Maxi Menot studied classical music, composition and music production in Frankfurt, Barcelona and Mannheim. The 35-year-old has been working as a freelance composer and music producer in Berlin since then for a variety of projects: Theatre and film music, performances and album recordings. She is also founder of the publishing house Edition B+ primarily focussed on female artists and music for film. Maxi Menot is this year's winner of the Female Producer Prize.

After studying musicology in Würzburg Matthias Ruckdäschel moved to Munich, where he first worked as a live musician in various projects, later also as an arranger, studio musician and producer for international and national artists. He is responsible for various film music productions in the areas of feature films, series and documentaries. For the last couple of years he also works in video and film production (camera, post-production, video FX).

David Bergés is a musician, composer and music producer based in Barcelona. He studied music at L’Aula de Música and at ESMUC, in Barcelona too. His work has been featured on a variety of tv shows, advertisements and films. Apart form playing guitar, bass and keyboards, to score for films is what he probably likes the most.

Manuel Bleton studied composition, orchestral music and classical piano. He composed original music for movies like: "A quoi pense Madame Manet?", "Rocambolesque" (price of the best original music). His music is often use on TV program: "Harry Potter a History of Magic", with JK Rowling/BBC. He composed also for ad campaigns (CHANEL). https://manuelbleton.com

Daniel Elias Brenner is an award-winning composer based in Berlin.He completed studies in composition, filmmusic & sounddesign and piano at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and at the College of Music Augsburg-Nürnberg. He is passionate about creating pieces in a variety of genres and he loves the technical side of his job.

Lorenzo Carrano is a Los Angeles based composer and orchestrator. He is one of the winners of the 2015 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, and a member of NEXT -a mentoring program by the Recording Academy. Lorenzo holds a BM Berklee College of Music, and a MM from University of Miami - Frost

Raffael Gruber is an Austrian composer and discovered his passion for production music, commercials and trailer music very early. At the age of 16 Raffael published his first productions for TV and radio. Since 2001 he composes music for Intervox. His productions have been used for trailers like Westworld, Homeland, Billions as well as in commercials of Mercedes, Playstation, Kellogg's, and many others.

Walter Grund is a composer based in the south of Germany. A professional guitar player and multi instrumentalist with TV-placements all over the world (e.g. "The Oprah Winfrey Show"). Walter studied in Los Angeles (GIT) and at "Musikhochschule Stuttgart" popular music & jazz. He's also trained in classical guitar which he started playing as a teenager.

Hamilton’s father was a musician. Inheriting his genes, taught himself to play bass and drums. Editing his father’s music on quarter inch tape opened many doors for him within the business. He became a sound editor then a picture editor before composing music full time. His music is used Worldwide and in BAFTA award winning programmes Panorama and Louie Theroux.

Ingo Herrmann has written hundreds of tracks in different genres for film, TV, radio, advertising and new media. You can license these tracks at several production music libraries worldwide. The spectrum extends from electronica, chillout, jazz, funk, world music,hip hop up to suspense music for crime and thriller as well as trailers and advertisings.

Marek Herz is a guitarist & composer based in Frankfurt a.M. He studied jazz & popular music at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz (Germany) and is actively involved in a wide range of audio productions. Furthermore, Marek Herz is a performer in diverse projects (ZAITSA, Cello meets Jazz) as well as the head of the Popular Music department at the school of music Taunus.

Jarkko Hietanen was formerly an electronic music artist making Electronica, Ambient and IDM until became interested in film music. He has scored a web-series called Splinter Cell: Extinction as well as numerous short and some feature films from western, 80's style drama, black comedy to Sci-Fi for which he won award for Best Music. Jarkko's music has been used in Porsche and Rolls Royce videos and in a number of TV shows around the world and his instrument of choice is his unique modular synthes

Scott Horton is songwriter and composer with tracks in feature films and television series the world over. A multi-instrumentalist from Texas, the now European based producer crafts instrumentals as well as vocal songs for sync. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and expert audio engineer, Scott seamlessly transitions between roles and genres, keeping his life happily filled with music.

Alexander is in love with music since childhood. He studied for a long time and worked hard to become a professional musician. He started his music career by writing jingles for radio and TV commercials. He also spent some time creating music for television shows, series and films. Now he works as an independent composer in multiple genres with a strong goal on customer satisfaction.

All started with music by 'The Beatles‘ and the popmusic on the radio. After his brother taught him 2 songs, he started to compose because he couldn‘t play and knew more tracks. After he knew that he could recognize very fast all the chords of his favourite titles he had more and more fun to create his own music. He plays the piano, bass and guitar and a lot on the keyboard. His music was played in „Sing meinen Song“, Voice of Germany, Djungelcamp and daily on any shows in Germany and worldwide.

Born in the Czech Republic, Jan Jirásek graduated at the Janáček Academy in Brno (JAMU, composition, piano). His music was recorded many times on labels like BMG Classics, EMI and others. Jirásek was awarded twice with the prestigious film music prize “The Czech Lion.” He writes music for American TV shows American Pickers, Deed, Filthy Rich Guide, Murder Chose Me, etc.

Walter Kadavy came into contact with music in his childhood with the violin. He quickly discovered his passion for electronic music which lead in the mid and late 90s to the production of dancefloor tracks. By learning the acoustic and electric guitar, he expanded his musical spectrum which he could use in the composition of production music in different styles.

Composer, musician and producer from Barcelona with 15 years of experience in the field of composition and production of music for audiovisual content. Graduated at the international school SAE Institute Barcelona. He has been director of sound and music at his own company Lince Studios, SL. Singer, guitarist and pianist. He owns his own studio in Barcelona.