Competitions

Jamie Alpherts

Nominee European Talent Competition

Jamie Alpherts is a Dutch/English composer for concert, media, and live performance based in the Netherlands. He finished his bachelor studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2022, together with a Minor in piano and orchestral conducting. Jamie is currently studying film composing at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Jakob Altmann

Nominee European Talent Competition

Jakob was a winner of the Youth Composing Competition „Jugend Komponiert Bayern“ every year from 2020 to 2022.
In 2023, he completed a one-year internship with film composer Martina Eisenreich, taking on tasks such as music production and orchestrating the SWR radioplay „Geschichten aus der Vorstadt des Universums“.
Besides his university studies, Jakob's other current projects include music for a theatre production of the August Everding Academy and scores for student films of the HFF Film University.

Victor Ardelean

Composer

Victor Ardelean, born in Madrid in 1997, is a Spanish, Munich-based composer, arranger and music producer. His symphonic works and arrangements have been performed by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Munich Symphony Orchestra. As a film composer, he has scored several productions for public TV (ARD, ARTE, Terra Mater) and is regularly involved in projects at the University of Television and Film Munich, which have won several awards (including Best Film and Best Sound at the German Youth Film Award 2023). In 2024 he completed his studies in composition for film and media with Prof. Gerd Baumann. He is also co-founder and board member of the Momentbühne e.V. and is thus committed to international cooperation projects in the fields of theatre, music and dance.

Filmo: 

music for film:

2025:
Zu Groß für Später (short film - HFF München)

2024:
Vietnam Nord nach Süd (documentary - ARTE )

2023:
Das Wesen des Wandels (documentary - Terra Mater)
Matriarchate in der Tierwelt: Wenn die Weibchen die Macht haben (documentary - ARTE )
Wind Up (short film - HFF München)
Schattenspiel (short film - HFF München)
Sender & Empfänger (short film - HFF München)

2022:
Bloody Secrets (short film - HFF München)
Planet B (short film - HFF München)
Metamorfon (short film - HFF München)
Wilder Frühling: Tierische Liebe zwischen Oberrhein und Zugspitze (documentary - ARD )
UnVernunft (short film - HFF München)

2021:
Außenseiter (short film - HFF München)
Spuk: Leben mit dem Unheimlichen (miniseries - MDR x ARD)
Walzer im Bademantel (short film - HFF München)

concert music:

Los Pitutos Sinfónicos (orchestral arrangements)
Concert 03.07.2024 @ Isarphilharmonie München
Münchner Symphoniker & Los Pitutos

Glitter Path - für Hackbrett Duo
Premiere 5.11. 2023 @ Kulturverein Haar
Birgitt Stolzenburg & Lisa Schöttl (Tenor-Hackbrett)

Philip Calisto

Composer, Music Producer

Philip Domenico Calisto is a composer, music producer, and musician with a background shaped by movement across cultures and disciplines. Born in Italy and raised in Berlin, he has lived and worked in Latin America, studied composition for film and theatre in the Netherlands, and now calls Berlin home again.

Classically trained in piano and self-taught on bass and drums, he has been making music for over 15 years. He’s curious, intuitive, and driven by a hands-on approach – always exploring, experimenting, and following his gut feeling. From singing at the Berlin Philharmonie as a teenager to opening the Christopher Street Day at the Brandenburg Gate, from working with Musicians Without Borders on the Galápagos Islands to composing music for film and advertising – his journey spans a wide range of genres and creative environments. Along the way, he also gained industry insights during a stint at Sony Music.

Philip speaks four languages fluently and feels at home in collaborative, cross-cultural environments. He is currently building Bonaparte Sonic – the new in-house audio department of Bonaparte Films – where music, storytelling and sound design come together under one roof.

Filmo:

- The Robbery (Short for Amnesty International - 2025)

- ALARBA (Dokumentarischer Kurzfilm, gedreht in Senegal - 2024)

- Paulchen (Kurzfilm für das Porsche Museum - 2024)

- Krocketpartie (2022)

- Campus Galli - Das Abenteuer geht weiter (2022)

- Auf der anderen Seite die Freiheit (2022)

- How I've Met God (2022)

- Weg von hier (2021)

Luis Cantú

Nominee European Talent Competition

Luis Cantú is a Mexican composer and performer born in Mexico City (1994) and deeply passionate about instrumental music. His creative journey revolves around crafting soundscapes, composing pieces for concerts, mixed ensembles, and visual media, as well as arranging works for symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. He thrives in the world of academic music, where he brings his skills as a clarinettist, pianist, and saxophonist to life. Beyond that, he's the founder of the “Monalisa Band,” where his love for collaboration and performance takes center stage.

