Speakers

Jacqueline Badran

National Councillor SP

Born in Australia as the daughter of a Lebanese entrepreneur, she moved to Zurich with her family at the age of five and has lived and worked in the city ever since. After graduating from the Gymnasium Hohe Promenade, she studied Biology at the University of Zurich, specializing in neurobiology and behavioral research, and later completed a degree in Political Science, Economics, and Law at the University of St. Gallen. Her early career included work in nature conservation, the insurance sector, and the cantonal administrations of St. Gallen and Zurich, where she contributed to economic development, budget processes, and administrative controlling.

In 2000 she co-founded Zeix AG, a pioneering company for user-friendly digital interfaces that continues to grow successfully. Her entrepreneurial work is guided by principles of sustainability and social responsibility.

Politically active since the 1980s, she chaired the Environmental Commission of the SP Zurich (2001-2008) and served as a member of the Zurich City Council (2002-2011), working in the Audit Commission and the City Development Commission. Badran has been a Member of the Swiss National Council since 2011, serving on the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy Committee (UREK) until 2018 and since then on the Economic Affairs and Taxation Committee (WAK). She is also a board member of the Swiss Tenants' Association, a member of the SME Parliamentary Group, and a trustee of the foundation "Access for All."

Balz Bachmann

Composer, Musician, Producer

Balz Bachmann is an award-winning composer, producer and musician with many years of experience and a wide-ranging, versatile artistic spectrum. His extensive work includes compositions for feature films and documentaries as well as for theater productions, interdisciplinary art projects and television productions.

Over the course of his career, Bachmann has worked with numerous renowned directors and artists, including Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić, Dani Levy, Lisa Brühlmann, Andro Wekua, Ramon Zürcher, Sabine Gisiger and Oscar-winner Xavier Koller. His work has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes.
In addition to his work as a composer, Bachmann is also active as a music producer. He is also interested in promoting young talent, to whom he passes on his knowledge and practical experience as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

As a versatile musician, he is active in various formations and has accompanied the singer Sophie Hunger, among others, on extensive tours through Europe.
Musically, Bachmann moves confidently between electro-acoustic sounds, orchestral arrangements and experimental compositions, which are always characterized by emotional depth and innovative sound ideas.

In 2024, Balz Bachmann was invited as a composer for the renowned “Spot the Composer” program at the Cannes Film Festival. He lives and works in Zurich and is a member of both the European and Swiss Film Academies.

Dr. Kerstin Bäcker

Attorney, Lecturer

Dr. Kerstin Bäcker has been an attorney at Lausen Rechtsanwälte since 2001 and, since 2004, has headed the Cologne office as a partner.

Emerging topics and innovative products are Dr. Bäcker’s field of work. For years, she has focused on adapting the copyright framework to new technological developments in the context of individual and collective licensing and the related business cases, ranging from platform and social media liability for user-generated content (YouTube, cyberlockers, etc.) to artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and NFTs.

Her clients also include traditional education companies, publishers, cultural institutions, and music, audio, and film production companies.

She gained international experience at international law firms in Paris, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Barcelona.

Dr. Bäcker studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and, as a participant in the integrated German-French degree program, at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II, France), focusing on European and international law, where she earned the Licence en Droit. She received her doctorate from Technische Universität Dresden with a dissertation on the position of holders of related (neighbouring) rights in the digital age, taking into account the legal situation in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Bäcker is a certified specialist lawyer (Fachanwältin) in copyright and media law.

In addition to her legal practice, Dr. Bäcker is a lecturer at the Akademie der Deutschen Medien and a guest lecturer at various institutions, including the Music Business Summer School and the Steinbeis Institute. She also serves as a moderator, for example for the initiative "Die Zukunft des Verlegens" ("The Future of Publishing"). Among other publications, she is a contributing author to the Handbuch für Musikwirtschaft and the Handbuch Kulturmanagement and publishes in national and international professional journals.

Nicolas Becker

Sound Designer

Nicolas Becker is an international renowned foley artist , sound designer and composer. He tries to find an original process for each project or film, and tries to develop an original and unique working process. He has collaborated with filmmakers including Amos Gitai, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Chris Nolan, Guillermo Del Toro, Mathieu Kassovitz, Andrea Arnold, Alain Resnais, Gaspard Noé, Chantal Akerman, Raoul Ruiz, Christophe Gans, Danny Boyle, Philippe Parreno, Marco Ferreri, Alex Garland, Alfonso Cuarón, Manoel De Oliveira, Joao Salgado, Gerard Depardon, Philippe Grandrieux, Darius Marder, Andrea Arnold, Jean Stephane Sauvaire, Denis Villeneuve, Pascual Sisto and many others. As a composer,  . During his musical projects, he collaborates regularly with Rob Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Lucy Railton, , Quentin Sirjacq, Eddie Ruscha ,Tony Bucks, Valgeir Sigurosson , Tarek Atoui, Pan Daijing, Lexx  and with the Soundwalk collective with Which he co produced  2 albums with Patti Smith (The revelation of Being and Pedaram), and did tour with her for some years  . His meeting with the conceptual artist Philippe Parreno 15  years ago opened up to the world of sound installation and Sound Art. Since 2009, he has been responsible for sound design and musical direction for all of Philippe Parreno's exhibitions around the world, including a permanent sound installation installed at Moma (N.Y) and another at the Luma foundation in Arles. Always in collaboration with Philippe Parreno he prepares an opera with the Intercontemporain . During his work with Parreno, with the help of Ircam, Stanford university and Bronze AI, he did a lot of research on new practices for the production of sound and musical forms using machine learning, AI, augmented composition, and sonification of datas. He works on the hybridization of sound work with biological entities for the realization of evolving sound systems.These Techniques are also used for the exhibition about Basquiat at la Philarmonie de Paris. Or the Chroma App. 

