has scored dozens of film and television projects and written music for multiple AAA video games including the epic God of War 3, Far Cry 4, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, Transformers, Resident Evil 2, Crossfire, and Devil May Cry 5.
He is a three-time recipient of the ASCAPFilm and Television Music Award and has authored several successful books on music.
Afsaneh Salari is an Iranian filmmaker, producer and editor based in Tehran and Paris. She is the co-founder of 'Docmaniacs', a collective of filmmakers based in Tehran which accompanies young filmmakers in the international documentary scene.
Afsaneh Salari is an Iranian filmmaker, producer and editor based in Tehran and Paris. She is the co-founder of Docmaniacs, a collective of filmmakers based in Tehran which accompanies young filmmakers from Iran and Afghanistan in the international documentary scene. She has a BA in film from Tehran university, a master degree in creative directing and cinematography from Paris 8 university and a master degree in documentary directing from Docnomads joint masters. She has directed several documentaries in Iran and Europe and is now directing and producing the feature documentary The Silhouettes, and produces in parallel the feature documentary The Forbidden Strings by the Afghan filmmaker Hasan Noori. She has so far received supports from Sundance Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund, Asian Cinema Fund, Doha Institute and Karlovy Vary Docs in Progress for the films she’s directing and producing.
Marc Schießer was born 1986 in Wuppertal, Germany and started producing his own short films when he was 13 years old. Since 2016, he is managing director of Outside the Club GmbH and author, director and producer of the mystery series "Wishlist".
Marc Schießer was born 1986 in Wuppertal, Germany and started producing his own short films when he was 13 years old. After graduating he worked as producer and cameraman of fashion films and as a media education director at the renowned media project Wuppertal. From 2014 to 2016, he ran the fiction YouTube channel "vivi & denny" together with Marcel Becker-Neu. Since 2016, he is managing director of Outside the Club GmbH and author, director and producer of the mystery series Wishlist.
Before Irmin founded the now legendary German band CAN in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Several of his compositions have been performed by renowed artists and orchestras.
Before Irmin founded the now legendary German band CAN in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras including his own compositions. During this period he also composed music for various film and theatre productions. In the late 60ies Schmidt decided to unite classical New Music with Rock and Jazz and founded CAN. Between 1969 and 1978 he worked exclusively with CAN.
After 1978 Irmin released several solo albums - Toy Planet (with B. Spoerri), Musk At Dusk, Impossible Holidays - and a 3 CD box-set of his work as a film composer (Anthology - Soundtrack 1978 - 1993). He also wrote the Fantasy Opera, Gormenghast (premiered in 1998) and a ballet, La Fermosa (premiered in 2008) as well as over 120 film scores.
With British composer KUMO he released two CDs, Masters of Confusion (2001) and Axolotl Eyes (2008) and a DVD of their sound installation Flies, Guys and Choirs (originally commissioned by the Barbican Centre). In 2008 he also released his second Anthology - Soundtracks (1994 - 2008) and the original score to the Wim Wenders film Palermo Shooting which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.
Schmidt's sound-journeys combine what is usually opposed: Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classic, Electronic, Ambient, Drum'n' Bass, Walz, Oriental... He is a musical alchemist. The unusual paths Schmidt choses for his compositions were celebrated in 2010, when the prestigious Festival Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele presented a gala evening in his honor. Schmidt conducted the Orchestra of the Schlossfestspiele and presented a selection of his work to great critical acclaim. In 2012 the CAN Label Spoon Records released The Lost Tapes, a 3 CD Can Box of previously unreleased Can material curated by Irmin Schmidt. The following year he released his double CD compilation Villa Wunderbar, a selection of his solo work and work for film (curated by Wim Wenders).
In 2015 Irmin Schmidt was knighted by the French Ministry of Culture and received the highly prestigious medal Chevalier De L'Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres for his contribution to art and music. The same year Spoon Records released his 12 CD box Electro Violet - a complete set of Schmidts work (6 solo CDs and 6 Soundtrack CDs).