He began composing for TV and film in high school for a friend who needed an original composition. He later began his studies at the private school "Academia Amadeus", were he learned side reading, piano and clarinet. He then completed his bachelor´s degree at "Academia de Artes de Florencia", were he studied composition. After working as a piano, clarinet and saxophone teacher in a high school, he decided to enrol for a Master´s degree in "Composition for Audio Media and Theater" in Barcelona at the "Fundació Conservatori Liceu". Luis is currently taking private classes with nominated Goya composer Arnau Bataller at the "Escola Superior de Música de Cataluña" (ESMUC) in Spain.

Louis Chenu

Composer

Through symphonic music, electro or pop music; the musical universe of Louis Chenu has poetry as its major inspiration. After training at the CNSMD in Lyon, he composed numerous music for different films. He also worked on the feature film “Les Filles d’Olfa” by Kaouther Ben Hania (Amine Bouhafa’s score assistant). He has received prizes and awards for his work.

His music, sometimes intimate and sometimes whimsical, seeks above all to express the singularity of each story it accompanies.

Filmo:
Short film

Instincts (2024), Lucie Cabon
Happy Deal (2024), Les frères Lopez
No Home Movies (2024), Amaïllia Bordet.
Nirayam (2024) Mukesh Kumaravel.
La chienne et les vautours (2024), Juliette Moncuit.
Papier bulle (2023), Zoé Collard.
La faute à personne (2023), Juliette Moncuit.
Technotherapie (2022), Zoé Collard.
Coffee Racer (2020), Alessandro Brossollet.
Aurore (2020) de Thomas Vanz.
De l’autre côté des montagnes (2019), Nina Doré.
Hôtel La parenthèse (2019), Maxime Kreber.
La boite à curiosités (2019), série YouTube créée par Marie.
Teaser (2019) Festival International du Film d’Aubagne.
The Hunt (2018), Hugo Baurens.
The Stalk (2018), Evance Breteuil.
Les derniers loups (2017), Alix Lenoir.

Feature film

Mourir à 13 ans (2024), Éric Ellena.
Rendez-vous avec Diego (2022), Lucas Morales.
Les fantômes du sanatorium (2020), Frédéric Goldbronn.
Dracula est amoureux (2024), Lucas Morales.
Boundary Waters (2024), Tessa Blake [score assistant of Valentin Hadjadj)
Les filles d’Olfa (2023), Kaouther Ben Hania. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Le temps d’aimer (2023), Katell Quillévéré [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Animalia (2023), Sofia Alaoui. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Polaris (2023), Ainara Vera. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Alma Viva (2022), Cristèle Alves Meira. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Nos frangins (2022), Rachid Bouchareb [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Sous les figues (2022), Erige Sehiri. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]
Nika (2022), Vasilisa Kusmina. [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]

TV Show

Families like ours (2024), Thomas Vinterbeg NETFLIX (score assistant of Valentin Hadjadj)

Tapie (2023), Tristant Séguéla, Olivier Demangel. NETFLIX [score assistant of Amine Bouhafa]

Jamais sans toi, Louna (2019), Yann Samuell. TF1 [score assistant of Cyrille Aufort]

La Veillée (2018), Overlook Media. Diffusée sur C8

Melanie Gäb

Nominee European Talent Competition

Melanie Gäb is a sound designer from Germany and a music instruments enthusiast. She learned her first instrument, the piano, when she was 6 years old and later discovered her love for instruments and sounds. By the age of 18, she had collected around 10-15 different instruments to experiment and play with.

She soon decided to pursue a career in the audio industry and completed s bachelor's degree in 2020. Following her studies, she worked as an audio engineer in various studios, mostly for voice recordings and sound design. Alongside completing her studies and later working in studios, Melanie also worked as a freelancer, for example as a sound designer for the Arthouse short film ("Do You See What I See?").

Clemens Gutjahr

Composer

Clemens Gutjahr works as a composer for film, theater and games.
During his film music studies at the Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, he was involved in numerous short films. He is currently working on a mystery adventure game and the first cinema tour of a feature film is just around the corner. As a jazz pianist, Clemens Gutjahr has released 2 albums with his trio.

Filmo:
Detlev
Moria Six
Das Rotohr
Huldufolk - A Hidden World
Kaulquappe
Once in a blue moon
Radio Europe
Die lauteste Zeit
Giving Dead
Pulli

Michael Kaspar

Nominee European Talent Competition

Michael Kaspar is a composer, sound designer and music producer based in Berlin. In March 2025, he completed his Bachelor's degree in the study programme Audio Design at the SRH Berlin School of Popular Arts. His compositions vary from orchestral pieces over electronic music to experimental sound compositions and soundscapes. In doing so, his focus is on audiovisual art and media such as short films and theatre. He was nominated for the WDR Filmscore Award in both 2022 and 2023.

