11:30 - 11:45 AUDITORIUM talk NCB, NETFLIX and flow of money. State of the business. Talk by Jesper Hansen (Denmark)
11:45 - 12:45 AUDITORIUM Panel Composer’s Partners in Business. When do you need an agent? How can a music supervisor help you? What about a manager, publisher and PR company? Moderated by Katariina Sorsa, Music Finland |
Katariina works as Export Manager for pop/rock at Music Finland specializing in developing the exports of songwriters, music publishers, film and media composers and music uses in sync. She is in charge of Music Finland’s songwriting camps Song Castle, A-Pop Castle and Song Hotel, and works with music industry events such as Music & Media Finland and Nordic Music Trade Mission to Los Angeles.
Music Finland promotes the awareness and success of Finnish music at home and abroad. It creates and manages a wide variety of services for the Finnish music industry; marketing programs, events, networking opportunities, training, consultancy, support, research, information and funding programs. On her time off Katariina sings in a heavy metal band. |
Annette Gentz, agent, Annette Gentz Music and Film Arts, Germany
Annette Gentz is one of Germany’s premiere agents for film music. Her company Annette Gentz Music & Film Arts has been initiating and supervising original score productions for over 9 years, collaborating with film producers and directors, music supervisors, publishers and record labels worldwide. Previous film projects she was involved in include soundtracks by among others Florencia Di Concilio, Michael Nyman, Hauschka, Max Richter, Selma Mutal, Gert Wilden, Johannes Repka and Boris Bojadzhiev. One of her previous projects is Karsten Fundal's score for the award winning Danish-Syrian feature documentary “Last Men in Aleppo”, as well as the soundtrack for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's film "Human Flow". She currently collaborates with Komplizen Film on the music for Vanessa Jopp's feature film "Gut gegen Nordwind", composed and produced by Oscar-nominee Volker Bertelmann. As a music supervisor Annette Gentz focusses on the creation of original score music, finding the right composer for the right project. The film composers she represents are award winning musicians and unique voices in German and international cinema. All of the artists she works with are trained in the classical field yet feel comfortable on the cutting edge, moving between genres. Lena Obara - Music supervisor
For over decade Lena Obara has been consistently building and nurturing relationships with composers, agents, record labels, publishers, alongside film and advertising directors and producers almost all over the world. Her expertise as a music supervisor ranges from bringing together seamlessly the project to the music and vice-versa by researching and identifying music and composers to licensing and negotiation.Her experience and creativity carefully inform each of her music supervision choices and decisions. Her in-depth music industry experience included positions such as synch manager, music publisher, music & media lecturer, music teacher and sound engineer. Lena Obara’s portofolio includes music supervision for several films and advertising. On my recent project I had the pleasure of recording with the fantastic pianist Alice Sara Ott and a big orchestra again. It was amazing to see this precious person turning to a real great lioness of keys and playing along with all the stings and horns and watching the composer hearing his wonderful piano concert for the first time like this. I cannot wait to see the movie in a crowded theater but also to have the soundtrack in my hands. Lena Obara |
Thomas Mikusz - Publicist at White Bear PR
Originally from Vienna, he has used his European connections to bring international acclaim to his clients. He has represented composers at major Film Festivals, such as Berlinale, Festival de Cannes, Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival. He currently is the US publicist for SoundTrack_Cologne, Hollywood in Vienna, Hollywood Music Workshop and worked on Amazon’s You Are Wanted World Premiere and the International Premiere of Babylon Berlin in Los Angeles. As a team member of White Bear PR, he has contributed to the Oscar/BAFTA/Golden Globe nominated score campaign to ‘Lion’ by Dustin O’Halloran & Hauschka the Emmy winning campaign for Michael Stein & Kyle Dixon for “Stranger Things,” and manages the social media outreach and presence of White Bear PR and its clients. In addition, he spearheads the campaigns and oversees Red Carpet and Guest Management for International Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Miami, as well as for the Ibero-American movie awards, The Premios Platinos. He also produces content, panels and events, including the “Toni Erdmann Oscar Event”, a "Tribute to Roland Emmerich" and “The Women Who Score: Soundtracks Live” concert in Los Angeles. As a moderator he leads panels at Cannes Film Festival, Universities such as NYU and Columbia College Chicago, Conventions such as WonderCon and BUMA Music in Motion and other major film and music festivals around the world, discussing the craft of film, television and video game music. Ruby Wasmuth, Composer Manager
