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Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning film composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music.

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Mychael Danna

Lifetime Achievement Award 2023

Michael Beckmann

Michael Beckmann is a renowned bassist, film composer and music consultant. He is co-founder of the RAINBIRDS and has written numerous successful chart productions and film scores.

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Michael Beckmann

Bassist, Film Composer, Music Consultant

Stefan Behrisch

Stefan Behrisch is an active worldwide composer, arranger, conductor and music producer. His work includes film scores and orchestral productions. He has collaborated with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

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Stefan Behrisch

Composer, Conductor, Music Producer

Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka

Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023 he won a BAFTA and Oscar in the Best Original Score category for All Quiet on the Western Front.

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Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka

Composer

Yevgeni Birkhoff

Yevgeni Birkhoff works as a composer, music producer, and sound designer. He creates music for media and international large scale event productions, composes and produces songs, and engages in the creation of acoustic sound art.

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Yevgeni Birkhoff

Composer, Sound Designer

Helge Borgarts

Helge Borgarts is a freelance composer and producer. He is programme manager for games music at SoundTrack_Cologne. His references include work for the developers Crytek, Deck13, Spitfire Audio, Steinberg, Stratotainment and phenomedia.

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Helge Borgarts

Video Game Composer

Philipp Budweg

Philipp Budweg is a award-winning German film producer and co-founder of Lieblingsfilm GmbH. He has been a member of the German and European Film Academy since 2012.

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Philipp Budweg

Film Producer

Doreen Damm

Doreen Damm is sub-department head rights acquisition in ZDF rights management. Her main areas of activity are: collecting societies, music copyright/royalties, reporting issues, photo and footage rights.

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Doreen Damm

Lawyer

Dascha Dauenhauer

Dascha Dauenhauer won the German Film Award and the European Film Award for Best Original Score in the film Berlin Alexanderplatz. Her latest work is the score for The Swarm, the most expensive German TV series of all times.

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Dascha Dauenhauer

Film Composer

Jessica de Rooij

In the last decade, Jessica de Rooij has expanded her work as a composer for cinema and television to do music supervising. She has scored more than 40 feature films, among them the TV series “SISI” and the Netflix hit “Blood & Gold”.

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Jessica de Rooij

Composer, Pianist, Music Supervisor

Mara Deuschle

Mara Deuschle has been working in the music industry for over a decade as a concert promoter and artist manager. In 2021 she started working in music licensing and she is now the global sync manager for APL Publishing.

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Mara Deuschle

Sync Manager

Martin Dirkov

The Danish film composer, sound designer, and musician Martin Dirkov composed the score for Cannes Competition contender Holy Spider, directed by Ali Abbasi, and critically acclaimed “Gräns” (Border) by Ali Abassi.

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Martin Dirkov

Composer

Valerie Dobbelaere

Valerie Dobbelaere is the founder of Strike A Score, a PR agency for European screen composers

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Valerie Dobbelaere

Publicist

Brian D’Oliveira

Brian D’Oliveira is a multi-award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and creative technologist from Montreal, Canada. He is the founder of La Hacienda creative Studios and the director of MNTRA Instruments.

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Brian D’Oliveira

Composer, Musician, Creative Technologist

Marc du Moulin

Marc du Moulin is Secretary General of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance). He has an in-depth understanding of the functioning of the creative industries and an extensive experience in European Affairs.

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Marc du Moulin

ECSA Secretary General

Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Lauded, César-nominated composer for films such as François Ozon’s film Summer of 85. He wants to make listeners feel “ready to travel in space”, he says. “Music brings energy and I want them to feel this energy.”

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Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Composer, Film Composer

Dr. Yati Durant

Dr. Yati Durant is a U.S. born composer, lecturer, trumpeter and conductor.  He is head of AcadeMeet (formerly EEAMS) at SoundTrack_Cologne and IMMSANE.

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Dr. Yati Durant

Composer, Lecturer, Musician

Dr. Stefan Ellenberg

Dr. Stefan Ellenberg is a certified lawyer for IP rights with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He currently serves as the Head of Business Affairs at the music and media law firm Gutsch & Schlegel in Hamburg.

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Dr. Stefan Ellenberg

Lawyer

Jon Everist

Jon Everist is a multi-award winning and ASCAP-nominated composer for games and films. His credits include writing the music for the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning video game BattleTech.

