Rossano Cariello

Based in Edinburgh, Rossano Cariello is a contemporary composer for film and media. Over the last few years, he has taken on multiple small projects, including an award-winning short film, ‘Games Night’ and an international award winning feature film, 'Introducing Jodea' With these works, he has built a diverse portfolio and expanded his creative output for film through both online streaming and regular screened platforms. He composes with a fusion of classical and modern sensibilities on account of his varied study. Reading music at Edinburgh, Rossano holds both a Masters degree in Composition for Screen, and a Bachelor’s degree in Music with Honours. At University he was afforded the opportunity for further study, briefly interning under film composers Marco Biscarini and Daniele Furlati at the Conservatorio di Musica Francesco-Venezze in Rovigo, Italy. This experience allows him to continue to delve into different styles of music with both early and contemporary practices in mind.

Martina Cirillo

Martina Cirillo is an Italian singer and musician born in the 1992. Actually she is a student at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan - Italy. Born as a singer, she started musical studies at the age of 10 with a private teacher. She studied at the CPM School of Milan, then Piano Jazz and Composition at the Cdpm School of Bergamo, where she discovered a great passion for the world of Film Music Composition. After the high-school graduation, she started teaching music at the Accademia Musicale di Bergamo where she still actually works. From 2020 Martina follows a workshop named Fury Workshop, realized by an international award-winning film music composer called Giorgio Giampà. Thanks to his lessons she learned how to speak through the music on the images, how to work in a team, how to understand what the director wants to communicate in every single scene. As singer and composer she made different concerts for important realities like Blue Note of Milan, Jazz festivals and kermesse. As singer she worked with the Orchestra Italiana del Cinema (OIC).

Lorenzo Gioelli

Lorenzo Gioelli was born in Pordenone (Italy) in 1997. At the age of eight he began studying violin and during the years he had the opportunity to explore with his instrument the most different musical genres: from classical music to rock, from jazz to folk music. Specially, during the study period at the conservatory of music of Venice and Castelfranco Veneto (Bachelor degree in 2020) he came up to electronic music and music technologies: this interest led him to attend the Master in Applied Music and Film Scoring at the Conservatorio F. Venezze of Rovigo.

Johann Grillenbeck

Johann Grillenbeck is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer currently based in Würzburg, Germany. He co-founded the alternative crossover rock band RC-Plane in 2011 playing guitar and then teached himself how to play the drums, bass and production in the following years. In 2020 he introduced his electronica-tech-house alias Monĕsk to the world and continued to release music regularly. After completing his B.A. in Media Management in late 2021, he decided to pursue music full time.

Victor Habes

Michael Kaspar

I was born on 5th May 2002 in Biberach an der Riß (Germany). In the age of 9, I started to take trumpet lessons. From 2012 I went to the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach, where in 2020 I completed my A-levels with, amongst others, Music as main subject. During that time, I taught myself to play the piano, and started to compose orchestral music. After my graduation, I spent 10 months in Vilnius as Volunteer of the European Solidarity Corps giving Spanish-, German-, and percussion classes for adolescents. Since October 2021 I have been studying Audio Design at SRH Berlin School of Popular Arts.

Thomas Peyrounette

Since September 2020 I moved to Annecy to enter the Conservatory in the Musical Composition for Screen class with Olivier Militon where I’m actually taking various courses : writing, music improvisation on videos, orchestration, sound design and more. The main interest of this training is that I’m working on various movie projects on which I compose music for different french schools of animation production.

Manuel Seum

I was Born in Bologna, Italy. There i made a course of Composition at the Conservatory of Bologna Then in 2018 in moved to Munich to start to study Filmscoring at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater with the Professor Gerd Baumann. Hier I specialized my experience as Composer and as Music Producer. Hier i had the oppurtunity to collaborate at many short Films made by Hff München and BR

David Videli

My name is David. I'm 19. I bathed in music from an early age because my parents are musicians. I thus started the transverse flute at the age of 8 and learned music theory. Then I very quickly started to compose by playing with the piano of the house. During my education, many musical influences have enriched my compositions such as classical music, pop, electro, jazz, traditional music, rap... Just after my baccalaureate, I tried to enter the Annecy Music Conservatory for a course in composition for the image and I was taken. So here I am today at the end of my first year: a year that taught me so many musical, technical and human things.