He also collaborates with other artists like Tomas Saraceno, Pierre Huygues, Carlos Casas, Emma Critchley , Piet Oudolf, Clément Cogitore, . For several years now, his work as a sound supervisor has become increasingly important. First with Christophe Gans (Silent Hill) and Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights, American Honey, Cow) then since 2019 with Darius Marder (Sound of Metal), Mantas Kvedaravičius (Parthenon), Pascual Sisto (John and the hole) .In 2021 Nicolas Becker won an Oscar and a Bafta for his work as sound designer and sound supervisor for the film « Sound of Metal ». since then Nicolas Becker supervised  the sound of “Bardo” directed by Alejandro Inarritu , Le règne Animal directed by Thomas Cailley , Dahomey directed by Mati Diop .In 2024/2025 Nicolas Becker has done the sound design of Bird from Andrea Arnold , the sound design and the music for Harvest by Athina Tsangari , te sound design for Viktor By Olivier Sarbil and Pedro Paramo the first film of Rodrigo Prieto , he also composed  the music score for Planètes directed by Momoko Seto and  Lions of the Sea by Luis Felipe Fernandez- Salvador. As a composer he did also the Music in collaboration with Lexx  of the last choreographic piece of Wayne McGregor , Deepstaria.

Nicolas Becker is actually working on the music and the sound design for the first feature film of the Artist Philippe Parreno.He is also working with Lexx and Cosmo Sheldrake on the music of the new Inarritu s film and working on the sound design of Frank Ocean's first film .

In 2025 Nicolas co-founded a label and collective named Invisible Mountain to help artists create sound and music for their project . 

Yevgeni Birkhoff

Composer, Sound Designer

Yevgeni Birkhoff works as a composer, music producer, and sound designer. He creates music for media and international large scale event productions, composes and produces songs, and engages in the creation of acoustic sound art. Birkhoff's musical diversity is evident in his wide-ranging repertoire, from authentic EDM tracks and Musique Concrète soundscapes to orchestral scores. He has applied his talent and expertise to create tailored music and sound designs for renowned brands and clients such as Mercedes, Porsche, Electronic Arts, the Chinese Ministry of Tourism and Emaar Properties. His sound installations have been exhibited in prestigious institutions worldwide, including the German Rock and Pop Museum in Gronau, the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

In 2010, Birkhoff received the Peer Raben Award at "Soundtrack Cologne" for the best music in a short film. Additionally, many of the large-scale events underscored with his music have been recognized with international event industry awards, including the BrandEx Award in 2019, the German Design Award in 2016, and The Special Event 2015 Gala Award.

Recently, Yevgeni Birkhoff has been engaging with real-time media and Artificial Intelligence. He regularly holds lectures and workshops, sharing his expertise in these cutting-edge fields. In his teachings, he contributes his broad knowledge and innovative perspectives on how these technologies can be leveraged in music, audio post and event productions. His insights are highly valued in both academic institutions and industry forums.

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Cyril Boehler

Composer, Music producer

Cyril Boehler is a composer and music producer known for his distinctive soundtracks in film and visual media. His versatile approach and musical storytelling have brought depth and emotion to pioneering productions.

He has composed for numerous feature films, documentaries, and television including TATORT, WILDER, and the BAFTA-winning LATE SHIFT. His work extends to interactive media and online campaigns, with his KUNSTHAUS ZURICH composition receiving a Creativepool award.

Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Cyril also produces audio branding for popular television formats like SRF DOK and STERNSTUNDEN. As ZWICKER and under his own name, he combines electronic music and songwriting in a series of successful albums and tracks — some with enough streams to fill oceans.

Cyril earned a Film Scoring Diploma from Berklee College of Music and gained hands on experience in studios across Boston, where he lived for five years. Back in Europe, he was fortunate to receive invaluable mentorship from the legendary maestro Ennio Morricone.

Lucy Bright

Music Supervisor

Lucy Bright has music supervised some of the most critically-acclaimed British film and television of recent years: Lynne Ramsey’s "The Swimmer", John Maclean’s "Slow West", Sean Durkin’s "Southcliffe", "The Nest" and "The Iron Claw", Shane Meadows’s "This is England ’90", "The Virtues" and "The Gallows Pole", Charlotte Wells’s "Aftersun" and "Todd Field’s Tár".

Most recently she has music supervised "The History of Sound" starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor and the Marianne Faithfull documentary "Broken English". Her music publishing company Bright Notion Music represents a stellar roster of composers including Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oliver Coates, Rob Simonsen, Anne Nikitin, Tamar-kali, Alex Heffes, Jed Kurzel, Alex Baranowski, Ré Olunuga and Herdís Stefánsdóttir.

Camille Budin

Director, camera assistant, camerawoman

Born in Paris in 1979, Camille Budin has lived and worked as an independent filmmaker in Zürich since 2005. During her Studies in French Literature and Cinema in France and Italy, she discovered the work of documentary filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, Johann Van der Keuken, Robert Kramer... and fell in love with documentary filmmaking. In Zürich, she majored in Image as a camerawoman at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. She then worked as a camera assistant, camerawoman and director (“Be Free”, “Grand et Petit” “Les Nouvelles Eves”) and collaborated with different filmmakers such as Peter Mettler (“The End of Time”).

David Burger

Legal consultant and project manager at SONART

David Burger has studied law with a focus on ip- and contract law at the University of Basel and is working at SONART as a legal consultant and project manager for music in film and media. Over the past twenty years he has been active as a musician and has worked in various roles in the music industry as an enterpreneur and manager.

David was on the board of the Swiss Music Council and has previously founded and co-managed MMFSuisse, the association of Swiss Music Managers.

Gabriela Bussmann

Film producer

In 1990, she was part of the founding team of Critics' Week in Locarno.