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Jon Everist

Composer for Games and Film

André Feldhaus

André Feldhaus is a composer and has composed the music for more than 130 television and cinema productions so far, for example for "4 Könige", "Die Liebe des Hans Albers", "Nordstrand", and "Tatort".

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André Feldhaus

Film Music Composer

Milena Fessmann

Milena Fessmann is a musicsupervisor, radio host, producer and DJ.

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Milena Fessmann

Music Supervisor, Radio host, Producer, DJ

Marie-Hélène Froidevaux

After over a decade in the Music Industry, Marie-Hélène Froidevaux founded her Publishing Company "Interstellar Music" in 2016.

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Marie-Hélène Froidevaux

Music Supervisor

Annette Gentz

Annette Gentz is one of Germany’s premiere agents for film and stage music. She is Founder of 'Annette Gentz I Music & Film Arts' and General Manager of Universal Music Publishing Classics & Screen Germany/ Austria/ Switzerland.

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Annette Gentz

Agent, Film and Stage Music

Dr. Tilo Gerlach

Dr. Tilo Gerlach is the Managing Director at GVL since 2001. He is President of AEPO-ARTIS and SCAPR as well as a lecturer at the Humboldt University Berlin and created numerous publications on copyright and on the rights of performing artists.

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Dr. Tilo Gerlach

Music Politics

Oliver Graber

Oliver Peter Graber works internationally as a composer, pianist and dramaturge, focusing on interdisciplinary projects. He codirects the “Research Institute for Music-Medicine with a special focus on Arts for Health”.

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Oliver Graber

Composer, Pianist, Dramaturge

Gabriele Graf

As a freelance producer Gabriele Graf develops and produces films and series for television under the umbrella of selected production companies.

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Gabriele Graf

Producer

Melissa Graj

Melissa Graj is a German producer. In 2017 she joined Warner Bros. ITVP Germany

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Melissa Graj

producer

John Groves

John Groves is a British composer, musician, and producer who has specialised in Sound Branding and the use of sound and music in communications. Today he is focused on psychoacoustics and the use of sound in a healthcare context.

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John Groves

Composer, Musician, Producer

Ryan Groves

Ryan Groves is a composer, machine-learning expert and entrepreneur. He is the CTO and co-founder of Infinite Album, the first AI-driven music composer for video games. He is one of the directors of the AI Song Contest.

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Ryan Groves

Composer, Machine-learning Expert

Verena Guido

Verena Guido is a composer, librettist, multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter. She has written music/lyrics for a large number of stage productions all across Germany before shifting her focus to composing for radio plays, podcasts and TV.

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Verena Guido

Composer, Singer and Multi-Instrumentalist

Valentin Hadjadj

Valentin Hadjadj is a French film composer. He signed the music of a dozen feature films including those of Lukas Dhont, "Girl" (Camera d'or Cannes 2018) and "Close" (Grand Prix Cannes 2022, nominated for an Oscar).

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Valentin Hadjadj

Film Composer

Martin Häne

Martin Häne is a Publisher of currently 6 different Production Music labels for both major distributors as well as independents. Before becoming a music publisher, Häne worked for 10+ years as a composer.

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Martin Häne

Music Publisher

Vasco Hexel

Vasco Hexel is a media composer, author and educator, who ran the masters Programme in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, London. He composed music for award-winning animators, documentaries, commercials, and feature films.

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Vasco Hexel

Composer, Author and Educator

Natalie Holt

Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known for her two-time Emmy-nominated score for Marvel Studios’ Loki and the acclaimed Lucasfilm series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Natalie Holt

Composer

Matthias Hornschuh

Matthias Hornschuh lives and works as a film and radio play composer in Cologne. Hornschuh is involved in industry and cultural politics, among others in the professional association mediamusic, in the Landesmusikrat NRW and in the supervisory board.

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Matthias Hornschuh

Composer

Kathrin Jahrreiss

Kathrin Jahrreiss is a freelance interpreter for Italian and English, mainly for TV news channels. In 2011 she entered the field of documentary filmmaking and is currently working on her film about her German-Jewish family.