In 2016 Irmin - in collaboration with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) - performed a live composition at the Louvre, Paris to the film STREET by English artist/film maker James Nares.
At The Can Project Event in April 2017, Irmin presented Can Dialog, a new composition for large orchestra by Schmidt and G. Schwellenbach as well as Schmidt’s ballet La Fermosa and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the prestigious London art centre The Barbican. The orchestral part was followed by an Homage a CAN concert curated and presented by Thurston Moore.
May 2018 saw the release of the Can book The Story Of Can – All Gates Open. The book in two parts presents a biography written by Rob Young and a second part „Can Kiosk“ written by Irmin Schmidt, a collage of diary entires and interviews. The book is already in the second re-print.
Irmin is currently working on his new composition Filmmusiken together with Gregor Schwellenbach with whom he already wrote Can Dialog. The piece – an orchestration of several of Schmidt’s soundtracks - premiered at the International Film Festival Braunschweig in November 2018 where Irmin conducted the Staatsorchester Braunschweig. In December 2018 he took the composition to the Volksbühne Berlin where Irmin conducted the Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg.
In November 2018 Spoon Records will release Irmin’s new piano solo album 5 Klavierstücke.
Jehan Stefan is a music arranger, orchestrator, teacher and blogger, born and raised in Paris, France. In 2010 he founded Jehan Stefan Music Service, which provides orchestration and music preparation for composers, arrangers and orchestrators.
Jehan Stefan is a music arranger, orchestrator, teacher and blogger, born and raised in Paris, France. In 2010 he founded Jehan Stefan Music Service, which provides orchestration and music preparation for composers, arrangers and orchestrators mostly from Paris, London and Hollywood.
So far, he has orchestrated or done the music preparation of about 3000 cues on more than 100 projects for concert stages, TV shows (BBC’sCall The Midwife), video games, theme parks (Asterix) and movies (Fast and Furious 6, A Dog’s Purpose, Girl, etc ...), which generated more than one billion dollars at the box office and are “heard” 24/7 worldwide by millions of people each year.
Jehan Stefan had the pleasure to work for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony or Cesar Award Nominated or Winning artists such as Philippe Rombi, Maurizio Malagnini, Amine Bouhafa, Eric Neveux, Valentin Hadjadj, Romain Trouillet, Gregoire Auger, Nicolas Errera, Christophe Julien, Rachel Portman, Jean-Benoit Dunckel from “Air”, Matthieu Gonet, Mathieu Lamboley, Erwann Chandon, Romain Allender and even Alan Menken for the Las Vegas Show Le Rêve, assisting Jerome Leroy.
He studied music at Conservatoire de Paris, La Sorbonne University and Berklee Online. The teachers he has studied under were students (or students of the students) of Maurice Ravel, Paul Dukas, Leonard Bernstein and Olivier Messiaen. His Hollywood orchestration/arranging mentors Jeff Atmajian, Conrad Pope and Nan Schwartz have worked for legends such as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Andre Previn, Barbra Streisand or Natalie Cole.
In his free time, he shares and teaches his passion for music and cinema on his YouTube channel and blog, both in English and French, with interviews of great musicians such as Lalo Schifrin, music analysis of scores from John Williams, Jazz or the Classical Repertoire.
Josef Steinbüchel ist Gründer und Inhaber der 'Torus GmbH Filmtonpostproduktion' in Köln. Er ist tätig als Sound Supervisor und Sound Designer für Kino, TV und Werbung.
Josef Steinbüchel is the founder and owner of Torus GmbH Sound Postproduction in Cologne. He works as Sound Supervisor and Sound Designer for Feature Film, Television and Commercials.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura is a professor of marketing at IUBH University of Applied Sciences. Since 2016 his research has focused on topics such artificial creativity, music, technology experiences and general consumer behavior.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura is a professor of marketing at IUBH University of Applied Sciences (Bad Honnef, Germany). Originally from Brazil, Prof. Dr. Tigre Moura concluded a PhD in marketing in 2012 at the University of Otago in New Zealand where he was awarded for exceptional thesis. Since 2016 his research has focused on topics such artificial creativity, music, technology experiences and general consumer behavior. Some of his recent studies has focused on listeners’ perceptions of artificially composed music.
