The Nominees 2022

Michele Braga is a multi award winning composer based in Rome (Italy), where he was born in 1977. Since early childhood, he was an avid listener of any musical genre without prejudice: from hard rock to Chopin’s preludes, from 80s pop music to Italian songwriters, and everything in between.

Braga started as a self-taught musician, and later perfected his skills studying composition and orchestration under M° Alessandro Cusatelli. Much of Michele Braga’s musical corpus consists of scores for movies and TV series. His first foray in the world of movie soundtracks is the 2007 film “Come tu mi vuoi” by Volfango de Biasi. With the 2006 short film “Basette“, Braga started his collaboration with Gabriele Mainetti, which continues to this day. It is indeed still with Gabriele Mainetti that Braga had the chance of scoring the music for “Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot”, a 2015 Italian superhero-themed full feature.

In 2020 Michele Braga received the “Soundtrack Stars Award 2021” for Freaks Out by Gabriele Mainetti (premiered at 78th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia).

Besides cinema, Michele Braga’s collaborations with TV productions are also worthy of notice.  He created the soundtracks for the Netflix series “Generazione56k”, “Luna Park”, and “An Astrological guide for broken hearts” among others.

Since 2015, Braga has been collaborating with the Italian National Synchronized Swimming Team for the World Championships and for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). For the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Braga has composed “A song from Humans and Machines”.

Gabriele Mainetti was born in Rome (Italy) in 1976. He is a Director, Actor, Composer and Film Producer. Gabriele is known for his short films “Basette” (2008) and “Tiger Boy”. This last one won the Silver Ribbon (2013) as Best Short Film and was shortlisted for the live action short films at the 86th edition of the Academy Awards. In 2015 he directed “They call me Jeeg”, produced by his production company Goon Films and winner – among other awards – of 7 David di Donatello Awards, 2 Silver Ribbons, 4 Ciak d’oro and the Italian Golden Globe. In 2016 Mainetti produced the short film “The Millionairs” by Claudio Santamaria, which was presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival during the Film Days. In 2018 Gabriele Mainetti directed and co-produced with Goon Films, together with Lucky Red and in collaboration with Rai Cinema, his second film “Freaks Out”, nominated with 16 nominations and winner of 6 David di Donatello Awards in 2022and winner of 3 Silver Ribbons 2022.

The Danish artist LYDMOR has toured all over the world with her colorful and bombastic electro-pop show.

She’s visited festival and club stages on four continents from LA to New York, London to Berlin, Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur and Buenos Aires to Mexico City. She’s famous and even infamous for always delivering a magical cocktail of challenging visual shows and combining them with her mesmerizing conceptual electropop. She’s an artist who never compromises and who always goes her own way.

In 2022 she is touring in a different and more stripped-down version. The critically acclaimed musician replaces the neon paint, light production and pulsating electro beats with an intimate acoustic setup focusing on the songs. With this approach LYDMOR wants to evoke a different life in her picturesque songs.

In 2020 LYDMOR kickstarted the second wave of #metoo in Denmark when she wrote an open letter to the Chief Editor of the national newspaper Ekstra Bladet criticicing their sexistic tone when reviewing female artists. 

LYDMOR is the first Danish ambassador for Keychange (a movement that fights for a sustainable music industry and encourages organizations to take a pledge for gender equality). Besides being an outspoken feminist, artist and a score composer LYDMOR also host her own radio program “Mon Amie Complexe” at Danish national radio where she’s exploring fellow creatives and their creative process. 

Born in 1966 in Täby outside of Stockholm in Sweden, Johan Söderqvist attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying composition and arranging.

A versatile musician who has been a keyboard player in many different jazz bands and folk music groups, Johan has toured extensively around the world before concentrating his activities on composition for film, television and theatre.