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Kathrin Jahrreiss

Author, Director

Philipp Jedicke

Philipp Jedicke moved to Cologne in 2001, where he graduated and worked as a freelance cultural journalist specialising in music and film. In 2018, he premiered "Shut Up and Play the Piano". "Vienna Calling" is his second feature documentary.

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Philipp Jedicke

Journalist, Director

Cody Johnson

As an in-demand composer and producer, Cody’s creative approach of an irreverent fusion of contemporary styles is featured on a wide cross section of video games.

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Cody Johnson

Composer and Music producer

Sascha Just

Sascha Just is a New York-based filmmaker born and raised in Berlin. She emigrated to the US to work on films about jazz-related topics. Prior to Ellis, Sascha produced and directed the length documentary Heirs, the shorts Big Chief, and Ambassadors.

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Sascha Just

Film Producer

Jörg Kidrowski

Jörg Kidrowski is working as a production sound mixer since 2003. He worked on more than 100 projects national and international, , always driven by "the good sound" on different levels.

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Jörg Kidrowski

production sound mixer

Cornelia Köhler

Cornelia Köhler has been working in the media industry since 2000. She works as an independent script-writer for cinema, TV formats and stage. She presents discussion panels, film talks and networking events and is a dedicated networker.

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Cornelia Köhler

Author, Presenter, Director

Hansjörg Kohli

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.

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Hansjörg Kohli

Composer

Dr. Anselm Kreuzer

Dr. Anselm Kreuzer is a proven specialist for TV title music, station IDs, soundtracks for series and TV drama as well as music for new media and advertising. He sets soundtracks for series like "In aller Freundschaft" and "Rosenheim-Cops".

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Dr. Anselm Kreuzer

Composer

Jan-Paul Laarmann

Jan-Paul Laarmann`s professional mission is the promotion of creative industries in Cologne.

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Jan-Paul Laarmann

Economic development agency of Cologne

Andrea Lässig

Andrea Lässig has studied music tuition, french horn and music journalism. Since 2012, she has been part of the team of Music Supervisors at Bayerischer Rundfunk.

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Andrea Lässig

Music Supervisor, Musician

Martin Langenbach

Martin Langenbach founded his own foley studio based in Hamburg in 2008. He is a founding member of the Deutsche Filmakademie.

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Martin Langenbach

Foley Artist

Tessa Langhans

Tessa is Junior Producer in the Fiction Department of Warner Bros. International Television Production Germany in Cologne for the ZDF series "Wilsberg".

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Tessa Langhans

Junior Producer

Dimitrie Leivici

Dimitrie Leivici is a concert violinist and concertmaster. With his participation in over a thousand Hollywood motion pictures in the last 45 years, he has established himself as one of the foremost experienced studio musicians in Hollywood.

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Dimitrie Leivici

Violinist, Concertmaster, Studio Musician

PeterLicht

PeterLicht is a musician, singer, author and dramatist. He received the 3sat prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition for his book 'Die Geschichte meiner Einschätzung am Anfang des 3. Jahrtausends'.

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PeterLicht

Musician, Singer, Author, Dramatist

Sophie Linnenbaum

Sophie Linnenbaum is a German film producer and director. She won the First Steps Award for Best Evening Feature Film at the Munich Film Festival with her feature film THE ORDINARIES. She lives in Berlin.

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Sophie Linnenbaum

Director, Film Producer

Leonard Loock

Leonard Loock is a music producer and sound engineer specialized in classical and film music. He began his musical journey as a cellist, garnering recognition through national and international awards.

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Leonard Loock

Music Producer, Sound Engineer, Cellist

Hanna Sophie Lüke

Hanna Sophie Lüke (M.A.) is a music composer, music journalist and presenter for music and science topics (WDR, ARTE) based in Cologne, Germany.

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Hanna Sophie Lüke

Composer, Music Journalist, Presenter

Nami Melumad

Nami Melumad is an Israeli-Dutch composer, based in Los Angeles, CA. Nami won the BMI award for the Oscar® winning documentary short, Colette.

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Nami Melumad

Composer

Thomas Mikusz

Thomas Mikusz was born in Vienna, but now lives in Los Angeles. As co-founder of White Bear PR, he spearheaded the campaigns for the Oscar-nominated film score and best original song for Everything Everywhere All At Once, among others.