Stefan Kiechle

Nominee European Talent Competition

Stefan Kiechle is currently studying Ton und Bild at the Robert-Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.
He particularly focuses on composing for media, where he's worked on a variety of projects. He has also studied pop/jazz drums.

Aaron Kolbl

Nominee European Talent Competition

Aaron Kolbl is a sound designer from Oberhausen, Germany. At the age of six, he started playing the drums and later joined a band.
At the “Institut für Musik und Medien”, Aaron discovered the subject of media composition and sound design.
In addition to his studies, Aaron also works as a freelance audio technician and has worked as a boom operator for various university projects. He has also mixed the short movie "Die Reise des Antoine Eden" by Daniel Falkenberg.

Benjamin Alan Kubaczek

Nominee European Talent Competition

Benjamin Alan Kubaczek is a composer, performer, and sound artist working across classical, electroacoustic, and cinematic music. Raised in Japan in a family of artists and scientists, and later living in Austria, Italy, and the USA, his multicultural background has shaped his artistic voice from an early age. He began playing the violin at age three and later became a soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir, performing under conductors like Riccardo Muti and Seiji Ozawa.

He studied voice, organ, and jazz piano, performing everything from Renaissance music to progressive metal, and toured across Europe and India. As a conductor, he has led ensembles such as the Tallinna Philharmonia and the Orchester 1756.

Since 2020, he has focused on electroacoustic composition and is currently pursuing a Master's in Computer music & Sound Art at IEM Graz, also studying with Annette Vande Gorne. His works have been presented at international festivals such as NYCEMF, AudioArt Kraków, and Ars Electronica Forum Wallis. In 2024, he was invited for a residency at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, where he created The Impromptu Series, a cycle of quadraphonic fixed media works. He is also active in film scoring and was nominated for the 2024 WDR Filmscore Award. His film music has been featured at Music & Cinema Marseille, Soundtrack Cologne, and ErnteSehen.

Robert Landskron

Nominee European Talent Competition

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Robert started playing the piano at the age of six. He has always had a keen interest in music, with a soft spot for classical music, loving the sound of the orchestra.
Robert has produced short films for which he wrote his own scores, and from 2019 to 2022, Robert also completed a professional training course as a "Mediengestalter Bild und Ton" at the SWR.

Since 2022, Robert has been studying "Ton und Bild" in Düsseldorf, where he chose an elective course about media composition.

Felix Lopp

Nominee European Talent Competition

Felix Lopp is a freelance jazz pianist, composer and a student at the HMT Leipzig. He studied Jazz piano in Hannover and has worked as a live musician for the last 10 years.

In 2020, Felix I decided to study composition and piano at the HMT in Leipzig, where he developed a growing interest in cinematic music, orchestration and working with sample libraries and DAWs. 
Felix started working as a media composer for the Sat1 Daily "Spreewald Klinik" in 2024, for which he is currently working on season two. 

Gabriel Massé

Nominee European Talent Competition

Gabriel Massé is a student from France. He is currently in his first year of studying sound design at "Studio-M" in Villeurbanne, France.

Marcin Mazurek

Composer

Marcin Mazurek is a Polish composer based in London. A National Film and Television School graduate, he has composed music for projects showcased at major festivals and industry awards, including the BAFTAs (Best British Short Film 2025 – Rock, Paper, Scissors), Festival de Cannes (3rd Prize with Bunnyhood), Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, IDA Documentary Awards and more. In 2024, he was nominated for Best Score at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Filmo:
Nowhere Man (2025)
Rise of the White Ibis (2024)
Knife’s Edge (2024)
Mile 24 (2024)
Engage (2024)
Rock, Paper, Scissors (2024)
The Nobody (2024)
The Little Tattoo (2024)
Nepotist (2024)
Bunnyhood (2024)
The Bunker (2024)
The Virgin (2024)
Deadbolt (2024)
Just A Weekend (2023)
The Man on the Bus (2023)
Bad Indian - The Villain Origin Story (2023)
Hungry For Freedom (2023)
Gates (2023)
Door to Door (2023)
Valhalla’s Forsaken (2023)
A Love Worth Fighting For (2022)
Sleeping Awake (2022)
Doubt Buys The Whiskey (2022)
Meet Me in the West (2022)
Steak (2022)
The Death of Anne Bronte (2022)
Domesticated Animals (2022)
Hope You Feel Better (2022)
The Investigators (2022)
After Tomorrow (2021)
The Promise (2021)
The Undisturbed (2021)
Benny (2021)
A Social (Media) Construct (2021)
Fleeting Light of Man (2021)
The Last Walk (2017)

Marcus Sander

Composer

Marcus graduated in 2019 with a master degree in film scoring at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. His musical language is characterized by
transforming acoustic Instruments into electronic sounds and textures, to create intense emotional contexts in films. He worked several times with the German Film
Orchestra Babelsberg. In addition to his film music career, he is composing and playing guitar in post-black-metal bands.