Since 1995, she became member of the Festival leadership of Visions du Réel in Nyon. Head of the Industry, she has established an international market to foster international co-productions.

In 2012, she founded GoldenEggProduction in Geneva. She has produced films such as Putin's Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky, which won several awards and was nominated for the European Film Award, Tadmor by Monika Borgmann & Lokman Slim, The Despossessed by Mathieu Roy and Laissez-moi by Maxime Rappaz. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

Amélie Cochet

Director, animator, illustrator and storyboard artist

Amélie Cochet (*1996) grew up bilingual (de-fr) in Bern and discovered her enthusiasm for drawn and moving images at an early age. In 2019, she successfully completed her studies in 2D animation at HSLU Design Film and Art with her graduation film «IHR».

Since then, she has been working as a freelance animator, illustrator and storyboard artist in Bern, where she is involved in various films, carries out a wide range of commissioned projects and realises her own projects, such as her new short film «Across the Board» (produced by marumaru GmbH).

Amélie is also a board member of the GSFA (Groupement Suisse du Film d'Animation) and, since 2021, co-curator of Industry Day at the Fantoche Int. Animation Film Festival. She also teaches the course  "Animated Narration" at the School of Visual Arts in Biel.

Eleonora Danese

Music Supervisor, Songwriter

After almost seven years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director, and with almost fifteen years of professional experience in the music industry, Eleonora Danese has focused solely on music supervision for the past few years. 

She has worked with all the major streaming and TV platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, and Sky, as well as some of Italy’s most important movie production companies (like Groenlandia and Filmauro).

Her working experience led her to be interviewed by international entities like EMMA - European Music Managers Alliance, EMEE - European Music Exporters Exchange, Linecheck Festival, and Fabrique du Cinéma.

She also held lessons about Music Supervision in Italian universities like Università degli Studi di Roma Tre and Luiss Guido Carli. 

While working on her career, she also managed her project as a songwriter: her stage name is Kuni, and her debut EP was released in June 2023 via Factory Flaws. 

Mara Deuschle

Sync Manager

Mara Deuschle has been working in the music industry for over a decade as a concert promoter and artist manager around Switzerland, during her business studies at the University of St. Gallen. Eager to develop her perception of the music industry on an international level, Mara moved to Denmark for her master’s degree in Management of Creative Industries at Copenhagen Business School.

Currently based in Copenhagen while still working with Swiss artists as a manager, Mara started working in music licensing in 2021 and she is now the global sync manager for APL Publishing. Her main focus at this Nordic music publisher is representing their catalogue for all types of visual media on an international level, working together with broadcasters such as ARD, SRF and the BBC, and acquiring placements on programs like VICE on Showtime in the US.

Cécile Drexel

Managing Director at SONART

Cécile Drexel began her career in the membership department of the copyright society SUISA. In 2015, she took over as Managing Director of the Pop/Rock association Musikschaffende Schweiz and was simultaneously responsible for office management at IndieSuisse.

With the merger of three music associations into SONART in 2018, she became Managing Director of the new professional association, a position she still holds today. In 2022, she led SONART into a merger with SMECA, the association of film and media composers. Today, SONART has over 2,800 members and is the largest professional association for freelance musicians in Switzerland. Since July 2024, Cécile Drexel has also been responsible for political affairs and is active on the boards of Suisseculture and Suisseculture Sociale.

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Michael Egli

Member of the Executive Board and Head Legal of SWISSPERFORM

Michael Egli is specifically responsible for the development of the corporate strategy and for the entire planning process, in particular annual project planning, distribution planning, market development activities and budget.

He also negotiates the tariffs applicable for uses of copyrighted content. In addition, he advises musicians, actors and producers in copyright and neighboring right matters.

Before he joined SWISSPERFORM in 2011, he worked as a lawyer in the fields of copyright-, media- and entertainment law.

After graduating from high school and during his law studies, he worked for six years as a radio journalist for the public broadcaster SRG.

Stefan Eichenberger

Film producer

Stefan Eichenberger is an Oscar-nominated Swiss producer and partner at Contrast Film. He has produced acclaimed works such as WONDERLAND (Competition Locarno), MIDNIGHT RUNNER (Competition San Sebastián), and the international spy series DAVOS 1917, sold to over 30 countries.

Contrast Film specializes in socially relevant films and series for broad audiences. Its productions have screened at more than 400 festivals worldwide and won over 100 awards.

Stefan Eichenberger is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the European Film Academy (EFA), and the international producers’ network ACE. In 2022, he was selected as a Cannes Producer on the Move.

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Adina Friis

Composer

Adina Friis (*1988) is a jazz pianist, singer, songwriter and composer for film and theatre. She studied jazz piano, singing and composition in Lucerne, Zurich and Copenhagen.

Her main musical project is the jazz trio "Luumu", with which she transforms her most personal thoughts and ideas into art. Since 2010 she has been playing concerts in Switzerland and abroad. Since 2015 she has been writing the music for various theatres and from 2017-2019 she was responsible for the musical design of the "Berner Reden" at the Konzerttheater Bern.

In 2020 she had the chance to demonstrate her skills as a film composer for the film "Eden for Everyone" directed by Rolf Lyssy."

In 2023 her first full evening composition "Leben in Anbetracht der Endlichkeit" for choir and chamber orchestra was performed in 4 cities throughout Switzerland.

She is currently working on a collaboration with an animated filmmaker who will bring Luumu's music on screen while the band plays the songs live on stage.

For the last four years she's been a speaker at Soundtrack_Zurich.