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Thomas Mikusz

White Bear PR

Ali Nikrang

Ali Nikrang is a professor for AI and musical creation at the HMTM in Munich and a AI researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz. He has participated in numerous projects that combine artificial intelligence and music.

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Ali Nikrang

AI Researcher, Composer

Flemming Nordkrog

Flemming Nordkrog is a Danish composer based in France.  Winner of HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award and winner of the Danish Award Carl Prisen 2021 for his score for Mathias Mariani's ‘Shine your Eyes’.

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Flemming Nordkrog

Film composer

Lone Nyhuus

Lone Nyhuus is, since 2007, the general manager for the Danish Association of Film and Mediacomposers (BFM). Nyhuus holds a BA in theatre, dance and cultural communication, and has worked for 20 years as a freelance journalist.

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Lone Nyhuus

General Manager of BFM, Journalist

Tina Pepper

Tina Pepper is an award-winning television and film composer from Berlin. In 2020 she was awarded the German Television Award for her music for 'Rampensau'.

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Tina Pepper

Composer

Martina Pfaff

Martina Pfaff studied musicology and ethnology. She worked at German und international opera houses as a stage manager and director. Her directing work, mainly for WDR, BR and ARTE, includes dance and concert films, documentaries and music videos.

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Martina Pfaff

Director

Corinna C. Poeszus

Corinna C. Poeszus is a senior business executive with over 30 years experience in the music, digital media & film production, advertising and tv entertainment industries driven by the power of passion and an open mind to think outside the box.

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Corinna C. Poeszus

Chief Licensing Officer - freque.io

Franziska Pohlmann

As a director and composer, Franziska Pohlmann is known for her strong musical approach in her cinematic work. Since 2023 she has been part of the jury of the Film Rating Board FBW for Lower Saxony.

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Franziska Pohlmann

Director, Composer

Silke Pützer

Silke Pützer, born in 1974, has been a producer at Network Movie since December 2003 and has responsibility for various TV film and series projects.

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Silke Pützer

Producer

Johannes Rexin

Johannes Rexin is a German producer and founder of REXINFILM. He focuses on the development and production of high-quality feature films and TV series of German and European origin.

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Johannes Rexin

Producer

Carlos Rafael Rivera

Carlos Rafael Rivera is a Grammy and two-time Emmy winning composer, whose career has spanned several genres of the music industry best known for "The Queen´s Gambit".

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Carlos Rafael Rivera

Composer

Anna Rosenkilde

Anna Rosenkilde is a Danish film composer, songwriter, instrumentalist, singer and performer. In 2022 she started the network Polyphonia in Denmark - a network for women and other gender minorities in the film and media music composition business.

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Anna Rosenkilde

Film Composer, Musician

Corinna Rottschy

After studying music in schools, Corinna Rottschy studied vocals and was employed at WDR, first as a speaker and then as a broadcasting editor. She has been manager of the WDR Funkhausorchester since 2014.

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Corinna Rottschy

Orchestral Manager

Sanna Salmenkallio

Sanna Salmenkallio is one of the most experienced film composers in Finland. She has composed the score for more than 30 films, mostly artistically ambitious documentary features.

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Sanna Salmenkallio

Film composer

Jørund Fluge Samuelsen

Jørund Fluge Samuelsen has the last 15 years scored for a wide variety of television series, radio drama and short films.

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Jørund Fluge Samuelsen

Composer

Frank Scheffer

Documentary maker and experimental filmmaker

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Frank Scheffer

Director, documentary maker and film maker

Nicole Schmeier

Nicole Schmeier is a film editor.

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Nicole Schmeier

Film editor

Ralf Schulze

Ralf Schulze is Music Publisher and Festival director of UNERHÖRT! Hamburg

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Ralf Schulze

Music Publisher, Festival Director

Sarah Schygulla

Sarah Schygulla has a Drama degree and a joint Bachelor's degree in Romance Languages, Literature, and Linguistics and Asian Literature and Societies. She writes novels and screenplays.

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Sarah Schygulla

Author, Curator, Presenter, Digital Marketing Specialist

Helene Seidl

Helene Seidl already specialized in film sound post-production during her studies in image and sound technology. She works as a foley and sound editor for German and international productions and lectures sound editing at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg

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Helene Seidl

Foley and Sound Editor, Lecturer

Mirjam Skal

Mirjam Skal is a composer and orchestrator based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Mirjam Skal

Composer and orchestrator

Jacob Snavely

Jacob Snavely is the director of OONA, an internationally oriented management agency, record label, and publisher based in Stockholm. He represents and manages a small group of score composers.

