European Talent Competition

Jamie Alpherts

Nominee European Talent Competition

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.

Luis Cantú

Nominee European Talent Competition

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?").

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.