Marielène Froidevaux

Music Supervisor

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Jan Gassmann

Director

Jan Gassmann (1983) is a Swiss filmmaker working between fiction and documentary. Chrigu (2007), his first feature documentary, premiered at the 57th Berlinale, won awards, and became a box office success. In 2011 he debuted in fiction with the hip-hop drama Off Beat, shown at the 64th Berlinale. The collective political film Heimatland, a disaster movie, competed at Locarno and won several prizes. The award-winning Europe, She Loves (2016), exploring sex and politics through four couples on Europe’s periphery, opened the Berlinale Panorama, was screened worldwide, and was nominated for the European Film Awards.

In 2022 he directed 99 Moons, a passionate amour fou that premiered at Cannes (ACID) and sold to over 25 countries. In 2024 his first French-language film, Les Paradis de Diane, premiered at the Berlinale and opened the Solothurn Film Days, winning the Zurich Film Prize for Best Feature and the Swiss Film Award for Best Music. He lives between Geneva and Zurich.

Benjamin Graf

Machine Learning Engineer

Benjamin Graf is the founder of Accentize and a machine learning engineer focused on audio and digital signal processing.

A lifelong music enthusiast, he began producing as a teenager and later studied at TU Darmstadt with a focus on DSP and machine learning. After some initial experiments with artificial neural network based audio processing, he founded Accentize in 2019 to build tools that solve production problems that were difficult to address with conventional DSP, especially in dialogue restoration.

Today, Accentize plug-ins such as dxRevive Pro and Chameleon are used across film and television post-production worldwide, including major Hollywood titles. In 2024 he received the Television Academy Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy© Award for the development of dxRevive Pro, which reconstructs missing frequency content and rescues compromised recordings. Benjamin now focuses on researching and training custom machine learning models to streamline real world audio workflows.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir

Composer

Hildur Guðnadóttir is an award-winning composer and cellist who, with her virtuoso, versatile, and original approach, has established a unique place in the contemporary music scene. She has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, two Grammys, and a BAFTA. Her groundbreaking score for the HBO series CHERNOBYL earned her an Emmy and the title of "Television Composer of the Year" at the World Soundtrack Awards. She was the first solo female composer to win a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the soundtrack to the film JOKER and subsequently received an Academy Award and a Grammy. Her work includes numerous film and television projects, including SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, MARY MAGDALENE, WOMEN TALKING, JOKER: FOLIE Á DEUX, and TÁR.

In addition to her film music, Hildur Guðnadóttir has released four solo albums and composed music for theater and dance performances. She has collaborated with renowned institutions such as the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the British Film Institute, and the Royal Swedish Opera. Guðnadóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1982 and grew up in a musical family. She began playing the cello at the age of five and studied at the Reykjavík Music Academy and the Berlin University of the Arts. She currently lives in Berlin and is collaborating with director Nia DaCosta on the films HEDDA and 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.

Martin Häne

Music Producer

Martin Häne is a publisher of currently 7 different music production labels for both major distributors as well as independents.

Before becoming a music publisher, Häne worked for 10+ years as composer for both production music as well as bespoke music.

His credits as a composer include "Fack ju Göhte 2", "Melrose Place", "Bring it on" (Universal), various Lion's Gate Films (Warrior, Frankenhood) as well as Commercials and TV Series on networks such as ABC, NBC, CW TV, among others.

As a Publisher, his mission is simple: To create Production Music with character, and helping media creators to tell their story.

You may find out more here: www.martytone.com

Zoë Hart

Agent

Zoë is an agent in the European office of music talent agency First Artists (FAM), representing composers, music editors and music supervisors for film, TV and gaming and is based in London. The roster of composer clients include OSCAR, Emmy and BAFTA-winners and nominees, such as Carter Burwell, Hannah Peel and Antonio Sanchez, through to a diverse mix of emerging talent.

Prior to her time at FAM, Zoë headed up the film/TV composer department at Faber Music, where she worked with composers including Marc Canham, Paul Haslinger and Jonny Greenwood and also helped to develop the Faber Alt. publishing catalogue of artists and composers. Before this, Zoë was a creative at international sync agency A&GSync; representing independent artists, labels and publishers for music licensing. During her 5 years there, she secured placements in global campaigns for brands such as Google, Adidas, Uber, Samsung as well as numerous film, TV and trailer placements.

Zoë is a graduate of music at Manchester University where she specialised in composition, musicology and performance on piano and flute. She has first-hand experience in composition, having written music for TV, ballet and theatre productions.

Anja Kofmel

Director, producer

Anja Kofmel is a Swiss animation and documentary filmmaker and producer. She studied at the HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts (Switzerland) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris. Her first feature length film, the animated documentary CHRIS THE SWISS premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2018, won over 20 awards, such as the Swiss Film Award and was nominated i.a. for Camera d’or (Cannes) and the European Animation Award. Since 2019 Anja Kofmel is a mentor at the HSLU, M.A. Animation. She is the owner of Zurich based production company Asako Film GmbH.

Hansjörg Kohli

Composer and Educator

Professor Hansjörg Kohli is a composer living and working in Munich. He grew up in Switzerland, studied film scoring and jazz piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA and the University of Performing Arts in Munich. He started out as an orchestrator for a variety of film projects. Later on, he became the head of the film music supervision department at the German National Television ZDF in Mainz. For several years now his focus has shifted back to composing for film and media. Among his more recent works are the scores to Ostfriesennacht (Schiwago-Film, Filmfest Emden-Norderney), In Wahrheit - Für immer dein  (Network Movie, ARTE/ZDF), Marie Brand und das tote Au-pair (Warner Bros. ITVP) and Der Spalter (Studio Zentral, Filmfest München).

He is teaching in the film scoring program at the Munich University of Performing Arts and also in the Master of Arts in TV Journalism/Documentary program at the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.