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Jacob Snavely

Su-Jin Song

Su-Jin Song is the founder of autumn song production. In addition, she is also working as an associate researcher and lecturer at the Cologne Game Lab/TH Köln.

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Su-Jin Song

Writer, Director and Producer

Janne Spijkervet

Janne Spijkervet is a music producer and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. She works on TikTok's speech, audio and music intelligence research and development team, where she develops cutting-edge music technology at scale.

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Janne Spijkervet

Music Producer, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Andreas Suttner

Andreas Suttner has studied violoncello and music tuition and has been awarded as a cellist at several well-known contests. As a musician, he works as a soloist and in different ensembles.

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Andreas Suttner

Cellist, music manager and promoter

Florian Tessloff

Florian Tessloff is a award-winning German composer and producer. He has composed numerous soundtracks for film & TV, such as for the Oscar-nominated film "The Baader Meinhof Complex".

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Florian Tessloff

Composer, Producer

Thomas Theune

Thomas Theune started his professional career at GEMA in January 2006. Currently, he is responsible for the licensing of public and commercial television and radio stations, cable retransmission and online licensing.

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Thomas Theune

Director of Broadcasting and Online, GEMA

Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre-Moura

Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura is a professor of marketing at IU University of Applied Sciences (Bad Honnef, Germany).

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Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre-Moura

Academic, Researcher

Antonia Uhl

She studied film directing at the ifs international filmschool. Since her graduation she is working as a freelance director, producer and writer. She is currently developing several tv series as well as her debut feature.

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Antonia Uhl

Director, Producer, Writer

Katharina Uppenbrink

Katharina Uppenbrink has been the managing director of Initiative Urheberrecht (Authors’ Rights Initiative) since May 2014. She worked for various publishing houses and has been managing director of the Association of German Screenwriters (VDD).

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Katharina Uppenbrink

Managing Director

Camille van Lunen

Camille van Lunen is a German composer for songs, chamber music and operas who received commissions e.g. from the Kölner Philharmonie, Acht Brücken Festival, Basel Sinfonietta and Mädchen Kantorei, Festival de Musique Vocale Contemporaine.

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Camille van Lunen

Composer

Andreas Vierziger

Andreas Vierziger is an internationally acclaimed music curator and strategist. He collaborates with project partners in the music industry and beyond, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Paris Opera Competition and Camerata Salzburg.

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Andreas Vierziger

Music Curator, Strategist, Music Supervisor

Rosalie Vos

In 2021, after gaining 7 years of experience in composer management, Rosalie Vos started her own artist management company in Berlin. She have represented composers like Dustin O’Halloran, A Winged Victory For The Sullen and Volker Bertelmann.

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Rosalie Vos

Composer Manager

Isobel Waller-Bridge

Isobel Waller-Bridge is an award-winning composer known for her scores for film, television and theatre, alongside her work in electronic and contemporary classical music.

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Isobel Waller-Bridge

Composer

Hanse Warns

Hanse Warns is a German foleymixer and foley supervisor with over 200 Credits for foley recordings on german and international feature films, such as "Cloud Atlas", "The International", "Babylon Berlin" and "All Quiet on the Western Front".

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Hanse Warns

Foleymixer, Foley Supervisor

Klaus Waßen-Floren

Klaus Waßen-Floren is a German sound supervisor and sound designer. He is credited with countless TV and series projects, including more than 50 productions of the famous ARD crime series "Tatort".

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Klaus Waßen-Floren

Sound Supervisor, Sound Designer

Mareike Wegener

Mareike Wegener is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and producer. Her company PETROLIO is a filmmakers’ cooperative she runs alongside fellow filmmakers Hannes Lang and Carmen Losmann.

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Mareike Wegener

Film Producer, Writer

Fabian Zeidler

Fabian Zeidler is a composer, orchestrator and arranger, living and working in Berlin, Germany. He works in the fields of film music and concert music. In 2020 he won the WDR Filmscore Award.

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Fabian Zeidler

Composer