Trüpel was a Member of Parliament of the City State of Bremen 1987-1991 and 1995 to 2004. She served as a Senator for Culture 1991-1995 in Bremen and was a MEP and Vice-President of Culture Committee of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2019.
Helga Trüpel, 1958 born in Moers, Northrhine-Westfalia, PHD at Bremen University, was a Member of Parliament of the City State of Bremen 1987-1991 and 1995 to 2004. She served as a Senator for Culture 1991-1995 in Bremen and was a MEP and Vice-President of Culture Committee of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2019. Now she works with her company Agentur Art.
Since completing his diploma as a sound and video engineer, Andreas Turnwald has worked for more than 15 years as a sound mixer for feature and documentary films. He is currently developing new media systems at a research institute.
Since completing his diploma as a sound and video engineer, Andreas Turnwald has worked for more than 15 years as a sound mixer for feature and documentary films. He is currently developing new media systems at a research institute.
Jack Wall is an ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA nominated composer best known for his rich, cinematic scores found within popular video game franchises ("Call of Duty: Black Ops II, III, & 4", "Mass Effect I & II", "the Myst series", "Jade Empire").
Jack Wall is an ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA nominated composer best known for his rich, cinematic scores found within popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty: Black Ops II, III, & 4, Mass Effect I & II, the Myst series, Jade Empire and several other franchises winning multiple awards for his work. Most recently Wall scored the supernatural drama television series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments airing on Disney’s Freeform TV as well as the latest record-breaking entry in the blockbuster Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. He has also written additional music score for numerous other TV series including the fantasy drama series Reign on the CW and Emerald City on NBC as well as scoring the hi-octane action film Hard Target 2 available on Netflix.
Wall is celebrated among a Hollywood elite of composers invited to score the world’s biggest interactive entertainment property, Call of Duty. For Black Ops II he crafted an adrenaline-fueled, deeply emotional and adventurous musical palette that took the blockbuster series in new sonic directions. Black Ops II received the Best Video Game Score Award at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. Reuniting with Treyarch Studios and Activision for Black Ops III, his follow-up score displays the hallmarks of an epic, sophisticated narrative, combining futuristic hybrid sounds, homages to classic WWII orchestral music and even big band and swing numbers created specifically for the popular Zombies campaign. Featuring highlight solo performances from contemporary jazz vocalist Antonia Bennett, daughter of legendary singer Tony Bennett, Black Ops III was nominated GameTrailers’ Soundtrack of the Year. Wall’s unique approach for Black Ops 4 once again breaks from traditional video game scores with an array of brand new swinging jazz numbers, an ethereal new arrangement of the fan-favorite Zombies mode song, Where Are We Going? (featuring a children’s choir with the Los Angeles Singers and Malukah), as well as an original cinematic score including the heroic orchestral anthem Alister's Theme, described by Forbes as “One of the series’ best yet.”
Collaborating with the world’s leading game studios, Wall is widely recognized for composing some of the most iconic scores for the medium. Wall created the distinctive musical signature for BioWare’s sci-fi epic Mass Effect, combining ’80s electronica, synthetic instrumentation and futuristic atmospheres. The soundtrack won numerous accolades, while achieving cult status with fans. Wall received British Academy (BAFTA) and Spike TV nominations for his work on Mass Effect 2.
Composing for and conducting a full symphony orchestra and master chorale, Wall first garnered attention with his dramatic score for Ubisoft’s Myst III: Exile, receiving universal critical acclaim including several Soundtrack of the Year honors. For the climactic sequel, Myst IV: Revelation, Wall was awarded Music of the Year at the Game Developers Conference.