Michael Künstle

Composer

Antoine Le Guern

Composer’s Agent & Music Supervisor

With over 25 years of experience in the music industry, Antoine Le Guern has built a career at the crossroads of music supervision, artist management, and music production. His expertise spans the artistic, technical, and legal aspects of music for visual media, from original composition to executive music production and the licensing of existing tracks.

In 2013, Antoine founded Agence Gaspard, a music agency and publishing company representing ten talented composers. Through Agence Gaspard, he manages artist development, project scouting, contract negotiations, executive music production, and scoring for a wide range of projects. Among the composers he represents are Yannis Dumoutiers, well-known in France as the composer of the hit TV series HPI, as well as Clémence Ducreux, Eloi Ragot, or Antoine Duchêne.

Since 2021, Antoine has also been working as a Music Supervisor at THE, an award-winning sound production and music agency, where he has been developing THE SUPERVISION department. He has overseen music for major TV shows and films, including Nouvelle École (Netflix, seasons 2, 3 & 4), the Squeezie documentary (Amazon), Aspergirl (OCS, seasons 2 & 3), as well as Chez Momo, a feature film by director Mourad Winter produced by Iconoclast for Amazon.

Earlier in his career, Antoine was the founder, composer, and keyboardist of the band MANI, alongside singer Mani Hoffman, known for the international hit Starlight  withThe Supermen Lovers. Their single Bang Bang reached the top 10 in airplay across Europe.

With Raphael Fruchard, Antoine hosts the podcast Sync of You (since 2023), dedicated to exploring the world of music synchronization with leading industry figures.

Antoine combines a strong musical foundation with a deep understanding of the music business, making him a key player at the intersection of creativity and strategy.

Lennart Lenzing

Film producer

Born in 1992 on the North Sea coast, he grew up in Düsseldorf.

In 2014, he began studying international producing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. His production credits include the award-winning films SCHWIMMEN (2017) and TRÜMMERMÄDCHEN (2019). After four years at Riva Film (where, in addition to international co-productions, he also produced PONYHERZ (2022) and NORWEGIAN DREAM (2022)), he has been working as a producer at Zodiac Pictures since 2023.

Olav Lervik

Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Lecturer

Olav Lervik is from French and Norwegian descent. He studied composition in Weimar and Stuttgart and composition for film, theatre and media in Zurich. Olav Lervik produces music and sound for film, games and interactive installations. He teaches composition for film, theatre and media at the University of Arts Zurich.
Olav Lervik is active as an arranger and orchestrator. He has arranged several piano reductions of operas by Peter Eötvös and has transcribed a wide number of pieces from film scores for live concerts. He took part in the restoration of the original scores from the famous movies “Metropolis”(1928) and “Nibelungen”(1926). Lately he reconstructed the original score of the movie "Things to Come" which was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. For the 100 year anniversary of the classic Vampire film “Nosferatu” he was commissioned by Arte/ZDF to compose a new score premiered in Munich in 2022.

Paulina Márquez

Music Supervisor

Music Supervisor with twenty years of experience within the film and music industries, she began her career as a producer at MCO Studios, a multidisciplinary music and audio design studio based in Mexico City.

Later and independently, she dedicated herself exclusively to the Music Supervision of film productions, until moving to London, to study a Master’s degree in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, with a specialization in Music Management at Goldsmiths.

After her studies in London, she moved to Brussels where she co-founded "Schiev", a music festival dedicated to discovering, promoting and mobilizing the independent and experimental music scene in Europe. The festival was part of SHAPE (Sound Heterogeneous Music and Performance in Europe),
a European platform co-founded by Creative Europe.

She currently lives in Barcelona, where she continues her career working in Mexican, Spanish and British productions for platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple. Among her work there are titles such as "Elite", "The burning body", "Hurricane Season", in addition to a long lasting collaboration with director Manolo Caro.

Member of the UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors and Advisor for the Asociación de Supervisión Musical de Habla Hispana; Paulina has also contributed with educational programs, collaborating in various international workshops and panels in forums such as Spot+, Primavera Pro,
BIME, Monkey Week, Future Music Forum, to name a few. She has also been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music, giving a a seminar/workshop on Music Supervision for two consecutive years.

Noah Martin

Lawyer, general secretary at SUISA

Noah Martin is a lawyer who examined copyright protection requirements as part of his doctoral thesis. Since early 2022, he has been working at SUISA Cooperative, where he leads the Secretary General’s office. In his professional role, he also deals with business development issues related to ongoing digitalisation, particularly in the area of generative artificial intelligence.

Rory McPartland

Music Supervisor, Publisher

Rory McPartland is a music supervisor and publisher with over 25 years experience in the industry. Beginning as singer/guitarist for Mike TV, he relocated to New York in 1999 and joined the sync department of EMI Music Publishing. He has also worked with Sony/ATV, Heavy Duty Music and Spirit Music Publishing. Since moving back to Ireland in 2014, Rory continues to focus on sync as the co-founder of Planet Of Sound Music Supervision with recent TV projects including ‘The Young Offenders’, ‘The Gone’, ‘Mix Tape’ and films including Oscar winning short ‘An Irish Goodbye’, ‘Evil Dead Rise’, ‘The Apprentice’, ‘Four Mothers’ and the upcoming feature ‘Saipan’. Rory also co-founded Tremolo Music Publishing which has had success with several syncs including ‘Made In Chelsea’, ‘We Children From Bahnhof Zoo’, Google’s ‘Look To Speak’ ad campaign, ‘The Republic Of Sarah’ and ‘Wild Wild Country’.

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Thomas Mikusz

White Bear PR

In 2011 Thomas Mikusz co-founded White Bear PR, a Public Relations Company, specializing in Composers, Music Supervisors, Songwriters, Soundtrack Promotions and International Film Music Festivals.

