Peer Raben Music Award

Helmut Zerlett

Helmut Zerlett already had his first chart successes in the 80s and began to compose music for films. During this time at the beginning of his career, he was involved with Joachim Witt at the "Neue Deutsche Welle", studied with Stockhausen student Holger Czukay, produced various artists in London and New York and played live and in the studio with Marius Müller Westernhagen for over 20 years. At the same time he worked intensively on various film projects. He became especially known as musical director, organist and sidekick of the late night shows with Harald Schmidt from 1995 to 2014.

Nele Jeromin

Nele Jeromin was born 1985 in Oberhausen, Germany.
After studying "Scenic Arts" in Hildesheim, she studied „Media Arts“ at the Academy of
Media Arts Cologne. She works as director and editor in cologne.

Marcel Vaid

Marcel Vaid (*1967) works as a musician (guitar) and composer for film. Film music for over 80 feature films worldwide. Head of the electro-acoustic collective Superterz, numerous Tours in Japan and Europe. Collaborations with Nils Petter Molvaer, Norbert Möslang (Voice Crack), Mauro Pawlowski (dEUS), Jojo Mayer (Nerve), Alain Monot (The Young Gods), Marianne Schroeder (John Cage) or Rodrigo Gonzales (Die Ärzte). Worked with Fredi Murer, Marcus Vetter, Milo Rau, Léa Pool, Greg Zglinski or oscar-nominated Timo von Gunten. Wins 2019 his 4^th Swiss Filmprize Best Filmmusic for Chris the Swiss and was a.o. nominated for the European Animation Award. Works as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts and is a member of the European Filmacademy EFA and the Swiss Filmacademy.

Cora Chung

SENTENCE

Cora (Yi-Huan) Chung is a composer and cellist from Taiwan. She started her classical music training at age four. As a cellist, she has performed with a number of professional orchestras in Asia, such as Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO).

Zeina Azouqah

REVOLVO

Zeina Azouqah is a Jordanian-born German composer residing in Berlin. Since moving to Germany 10 years ago she completed her studies in Film and Animation in Nuremberg and stepped into the film music world, scoring and creating sound design for tens of short and medium-length films, culminating in her first full length feature score in 2020.
In addition to her work as a media composer, she is as a member of track15, an international female composers collective whose members met at STC in 2018 and are making their mark in acheiving more visibilty and equity for female* composers in the industry.

Jakob Eisenbach

LUX

Jakob Eisenbach (1994) is a german composer, sounddesigner and audio engineer. His work is primarily focused on Films, Games and Media.
He is finishing his Master of Arts in Composition at the Zurich University of Arts in 2020. He also graduated his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Composition in Summer 2017.
He plays electric guitar, e-bass, piano, viola and drums. In 2019 he founded the compnany "Vection Music GmbH", which aims on the creation and production of high quality music for media.

Pierre Funck

Film music composer. President of the association Forum Filmmusik

Pierre Funck was born and grew up in Luxembourg. After completing a degree in chemistry at ETH Zurich, he studied singing, music theory and composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen (Southern Germany). Later, he completed a Master of Arts degree in composition for film, theatre and media at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he teaches music theory and composition.

Since 2007 he has worked as a film music composer and has scored over 80 films.

Pierre Funck is the president of the association Forum Filmmusik, which aims to raise public attention for film music and to facilitate the exchange of information and experience between film composers and filmmakers. Forum FIlmmusik is one of the organisers of SoundTrack_Zurich and the International Film Music Competition.

Besides working as a film music composer, Pierre Funck reconstructs partially extant Renaissance and Baroque works. He sings in several professional vocal ensembles, some of which specialise in Renaissance-style improvisation.

Pierre Funck lives and works in Zurich.

Sarah Playford

STRENGTH

Sarah Playford is a London based composer and graduate from the Royal College of Music. She has scored multiple short films of which Barbeque was screened on Channel 4 in July 2018. Her more recent short Strength has this month been nominated for "Best Combined use of Music and Sound" as part of Short Sounds Film Festival. Sarah also works as an orchestrator and in the summer of 2019 worked on pieces by Anne Nitikin and Jessica Jones as part of EartH Hackney’s ComposHER event.

Alex Symcox

CURANDERA

Alex Symcox is a British composer for Film living in New York City. His music has been screened at the Venice Film Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs International Short Fest, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and more. He began his music career studying piano, followed by composition at the RCM in London, Undergraduate Degree in composition from the RNCM in Manchester & a masters in Film Music from NYU, New York. Alex's style often combines classical instruments with electronic soundscapes.

James Wedlock

A GLIMPSE

James Wedlock is a young British film composer from London. Born in Cambridge, James studied at London College of Music. While studying Wedlock developed his proficiency for writing music for film leading to a collaboration with many of the students at the nearby London Met film school. He became known in particular for his modal, disney-esque style and light touch with the orchestra.