Peer Raben Music Award

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

Michael Chauvistré

Documentary Filmmaker, Cinematographer

Michael Chauvistré was born in 1960 in Aachen. After studying philosophy and history he became a member of the film studio at the Technical University of Aachen. In 1986 Chauvistré began a course at the University for Television and Film in Munich, Feature Department. This was followed in 1988 by the foundation of the production company Happy Endings Film. Since 1990 Michael Chauvistré has been filming his own documentary films and working as a cameraman. His documentaries Rent a Santa Claus, To Moscow with IKEA and Beer Brothers were successful both in international film festivals, German Arthouse Cinemas und Broadcasting. He is member of the German Film Academy and member of Executive Committee of the Directors Guild of Germany BVR and represents BVR as a delegate at the Fédération Européenne des Réalisateurs de l’Audiovisuel FERA. He is member of the EU-Film committee of the German Federal Film Board and Professional Group Chairman of the copyright collecting society VG Bild-Kunst. 

Niobe (aka Yvonne Cornelius)

Singer, Sound Artist

NIOBE, aka Yvonne Cornelius, has released eight albums, among others on Tomlab Records and Sonig Records. Her work is known far beyond Europe, including in Canada, the U.S., and South America.

Stadtrevue in Cologne once wrote: "She is a gifted singer and at the same time an outstanding sound artist. Yet in Germany, Yvonne Cornelius, aka Niobe, is perceived as a niche musician. This, despite the fact that the Cologne-based artist has prominent fans worldwide — including David Byrne, who named her album White Hats his number one of the year in the 2007 New York issue of Artforum."

She has performed at major events such as the renowned SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, and at the legendary avant-garde music venue The Kitchen in New York. She is currently working in her Cologne studio on a new album, which is set to be released in 2026.

The Penelopes

Composers, Musicians

The Penelopes are award-winning French duo Axel Basquiat and Vincent Tremel. They are celebrated for their ability to blend orchestral arrangements with electronic music effortlessly. This seamless integration reflects their versatility and commitment to transcending traditional musical boundaries. Their compositions, whether purely acoustic, entirely electronic, or a hybrid mix, showcase their passion for exploring diverse sonic landscapes.​

Based in London, their original scores have been featured at prestigious festivals such as Cannes — notably in the Un Certain Regard and Semaine de la Critique sections — and Sundance, underscoring their significant contributions to the film industry. Their work on SpaceBoy earned them the Best Original Score for a Belgian Production at the World Soundtrack Awards.​

Their current flagship project involves a series of duets with iconic actresses, highlighting their multidisciplinary artistry. Collaborations include "Meet Me by the Gates" and "The Last Goodbye" with Isabelle Adjani, "Dream Baby Dream" with Asia Argento, and "Affliction" with Virginie Ledoyen. These works exemplify their natural fusion of musical and cinematic elements. Their album Life is Long features these collaborations and was mastered at London's iconic Abbey Road Studios.​

In the fashion realm, The Penelopes have crafted soundscapes for esteemed brands, demonstrating their ability to enhance visual aesthetics with auditory experiences. Their music has also been featured in various campaigns, underscoring their influence in the fashion industry.​

Beyond original compositions, they have remixed tracks for renowned artists such as The Cure, Lana Del Rey, Pet Shop Boys, and Alt-J, infusing their distinctive electronic sensibilities into celebrated classics.​

With a career that defies conventions, The Penelopes continue to redefine the intersection of orchestral and electronic music, offering immersive experiences that resonate across various artistic disciplines.