With Jade Empire, Wall crafted a Chinese and Asian instrumental palette incorporating an “East meets West” approach. Working with authentic Pan-Asian instruments Wall crafted an exotic, percussion-driven score to enhance the mythological Chinese setting. The score was voted Best Original Soundtrack Album by the Game Audio Network Guild.
In addition to his composing achievements, Wall served as Music Director and co-producer for composer/librettist Cindy Shapiro’s PSYCHE: A Modern Rock Opera, an innovative modern retelling of the ancient Greek. He also co-created Video Games Live and served as its Music Director/Conductor from 2005 through 2010 performing with more than fifty of the world’s finest orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and London Philharmonia Orchestra.
Wall was co-founder of the Game Audio Network Guild and is a frequent speaker/instructor at various educational institutions such as Columbia College, USC, UCLA, Expressions Center for New Media, The Los Angeles Recording School and Berklee College in Boston.
Continuing to raise the bar for emotional, performance-driven scores at the highest level, Wall’s repertoire encompasses a diverse range of musical styles and influences: from ethereal ambience, choral crescendos and heavy tribal orchestra to traditional Asian, Middle-Eastern, Eastern European instrumentation, futuristic electronic soundscapes and big band jazz recorded with the world’s top musicians.
Amelia Warner (born 1982 in Merseyside, England) is a young British neo-classical composer. In 2019, Amelia was the winner of the Breakthrough Composer Of The Year at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards.
Amelia Warner is a young British neo-classical composer. In 2016, she scored her first feature length film – Mum’s List – and in 2018 completed her second for the film Mary Shelley, which was nominated for Discovery Of The Year at the World Soundtrack Awards. In 2019, Amelia was the winner of the Breakthrough Composer Of The Year at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards.
Well-known for her acclaimed work in the indie genre where she composed, collaborated and performed as Slow Moving Millie, one of her works for piano and strings from this period received much media attention after it was used in an advert by Orange and another was chosen in 2011 for the big seasonal moment in the John Lewis Christmas advert.
Amelia's first major project was scoring British short film Mam, which won several awards on the film festival circuit. In 2018 she composed the music for anther British short - Leading Lady Parts which premiered on BBC Four.
Working with an old midi keyboard, Warner came to Universal a new EP titled Arms, produced by Fyfe Dangerfield. These five poignant, textured pieces for grand piano took Warner to No. 1 in the iTunes classical music charts. Following Arms came her second EP Visitors, which featured 7 songs each based off of a fictional female character and gave her another No. 1 on iTunes.
Born in Merseyside in 1982, the only child of actors Alun Lewis and Anita Ekblom, Amelia Warner first made a name for herself as an actor. She starred in the 2001 BBC production of R.D. Blackmore’s Lorna Doone, and soon established herself as a performer of quiet insight in films such as Philip Kaufman’s Quills, Adam Rap’s Winter Passing and Stephen Wooley’s Brian Jones biography, Stoned. On the set, in down time, Warner would compose music and write songs, a passion that had been there since childhood.
The attorney Peter Wiechmann takes care of the general conditions of the acquisition of rights in the film and music sector for the ARD and is also active as an ARD representative on the advisory board of the VFF.
Attorney Peter Wiechmann, born 1964 in Neuwied am Rhein, studied law at the University of Bonn. In addition to studying, he worked as a journalist and photographer, then he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bielefeld with questions of international copyright. In 1994 he came to public service broadcasting, first as a legal trainee and later as an employee of the Justiterate of the WDR. In 1996 he moved to the SDR in Stuttgart and since 1998 has worked in the legal department of the SWR in Mainz. There he focuses on issues of copyright, utterance and labor law. He is responsible for the general conditions of rights acquisition in the film and music sector for the ARD and is also active as an ARD representative on the advisory board of the VFF collecting society of film and television producers. He is a lecturer for press and media law at the University of Darmstadt.
