All Competitions at SoundTrack_Cologne

European Talent Competition

Create your own world of music and sounds!

We are looking for the best short film soundtrack by young composers and sound designers in the category of WDR FILMSCORE AWARD and SOUND DESIGN. The winner of the WDR FILMSCORE AWARD will have the opportunity to record his / her original composition with the WDR Funkhausorchester Cologne. The best SOUNDDESIGN will win a 5.1 cinematic mixing session in a prestigious sound mixing studio in Germany.

Submission deadline was May 08, 2023, 09:00am CET.

Peer Raben Music Award

SoundTrack_Cologne is again awarding a prize for the best music in a short film: the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD.

The prize is awarded by SoundTrack_Cologne in memory of the great German film composer Peer Raben. The award money is donated by Peer Raben’s estate.

For the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD, which is annually awarded since 2009, SoundTrack_Cologne is looking for the best music in a short film. Awarded will be film scores where the relationship between the narration and the music and sound is innovative and dramaturgically striking.

The prize is worth 1,500 Euros.

Submission deadline was April 11, 2023.

Still by Danny Cohen, Anonymous Club

SEE THE SOUND Prize for the Best Music Documentary

SEE THE SOUND, the film festival of SoundTrack_Cologne invites all film makers, producers and distributors to submit films with a focus on music.

Submission deadline was April 11, 2023, 12:00 CET.

Competition Winners

Award Winners 2022

Walter Murch – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Lorenzo Gioelli (Italy) – WDR Filmscore Award
David Kamp (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award
Anonymous Club – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2021

Rachel Portman – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Ludwig Peter Müller (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Maximilian Sattler (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Paulo Gallo – Peer Raben Music Award
Shut up Sona – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2020

Don Davis – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Fabian Zeidler (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Sinan Varis (France) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Alex Symcox (USA) – Peer Raben Music Award
Everybody's Everything – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2019

Klaus Doldinger – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Leon Maximilian Brückner (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Paul Clímaco Müller Reyes (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Mateo Ojeda (Colombia) – Peer Raben Music Award
BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2018

Craig Armstrong – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Ben Winkler (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Celia Ruiz Artacho (Spain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Mateja Starič (Slovenia) – Peer Raben Music Award
Silvana – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2017

Bruce Broughton – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Thomas Chabalier (France) – WDR Filmscore Award
Martin B. Janssen (France) – Peer Raben Music Award
Liberation Day – See The Sound Music Documentary Award
Berlin live - Award for the Best German Live Music TV-Show

Award Winners 2016

Cliff Martinez – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Daniel Herget (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Jérémy Bocquet (France) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Filip Sijanec (Slovenia) – Peer Raben Music Award
I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott – See The Sound Music Documentary Award
zdf@bauhaus - Award for the Best German Live Music TV-Show

Award Winners 2015

Enjott Schneider – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Damian Scholl (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award
Armin Badde (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Stanislav Makovsky (Russia) – Peer Raben Music Award
The Case of the Three Sided Dream (USA) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2014

Eberhard Schoener – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Marianna Liik (Estonia) – WDR Filmscore Award
Friso Hoekstra (The Netherlands) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Denise Barth (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award
Europe in 8 Bits (Spain) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2013

Manfred Eicher – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Filip Šijanec (Slovenia) – WDR Filmscore Award
Artur Khayrullin (Russia) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Rosanna Zünd (Switzerland) – Peer Raben Music Award
Kidd Life (Denmark) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award
Laurence Owen (Great Britain) – Früh Kölsch Audience Award for the Best Music in a Short Film

Award Winners 2012

Michael Nyman – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
John Chua (Singapore) – WDR Filmscore Award
Sebastian Kübler (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Enrica Sciandrone (Italy/Great Britain) – Peer Raben Music Award

Award Winners 2011

Horst Peter Koll – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Olivier Militon (France) – WDR Filmscore Award
Nathan Blais (France) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Pablo Pico (France) – Peer Raben Music Award

Award Winners 2010

Christian Bruhn – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Martin Batchelar (Great Britain) – WDR Filmscore Award
Jens Heuler & Dominik Campus (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best cooperation between composer and sound designer
Jewgeni Birkhoff (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award
German TV Music Award
- Fabian Römer (Composer): "Tatort: Weil sie böse sind" - Best Music a TV Movie
- Sven Rossenbach & Florian van Volxem: "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens" Best Music for a TV Series
- Michael Kadelbach: Henners Traum – Das größte Tourismusprojekt Europas Best Music for a Documentary

Award Winners 2009

Irmin Schmidt – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Felix Rösch (Germany) – New Sound in European Film
Phillip Specht (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Titas Petrikis (Lithuania) – Peer Raben Music Award
Biber Gullatz & Andreas Schäfer (Komponist) "Der verlorene Vater" – German TV Music Award

Award Winners 2008

Peter Thomas – SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award
Joram Letwory (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film
Henning Knoepfel (Great Britain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Antoni Łazarkiewicz "Die zweite Frau" – German TV Music Award

Award Winners 2007

Alexander Reumers (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film
Ravian de Vries & Susanne Grünewald (The Netherlands) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design

Award Winners 2006

Paul van Vulpen (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film
Matthias Heuser, Lief Thomas & Christiane Buchmann – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design

Award Winners 2005

Maria Ushenina (Russia) – New Sound in European Film
Christopher Wilson (Great Britain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design
Dimitri Dodoras (Deutschland) - Skoda SoundTrack Award for students

Award Winners 2004

Juhan Vihterpal (Estonia) - New Sound in European Film
Tom Werner, Michael Schlappa & Ralf Herrmann (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design