Filmo:
2025 ZEITZEUGEN (RBB)
2024 MADE IN GERMANY (TV Show ARD)
2024 AS I WAS A TREE
2023 WATCH ME - SEX SELLS (TV Show ZDFneo)
2023 JONNY ISLAND (RBB)
2022 RIM
2021 SWARMERS
2021 FROM THE MAIN SQUARE (VR MOVIE)
2019 SAG DU ES MIR

Xiangming Niu

Nominee European Talent Competition

Xiangming Niu is a composer specializing in music for film, theatre, and concert. She holds bachelor's degree in Composition and Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music. During her studies, she was awarded the George Delerue Memorial Award and Leroy Southers Award. She is currently a second-year Master’s student at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Netherlands Film Academy.

Samuel Pfeil

Nominee European Talent Competition

Samuel Pfeil is currently a student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (University of Music and Theater, Munich), where he is studying "Composition for Film and Media".

Vincent Roy

Nominee European Talent Competition

Vincent Roy is a sound designer and musician originally from France and based in Estonia since 2020.

Vincent grew up studying music from a young age at the local conservatory in France, and has since picked up multiple instruments along the way and produced music in different genres, from folk acoustic guitar to electronic ambient as well as orchestral music.

In 2022, he started a BA in Audiovisual Media at the Baltic Film and Media School of Tallinn to dive deeper into the world of sound recording and sound design for film and TV.

Vincent currently works as a freelancer on short film shoots and post-production sound while finishing his studies. He also focuses on music scoring, adding his unique touch to various projects.

Sam van Stempvoort

Nominee European Talent Competition

Sam van Stempvoort has been producing music since the age of 12, mainly focusing on electronic dance music. He recently completed a part-time music production course, as well as an audio-visual and audio post-production course. 

Lukas Stipar

Composer

Lukas Stipar, born in Augsburg, Germany is studying Composition for Film and Media at the University of Music and Theatre Munich. His compositional style draws from a wide range of musical influences, merging acoustic and electronic elements into intriguing sound worlds.

Filmo:
2024: Into this Wild Abyss, Woodland, Qualia, Fallwild
2025: Looking Glass

Kengo Tokusashi

Composer

Kengo Tokusashi is a composer born in Aomori, Japan in 1980.
He studied composition at Nihon University College of Art and its graduate school.
He received the 20th Japan Society for Contemporary Music Award for Composers and the 1st prize of 10th Tokyo International Competition for Chamber Music Composition.
He has also composed a lot of music for TV, games and films.
He also loves SAUNA. He continues to release a series "MUSIC FOR SAUNA" and he has composed music for actual sauna facilities.

Filmo
Katsuki Tanaka "AltoVision" (2008)
Yoriko Mizushiri "Snow Hut" (2013)
Sho Nagashima/Katsuki Tanaka "Sado" (2019~)
Sota Sugahara "500 Million Years Button" (2022~)
Yoriko Mizushiri "ORDINARY LIFE" (2025)

Lucia Vité

Nominee European Talent Competition

Lucia Vité is a composer and musicology student from Geneva, Switzerland. President of ''Gli alterati'', Lucia is active in student music life. She composes, conducts choirs and orchestras, and performs in a rock band and improvisation jams. Lucia is passionate about contemporary creation and always seeks new ways to make music. Music is my mother tongue, and I love to speak it in all its dialects.

Jiro Yoshioka

Composer

Jiro Yoshioka (*2000) has been studying Film and Media Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich since 2020. Originally trained in cello, piano, and voice, he began composing instrumental and electroacoustic music at 14. He has collaborated with the HFF Munich and NY Tisch School and received composition commissions, including for the YoungPrague Festival. His works have been performed by the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2024.

Filmo:
2020 dumplings
2022 the otherside
2023 Wie schmeckt die Wassermelone?
2023 ZwischenZeit
2023 seat love
2023 Red Lingerie
2023 Did you eat yet?
2023 Medusa
2023 etwaswasbleibt
2023 The silence of 600 million results
2023 GEISTER
2023 Alcohol Knows No Limits
2024 PhantomRide
2024 Coma
2024 Kristallkind
2024 Abyssness
2025 Every Time I Look at you
2023 the Moon and Me