Jenny Winter

Growing up in a small village near Düsseldorf, sound in all forms has always been Jenny‘s passion. She has been singing since she was a kid and when she was 14, she decided she wanted to explore the technical and artistic side of music and make it her profession. So she prepared for studying Sound and Motion Picture (GER „Ton und Bild“) with a focus on classical singing at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. Jenny has been learning there since 2017 and gained new skills in sound but also in video production. Besides planning classical concert films and directing music videos she became a sound artist and mixing engineer for movies. Because of this journey she now lives in two worlds; sound and motion picture. Today Jenny is towards the end of her studies and currently working as a free sound and video artist on several projects. In all of her work it is very important to her to approach media from different emotional perspectives. Looking forward to entering the industry full time she is really excited for all the projects coming next

Niels N. Winter

Born in Berlin and raised in Wuppertal, Niels has been a musician from the beginning. He learned to play the piano at age 5, followed by drums und a few years later the trumpet. During his time at school he discovered composing, first for piano and later also for orchestra. Besides classical orchestration he has a passion for synthesizers and tends to experiment with different timbres. In 2015 he won a first prize at „Jugend Komponiert“ and started working for the „Wuppertaler Kinder- und Jugendtheater“, which he continues to do until today. Since 2016 he has been studying Music and Media at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf where he had the chance to explore different fields of the film world; composition, sound design as well as directing and camera work. He gained experiences which he also profits from in his work as a composer. Today he pursues different projects in and outside his college surrounding and looks forward to graduating

Marcel Barsotti

Award winner Marcel Barsotti is a Swiss film- & advertising composer. From 1982 - 1988 he studied composition, piano, conducting and clarinet at the Conservatory of Munich (Germany) and in the studios of film composer Harold Faltermeyer. During these years he worked with famous directors and producers like Sönke Wortmann, Günter Rohrbach, Caroline Link, Luc Besson-Producon, Carl Schenkel, Anno Saul, Josée Dayan, Eberhard Junkersdorf, Paul Hills and Hark Bohm. Since 1995 Barsotti has composed the scores for more than 100 national and international movies & commercials such as Pope Joan (Die Päpstin), The Miracle of Bern (Das Wunder von Bern), Jesus Loves Me (Jesus liebt mich), Germany. A Summer’s Fairytale (Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen), The Sea Wolf (Der Seewolf) or the The Bible Code (Der Bibelcode). In 2010 Barsotti received the German Record Critics` Award and the Director’s Choice Gold Medal for Excellence for Pope Joan. He was also nominated in 2010 by the Verband der deutschen Filmkritik and by The Score of the Year 2009 for Pope Joan. Barsotti got three nominations by the German Television Award and he won the Award for best Commercial 2005. He is also contributing to the worldwide ethnic Sample Library Ethno World. In 2017 he founded the producon music company Tunesformovies and he was nominated for German Music Author Award.

Gordon Hamilton

As a composer, several recent works by Gordon Hamilton subvert expectations of the orchestra, including 'Thum Prints' (for beatboxer Tom Thum and orchestra, 2015) and '482 Variations on a Very Short Theme' (2016). His 'Action Hero' (2016) pairs the recorded voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger with orchestra. In December 2018 he traveled to Antarctica to compose ‘Far South’ which was premiered in 2020 by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Hanna Heimann

Hanna Viktoria Heimann was born in Munich in 1996. After finishing a History BA, she now studies Screenwriting at the University of Television and Film in Munich. “UnReason” is her first fiction short film as a director.

Sanna Salmenkallio

For me music is a way to explore the world. I compose with curiosity.
 
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. As a composer she has worked with symphony orchestras, smaller ensembles, and electronic music. 

Salmenkallio has created her own style by mixing classical background to different contemporary and experimental elements. Her strength, in addition to composing, is a deep understanding of dramaturgy. She has won four Jussi Awards for the best film score in Finland. She has also composed lots of music for theatre and dance performances. She loves experimental film and theatre as well and works regularly with community art projects.

She has both classical music education from Sibelius Academy and an education as Sound Designer from Theatre Academy, which creates an inspiring dialogue between sound and music. She has also a passion for Arabic music, which she studied in Cairo. As a violinist she is specialized on improvisation.

Working languages : Finnish, English, Swedish. Also, able to work with Danish and French material.

Josef Steinbüchel

Founder and owner of Torus GmbH Sound Postproduction in Cologne. Works as Sound Supervisor and Sound Designer for Feature Film, Television and Commercials.