Ruby gained a first class BA in Music Industry Management at Canterbury Christ Church University, followed by an MA in Film Studies at UCL with her dissertation focussing on contemporary film scoring. At university she was involved with the management of the student record label and concert series. She then worked at the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors, before joining Manners McDade as A&R Executive, working directly with composers for film and TV including ITV’s Thunderbirds Are Go and Amazon’s Catastrophe. Ruby speaks on a number of expert industry panels in the UK as well as at international conferences Music Finland’s Music & Media in Tampere and the East Coast Music Association in Halifax, Canada. Ruby was raised in Brussels, Belgium and is fluent in French. She plays the piano, and is a singer and Committee Member of London’s all-female voluntary choir, SHE Choir. |
13:30 - 14:30 CONFERENCE ROOM Workshop opening up the process. Working on the HARPA nominated movie QEDA is the fifth time, that filmcomposer Jonas Struck has profited from working with the experienced sound designer, Peter Albrechtsen (picture). In this workshop they will invite fellow composers and sounddesigners in to a world of musical questions, decisions and productions.
Peter Albrechtsen; Sound designer, music supervisor and writer.
Educated in sound at the National Film School of Denmark, 2001. Albrechtsen went to the European Film College in 1995-96, where he discovered his passion for film sound. At the college, he also met director Christina Rosendahl with whom he has worked together with ever since. His first feature length film was Rosendahl's documentary "Stargazer" (2002). Throughout the years, Peter Albrechtsen has worked on several Danish and international productions. Among the most renowned are Juho Kuosmanen's Finnish "The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki," winner of Un Certain Regard in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Ralitza Petrova's Bulgarian "Godless," winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2016 Locarno International Film Festival. |
Jonas Struck, composer and guitarist
Award-winning composer Jonas Struck is a graduate from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He has worked for more than ten years as a film composer scoring and supervising various feature films, national TV-drama series, and a large number of documentaries and short films. Latest the epic tennis drama ”Borg McEnroe”, starring Shia Le Beouf, the Sci-Fi movie ”Qeda – Man Divided” and the American TV-drama ”Conrad & Michelle”. Struck's sound is a mix of electronic soundscapes and organic instruments with strong signature themes that sums up the DNA of the movie. |
13:30 - 14:15 AUDITORIUM Panel
Working and not getting stuck. A conversation about working and not getting stuck. Moderated by Nicklas Schmidt (Denmark) |
Nicklas Schmidt is a Danish composer and arranger, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.He holds a masters diploma with honors from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire, and a post graduate soloist-composers diploma from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Nicklas worked as arranger and orchestrator on the Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated score for “The Theory of Everything” written by Jóhann Johánnsson. He has written the score for a number of feature films, documentaries, video games and TV series, earning international awards, nominations and several world premieres at film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival. His music has also been featured in a number of international classical music festivals and concert halls, including the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. His scores have been recorded with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (the Great Bear), The Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (Beyond Beyond), the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Zombiehagen), The Budapest Art Orchestra (A Conspiracy of Faith, The Arctic Giant & Klassefesten 2) and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Ronal the Barbarian). |
Christine Aufderhaar, composer and member of the jury behind HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award
graduated from the ‘Lugano Conservatory’ in classical piano performance (piano class of Nora Doallo, composition class of Paul Glass). Upon completion, she attended the Berklee College of Music and graduated in Film Scoring and Classical Composition in two years instead of the usual five years, receiving “summa cum laude”. Moved to Los Angeles and worked as part of a ‘Mentorship Program of the Society of Composers and Lyricists’ (SCL) with leading composers such as Alf Clausen (“The Simpsons”), Jay Chattaway (“Star Trek”) and Steve Bramson (“J.A.G.”). A member of the ‘German Film Academy’ and of the ‘Academy of German Music Authors’ and is a board members of the ‘Union of the German Film Composers’ (DEFKOM). |
Timo Hietala, composer, arranger and musician from Helsinki Finland. He is mostly known for his works with over 60 films; feature, documentary and TV.