He spearheaded several successful Award campaigns, including for Clément Ducol & Camille (Emilia Pérez), Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front), Hildur Gudnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl), Germaine Franco (Encanto) and Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queens Gambit, Lessons in Chemistry) to name just a few. In addition, he worked on the PR campaigns for the Academy Award-nominated Best Score and Best Original Song for Everything Everywhere All At Once and on the successful campaigns for Best Original Songs from Barbie (What Was I Made For) and from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Husavik). He works with clients such as Germaine Franco, Jeremiah Freitas, Ariel Marx, David Fleming, John Lunn, Trygge Toven, Daniel Hart, Dan Romer, Benjamin Wallfisch, Son Lux, Alex Somers, Adam Blackstone, Electronic Arts Music, Disney Music Group, and The Guild of Music Supervisors, to name just a few.

For the past six years he served on the leadership of The Alliance for Women Film Composers, amplifying and supporting the work of women composers.

His career is quite diverse, he has worked as flight attendant, served as General Manager for the two largest German tour operators in the US, and has been Managing Director for a Miami based talent agency.

His spare time is dedicated to hiking, nature and travel.

Veronica L. Montaño

Veronica L. Montaño was born on 3 April 1990 in Nebikon. She is a founding member of Eisprung Animation Studio GmbH and has been working as an art director and director. She graduated in 2017 with a master's degree from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Design & Art with the graduation films Ivan's Need and Eisnasen. 

In addition to Eisprung, Veronica is co-curator of Fantoche Industry Day and SAIA – Swiss Animation Industry Award.

Christian Petzold

Director and screenwriter

Christian Petzold is a German filmmaker and screenwriter, regarded as a leading voice of the Berlin School. After studying at the dffb in Berlin, he developed a distinctive style exploring themes of memory, identity, and the boundaries between life and death.

Many of his works were shaped in dialogue with filmmaker and theorist Harun Farocki. Petzold gained international recognition with The State I Am In (2000), Ghosts (2005), and Yella (2007), often referred to as his "Ghosts Trilogy", among others. 

He has collaborated frequently with actors Nina Hoss, Paula Beer, and Franz Rogowski. His films Barbara (2012, Silver Bear for Best Director), Phoenix (2014), Transit (2018), Undine (2020, FIPRESCI Award), and Afire (2023, Berlinale Jury Prize) established him among Europe’s most acclaimed directors.

Katharina Pfennich

Sound Artist and Sound Designer

Victor Praud

Re-Recording Mixer

Victor Praud originally from Nantes, France, graduated from the FEMIS film school in 2014. Since then he’s been working as a re-recording mixer in Paris for such directors as Coralie Fargeat, Julie Delpy, Léa Mysius, Arnault Desplechin, Luc Besson. He build his own studio in Paris, Studio Zone d’Ombre, which he as run for the last 8 years with 3 associates. In 2025 he has been nominated for best sound at BAFTAs and AMPS awards for the movie “The Substance” directed by Coralie Fargeat. In his spare time he also performs as an electronic music artist under different names like Society of Silence or Second.

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Jérôme Rebotier

Composer and Musician

Eclectic musician and multi-instrumentalist switching from classical music to more experimental writing and songwriting, Jérôme Rebotier is best known for his work in cinema and documentaries, having composed the scores for about 60 films for both cinema and television. Deeply attentive to the connection between music and images —believing that music truly makes sense when paired with visuals— he has always sought to engage in a variety of new collaborations.

After studying classical music as a child in Mulhouse, he learned a lot from major pop-rock artists like David Bowie and The Beatles, while simultaneously exploring more experimental artists such as Pierre Schaeffer.

For over 20 years, he has composed scores for many directors, including Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière, Emmanuel Mouret, Tonie Marshall, Laurent Larivière, and Rafael Lewandowski. His varied approach to music has led him to work on classical compositions as well as pop music.

Jérôme Rebotier has also written numerous songs for artists such as Horace Andy (Massive Attack), Olivia Ruiz, and has collaborated with DJ Agoria, Hugh Coltman, Rover, and Nicolas Becker.

In 2020, he founded his own record label and publishing company, Robotic Productions, through which he produces independent artists such as Party Side B, Edgar Novak, and KNDNS.

Currently, he is working on several projects, including personal works like "Alma" (compositions inspired by J.S. Bach), "Vox Requiem" (for voices and orchestra), and "Apach" (a collective improvisation with friends Olivier Lasson & Valentin Portron).

Jérôme Rebotier is also a writer. His first novel, Dans la Cour, released in March 2023, tells the story of a teenager escaping a traumatic childhood through music and friendships and is based on his own experiences. His next book will explore the life of an amnesiac man living multiple, simultaneous lives.

Sandrine Rudaz

Composer

Sandrine Rudaz is a Swiss-French composer who’s known for her orchestral scores recorded with world-class musicians in prestigious venues, including the iconic Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. She has been honored with two Hollywood Music in Media Awards and was nominated for a Jerry Goldsmith Award. Her music, distinguished by its lush orchestration and emotional depth, seamlessly blends her European classical piano heritage with the expansive influences of Hollywood, resulting in a sound both modern and timeless.

With over forty projects to her credit, Sandrine has scored for feature films, TV series such as On the High Seas (RTS/ARTE) and documentaries like PARADiCE (Canal 9), the latter earning her an additional Hollywood Music in Media Award nomination. She is currently composing the score for Yogis of Ukraine, a documentary directed by Bob Degus, producer of Austin Powers and the Oscar-nominated Pleasantville, for which she received a grant from New Music USA’s Reel Change Fund. Sandrine has contributed to major studio projects including the blockbuster video game Diablo IV (Blizzard), Clint Eastwood’s latest film Juror #2 (Warner Bros.), Disney’s Mickey and the Very Many Christmases, and TV shows such as FUBAR (Netflix) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reacher (Amazon), and Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain (CNN).