Over the last 25 years, Stefan Will has established himself as a composer in the field of film and television. He was awarded two TV-Awards for the series 4 Blocks and the Sat1 Film Mordkommission Berlin 1.
Over the last 25 years, Stefan Will has established himself as a composer in the field of film and television. He was awarded two Fernsehpreis-Awards for the series 4 Blocks and the Sat1 Film Mordkommission Berlin 1. Since 1995, he composes on behalf of author/director Christian Petzold as well as other renowned directors like Nina Grosse, Thomas Stuber, Stefan Krohmer, Edward Berger, Rick Osterman and more.
Moreover, he is responsible for designing international installations as composer and musical director, such as the Arab Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2012 in Yeosu, and the Mobility Pavilion for Expo 2020 in Dubai.
He is a member of the German and the European Film Academy.
Robert Williams is an U.S.-qualified entertainment lawyer with over 14 years of deal-making experience. He advises on soundtrack album agreements, music administration, co-publishing deals, recording and synchronization licenses and more.
Mr. Williams is a U.S.-qualified entertainment lawyer with over 14 years of deal-making experience, ten of which were with leading global law firms. He advises each step of the motion picture production process, from development to financial structuring of production to distribution and licensing. Mr. Williams further advises on soundtrack album agreements, music administration and co-publishing deals, recording and synchronization licenses, master licenses and composer agreements.
His clients include production companies, film funds, distributors, composers and writers. Mr. Williams has been accorded credit for his legal work on many film productions, most recently The Wife starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce.
Erik Winker has been working in the field of documentary for over 15 years. In 2008 he was a co-founder of the production company HUPE Film (now called CORSO Film) with offices in Cologne and Stuttgart, which produced many successful films.
Erik Winker has been working in the field of documentary for over 15 years. In 2008 he was a co-founder of the production company HUPE Film which is now running under the new name CORSO Film with offices in Cologne and Stuttgart. The company has been responsible for successful films such as Work Hard Play Hard by Carmen Losmann (FIPRESCI Prize DOK Leipzig, Grimme Award), Searching Eva by Pia Hellenthal (Berlinale Panorama, Special Mention CPH:DOX, Audience Award Athens, IDFA, HOT DOCS, Sheffield and many more), Fighter by Susanne Binninger (German Camera Award, preselected for the German Film Awards) or Happy by Carolin Genreith (German Critics' Award, Best Documentary Film Festival Bozen, preselected for the German Film Awards) and international co-productions like A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Documentary Competition Sundance, Main Competition IDFA, preselected for the European Film Awards), 15 Corners Of The World by Zuzanna Solakiewicz (Award of the Semaine le la Critique Locarno, International Competition DOK Leipzig) or Aida's Secrets by Alon Schwarz (Hot Docs Toronto, Audience Award Doc Aviv).
Erik Winker holds teaching assignments at the University Of Applied Sciences Mainz and the ifs Cologne. He is working as a tutor for international workshops like Dok.Incubator and Documentary Campus and is a regular member in festival and funding juries. He's a former chairman of the regional filmmaker's association Filmbüro NW and a member of the German Film Academy.
Iva Zabkar has been working as a composer for film & media for more than 10 years. She is co-founder of the female fronted label Beatzarilla and the collective track15 - female composers collective. Iva lives and works in Vienna.
Iva Zabkar has been working as a composer for film & media for more than 10 years. She has composed music for feature films (e.g. Womit haben wir das verdient D: Eva Spreitzhofer P: Mona Film), television films (e.g. Curling für Eisenstadt D: Andreas Schmied), commercials and numerous short films. Projects she has worked on have been screened and honored at countless festivals around the world. Her Tatort-debut Rebecca, directed by Umut Dag, reached nearly 11 million viewers. Iva Zabkar teaches at the Pop Academy/JSBM Music School and gives workshops. She is co-producer of the electronic art pop project iNANA and kotomaki and co-founder of the female fronted label Beatzarilla and the collective track15 - female composers colletive. Iva lives and works in Vienna.