Hietala has been nominated six times for JUSSI award, winning twice. In 2016 he won the Grand Score Award in Berlin and has also received nominations for Deutsche Film Preis 2011 and Nordic Film Composers Award 2011. Films with his music have won prizes like IDFA main prize 2015 and British Documentary Award ”Grierson Award” for best international documentary 2013 etc. In his works Hietala creatively combines different music genres; concert-, jazz-,improvisational-, ethnic-, rock- and electronic music, and is therefore held as the ”musical freethinker & maker” in the Finnish music scene. |
Hanne Hukkelberg, composer and performer
Hukkelberg makes intimate, idiosyncratic music, combining a stylistic range of music with a predilection for unusual sounds and a stunning, versatile voice that has garnered comparisons to Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Björk. Since 2003 Hukkelberg has released numerous works; and her self-produced album 'Trust' (2017), her most assured and accomplished work to date. It features singles The Whip (feat. Ingrid Håvik from Highasakite ), ‘IRL’ and Embroidery (feat. Emilie Nicolas). Over the last decade Hanne Hukkelberg has scored the music for several TV Series, shorts and documentaries. Latest Sofia Haugans ‘Røverdatter.’ |
14:30 - 15:00 AUDITORIUM WORKSHOP opening up the process. Danish composer Frans Bak demonstrates the different work methods of five composers who have been asked to make music for the same short movie. Watch the short video to get a feeling of whats in store.
Frans Bak is a film composer with 30 years of music experience in the Scandinavian television and film industry. To date Frans has scored well over 100 commercials. In 1990 Frans began scoring for film and television, covering all genres from symphonic orchestras to smaller ensembles and electronic scores. In 2002 Frans recorded his first TV crime series, Den 5:e kvinnan (aka “The Fifth Woman”) for Swedish Television. Later that year Frans composed all 20 episodes of the Emmy award winning Danish drama Nikolaj & Julie (aka “Nicholas & Juliet”).
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His music for the Danish TV--‐series Forbrydelsen (aka “The Killing”), of which he scored all 3 seasons, was noticed in Hollywood where he now has scored 4 seasons of The Killing – the US remake of Forbrydelsen.
He also scored the popular series Doctor Foster for BBC One and is now working in both Europe and USA as one of the most sought after composers in the film and tv business today. During his career Frans has scored 3 Oscar nominated shorts: Ernst & Lyset, Helmer & Son and Skal vi være kærester? |
15:15 - 15:45 AUDITORIUM Panel How can cooperation enhance the use of music? Moderator Petur Jonsson (Iceland)
Director Benedikt Erlingsson and composer Davíð Þór Jónsson has been working together for 2 movies. First 'On Horses and Men' and latest, the HARPA moninated 'Woman at War', on which the Icelandic national jury wrote:
The score of David Thor plays an important and original part in Benedikt Erlingsson´s movie "Woman at war". ... becomes an essential and emotional part of the narrative structure of the film... Free screening of the movie monday February 11th at 11:45 Through five movies sounddesigner Peter Albrechtsen and composer Jonas Struck has been collaborating closely. Latest on the HARPA nominated QEDA, where sounddesign and composition is closely interwoven.
Free screening of the movie monday February 11th at 10:00 |
16:00 - 16:30 AUDITORIUM Panel How do big international productions work? Meet Frans Bak (Denmark) - se above - and Patrik Andrén (Sweden), and hear about their work on big international productions. Moderated by Katariina Sorsa
Patrik Andrén (born 1971, Sweden) is a composer for film, tv and video games and he is mostly know for his music on The Bridge (Bron, Die Brücke) and video game Battlefield 1 and the currently released Battlefield V.
Patrik’s collaboration with composer Johan Söderqvist has resulted in working on films such as Kon-Tiki, In a Better World (Academy Awards Winner 2011) , Serena, Departement Q: The Keeper of lost causes (Kvinnan i Buret), The Absent one (Fasandräparna), Kapten Sabeltann, The King’s Choice (Kongens Nei) , Love is all you Need and more. Patrik has a film scoring degree from Berklee College of Music. |
The talk will pivot on Patrik Andrens music for the game, Battlefield and Frans Baks music for the international tv series The Killing.
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