Sandrine's academic credentials include a Master of Music in Film Composition from the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Conservatory of Lausanne, Switzerland. She furthered her studies in orchestration at Stanford University and was selected for the SESAC Workshop with renowned composer John Swihart (How I Met Your Mother). Additionally, she participated in the LA Film Conducting Intensive under the mentorship of orchestrators William Ross (Star Wars, Titanic) and Conrad Pope (The Hobbit, Jurassic Park).

Beyond her individual achievements, Sandrine is a dedicated ambassador for the Primetime Network, board member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and Women In Film. She is a voting member of the World Soundtrack Academy and of the Recording Academy.

Beda Senn

Music Consultant, Music Curator & Producer

Freelance music consultant and founder of the new production music label Motif Works. From 2006 to January 2025, Beda Senn worked as a music consultant at Swiss Television (SRF), where he was involved in up to 600 documentary film projects

Since 2018 conception & production for new library/production music under Tonangeber GmbH, he is expert in the implementation of new sounds for current and future topics:
What does today's modern urban environment sound like? (Sounds Of Urbanity). What does music have to sound regarding sustainability, the new food movements, healthy and sustainable nutrition and lifestyles? (Organic Food Sounds). How do you create a sound image that depicts the regions of the world in a new and timeless way? Without all the clichés and stereotypes, but with the by integrating the traditional sounds of the regions concerned. What are new alpine sounds? What is the new sound for stories in today's alpine region (including Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and the north of Italy and France). Creating sounds that make the colours ring. And much more.

Another important motto: Modern Modular Motif-based Production Music. The goal are minimal and modular structured mood tracks, which have unique and modern sounds as core element and thus on the one hand perfectly underscore fitting and not overloaded but on the other hand have strong motif expressiveness. For each track there are several variations, which may differ in instrumentation of the motif, tempo, time signature etc., but which play around the central element (the leitmotif) in some form. And all this under the aspect of making it as close, touching, high quality and timeless as possible for all kinds of audio-visual productions and suitable for stories in the here and now.

Although music is his life, he never learned to play an instrument well. He spent a few years as a drummer, but never really gained a foothold as a musician. Despite, or perhaps because of it, he has immersed himself (associatively), in what kind of images does music create, which images need which music. He finds the exploration of music exciting. And he has immersed himself in it.

He also sees himself as a diver for musical pearls in the playlists of Tonangeber. He curates and mixes them together.

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Mirjam Skal

Composer and orchestrator

Mirjam Skal (*1996) is a freelance film music composer based in Zurich. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition for Film from the Zurich University of the Art. Known for combining synthetic textures with orchestral sounds, she composes music for documentary, feature, and television films. She is especially fascinated by unusual instruments such as the theremin and hurdy-gurdy, as well as the creation of her own instrumental sound palettes.

In 2018, Mirjam received the TAURUS Award for Best Film Score, followed in 2021 by a mentorship with Mychael Danna and her contribution to the American film adaptation of the bestselling novel “Where the Crawdads Sing”. In the same year, Mirjam has been selected as a participant in Berlinale Talents, which has been a mind opening experience for her Since then, she has been active in both national and international film and TV productions, composing music for two Zurich Tatort episodes and for Jasmin Gordon’s debut feature LES COURAGEUX.

In November 2024, she was awarded the Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Best Film Score at the Televisionale Baden-Baden for her soundtrack to the Tatort episode “Von Affen und Menschen”. In May 2025, she received the German Documentary Film Music Award for her score for Max Carlo Kohal’s film VRACHT.

Bruno Spoerri

Saxophonist, Composer

Bruno Spoerri (b. 1935 in Zürich) is a Swiss saxophonist, composer, and pioneer of electronic and computer music. A central figure in Swiss jazz for over 60 years, he began as an award-winning amateur saxophonist in groups like the Metronome Quintet and the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg, before becoming a professional composer in the 1960s.

Spoerri has written music for over 500 advertising films, feature films, documentaries, and radio plays, earning international recognition, including a Clio and a Cannes prize. His interest in electronic sound led him to become one of Europe’s earliest innovators in combining live jazz with analog synthesizers, electrified saxophones, and later interactive computer systems. His groundbreaking album Voice of Taurus (1978) is now considered a cult classic of electronic jazz.

He co-founded and directed the Swiss Center for Computer Music and has collaborated with leading jazz artists like Albert Mangelsdorff, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, and George Gruntz. Spoerri also served as artistic director of the Zurich Jazz Festival in the 1970s.

As an author and historian, he edited two major reference works: Jazz in der Schweiz (2005) and Musik aus dem Nichts (2010), the latter documenting the history of electroacoustic music in Switzerland.

Spoerri has received numerous honors, including the Swiss Jazz Award (2017) and the Golden Medal of Honor of the Canton of Zurich. He continues to perform in jazz and electronic ensembles and remains a key figure in the international experimental music scene.

Alexander Stratigenas

Swiss producer and supervising sound editor

Alexander Stratigenas began his journey on various classical stages at a young age. Over the years, he expanded his musical repertoire, working in the realms of rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and electronic music. After completing his studies in sound engineering, he gained valuable experience at Soundville Media Studios, collaborating with artists across diverse genres – from emerging talents to renowned musicians both nationally and internationally.

Together with Timothy Ross, he founded ORISONO GmbH, a film and music production company. ORISONO Film focuses on the production of feature films, series, and documentaries with an international outlook. ORISONO Music serves as a partner for selected composers and artists, acting as a bridge between artists and production companies in the music industry.

Although Alexander Stratigenas is no longer an active musician, he leverages his extensive knowledge and network to bring exciting projects to life with dedicated and creative individuals. As a lecturer in performance and copyright law, he is committed to promoting fair practices in the music and film industries.

Andreas Suttner

Cellist, music manager, music consultant for TV, founder of music label Klangidee

Andreas Suttner has studied Violoncello and music tuition and has been awarded as a cellist at several well-known contests.
After completing his MA in Arts Management at City University of London he has turned his attention to music management.

From 2004 he is also working as a music consultant for the film department of Bavarian Television.

In 2007 Andreas Suttner founded the production music label KLANGIDEE and since then is focusing on his work as a composer and producer for filmmusic in TV, radio and web.

Laura Thomann

Music supervisor

After completing her master's degree in applied linguistics, Laura found her way into the Swiss cultural sector and worked for several years at SONART, the Swiss professional association for musicians. She also gained valuable experience in other professional fields, including subtitling film and news productions for Swiss television and administrative work in public cultural funding.

Since 2025, she has been working as a music supervisor at the Swiss national radio and television corporation SRF, where she curates and provides music for various radio, television and online formats and advises journalists on music selection.

Additionally, Laura is involved in various cultural associations with a musical and organisational capacity, including fundraising, communication and booking.

James Varghese

After completing his MA in Jazz studies at the Zurich school of fine arts (ZHdK) James toured in various bands and projects through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Israel, China, India and Japan. He also produced different artists of various genres anywhere between pop, jazz, experimental and electronic.

In 2018 he founded Quiet Love Records with an adjacent publishing edition and has released artists with international acclaim such as Rosa Anschütz, Robot Koch and Egopusher among others.

Since 2023 he is part of the music supervision team at the Swiss national radio and television corporation SRF, consulting and curating all things music for various formats on radio, TV and online.

Martin Villiger

Composer, focused on film music

Martin Villiger has composed the music for over 130 films and series. That’s about 450 series episodes and counting.

“I love to bring different people and art forms together and to dare new things.“, Martin says. In addition to songs he writes and produces with pop greats, he has always tried new areas of music. He has, for example, composed the music for a circus show, for installations, numerous commercials and corporate sound for companies. Martin Villiger is also interested in 3D audio like Dolby Atmos, spatial audio for VR (virtual reality) and games. The new feature film “Early Birds” where he co-composed music with the main composer Adrian Frutiger is premiering at this years Zurich Film Festival.

Martin Villiger is helping companies use music to connect to their audience. With Music for their brand and special live Events.

Villiger was born in Glasgow and grew up in Jerusalem, among other places. He feels at home all over the world and speaks six languages. His new concert series “Culture Clash” fits in with this. He is married to Catherine, and together they have four children.

Mick Vuillemier

Producer and cinematographer

Mick Vuillemier is a cinematographer and producer based in central Switzerland. From a young age on he developed a deep fascination for films and their technical aspects. He later gained hands-on experience in filmmaking on the sets of various short and feature films. As a cinematographer, he has worked on several short films and honed his ability to visually support a narrative. In his approach, he consistently strives to unite art and technology in a complementary symbiosis.

As part of the Lucerne-based production company ORISONO, Mick also has a strong grasp of the production side of filmmaking and has contributed to the production of several feature films, as well as large-scale content pieces for international brands and corporations. With the forward-thinking spirit of the ORISONO team, he strives to venture beyond conventional film productions, collaborating with emerging talents whose creativity and skills are shaping the next generation of cinema.

Anita Wasser

Film producer

Anita Wasser has been active in the Swiss film industry since 1992. She spent 10 years as Managing Director and Programmer of the Arthouse cinemas Riffraff and Bourbaki, four years as Head of MEDIA Desk Switzerland, and was a member of the film commissions of the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) and the Zurich Film Foundation.

From 2006 to 2016, she worked as a producer at the renowned production company C-Films. Between 2012 and 2017, she held a part-time position as Head and Lecturer of Film Production in the Bachelor and Master of Arts programs at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2016, she has been co-owner of Turnus Film in Zurich, producing national and international feature films, TV films, and TV series in the arthouse and high-end mainstream sectors, including WOLKENBRUCH by Michael Steiner, JAKOBS ROSS by Katalin Gödrös, as well as two seasons of the series DIE BESCHATTER and TATORT.

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Andreas Wegelin

CEO of SUISA

Andreas Wegelin studied musicology, art history and law at the University of Bern. He has held various positions at SUISA, the Cooperative Society of Authors and Publishers of Music, since 1987 - first as Assistant to the Director, then as Head of the New Media Department and from 1998 as a member of the Executive Board. He has been CEO of SUISA since 2010. He has also held various positions in foundations, the Swiss Music Council and international umbrella organisations as well as mandates in the field of development aid for collecting societies in Indonesia and Colombia.

Since 2017, he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mint Digital Services, the joint venture between SUISA and the US company SESAC for licences in online music distribution.

Andreas Weidinger

Film Composer

Andreas Weidinger is an award-winning German film composer based in Munich, Bavaria.

He is a two times nominee of the German Music Authors´ Prize as well as a member of the German Television Academy and the Academy of German Music Authors. 

His recent credits include the symphonic score for the fantasy movie "Die Wolf-Gäng" for Sony International and the 70´s driven score for the Franz-Beckenbauer Biopic “The Kaiser” for Sky Germany (both directed by Grimme Award nominee Tim Trageser). He also scored the highly acclaimed ARD/DEGETO film “Charlotte Link - In the valley of the fox“ as well as the mini series “Lauchhammer” (both directed by German TV-Award nominee Till Frantzen) using an extensive set of experimental electronic sounds mixed with medieval instruments.

Andreas has written over 120 scores for prime time movies, TV-Series and feature films across various genres.  Among them you will find some of the most-watched German productions as well as US-productions such as Ironclad-Battle for blood (directed by Jonathan English) or Banshee Chapter.

As a member of the GEMA supervisory board, he advocates for fair remuneration for creators globally.