He wrote his first film score in 1991, Agnes Cecilia, and since then he has written numerous scores for film and television, including eleven scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers, After the Wedding and, Things We Lost in the Fire, where he collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and in 2010 , the Academy award winning In a better world.

In 2005 & 2009, Johan Söderqvist was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers (2005) and Let the right one in (2009) scores . The Brothers score was also awarded for Best Film Music in Cannes as well as the ’Rencontres cinématographiques de Cannes’ Award for Best Music in Film.

In 2013 Kon-Tiki by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rönning gained a Golden globe nomination & an Oscar nomination as Best foreign film. Together with Patrik Andrén he did the music for world-famous video games Battlefield 1 (2016) & Battlefield 5 (2018).

In 2018 he rejoined with Espen Sandberg (Kon-tiki) and they did a film about Polar Explorer Amundsen .

His latest projects include the Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal by S.J. Clarkson and his fourth collaboration with Norwegian director Erik Poppe, the Swedish film The Emigrants.

Flemming Nordkrog is a Danish composer based in France. In 1996 at the age of 23 he fell completely in love with composing for films, when he scored his first projects for the The National Film School of Denmark.

He soon began working on his first feature films, including “King’s Game” by Nikolaj Arcel. 

Over the years, he has created music for more than 100 feature films, TV-series, documentaries and short films.
Lately he has completed the scores for the HBO series “Kamikaze”, French films “Ogre”, by Arnaud Malherbe, “Sixteen” by Philippe Lioret and “L’etabli”, by Mathias Gokalp as well as Max Kestner´s documentary-musical “Little Galaxies” for which he received the Carl Prisen award. In 2021 he earned the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award for the music to the Brazilian film “Shine Your Eyes” by Matias Mariani.

Manel Santisteban was born in Madrid in 1956. Self-taught and eclectic. Influenced and motivated by his parent fond of Jazz,initially he dedicates himself to Jazz. During the eighties, attracted by synthesizers, he slipped into Pop and records, adapted and composed for renowned artists such as Tino Casal, Mecano, Radio Futura, Monserrat Caballé,The Mondragón Orchestra, Ana Belén, Olé Olé, Pepe de Lucia,or Julio Iglesias.

In 1985, he formed La Decada Prodigiosa, the group recorded eleven albums, represented Spain in Eurovision Song Contest (1988), and reached the sum of nineteen platinum discs. In 1983 he received the prize of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers, and in 1986 he directed and arranged the music of Matador of Pedro Almodovar. In 1997, he obtained the First place prize in the international composer contest of the John Lennon Songwriting (www.jlsc.com). In 1996, he began to compose the music of more than 800 episodes of the fiction series (Vis a Vis, La Casa de Papel: Money Heist) and many others. In 2005, he was nominated in the Music Awards (SGAE-AIE) for the African Spirit album. As a film composer he worked with Fernando González Molina in his films Fuga de Cerebros, Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo and Tengo Ganas de Ti. With Carlos Theron in Fuga de Cerebros 2.
And with Alex Pina in Kamikaze.

Ivan Martinez Lacámara

Born in Zaragoza in 1977 in a family of musicians, he began his musical studies at the age of 5, going through the Conservatory and various music schools, until obtaining the Professional Degree in Piano and Harmony in 1998. In 1999 he met the composer Manel Santisteban, with whom he collaborated in many projects over the years. Since then, he has composed the Original Soundtrack of many television series, spots, and short films, as well as arrangements and musical production in films, tours and records. Some of his most outstanding works in the field of TV series include: “Money Heist”, “Locked up”, “The Boat”, “Un, dos, tres”.

Roman Kariolou started his career as a violinist, taking his first violin lesson at the age of three and performing his first concert a year later. At the age of five Yehudi Menuhin recognized his talent and invited him to join his class at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music in London and from then on he continued his violin studies at the College of Music Lϋbeck, University of Music Vienna, Mozarteum Salzburg, University of Music Graz.  Roman’s strong interest and talent in composition led him in 2004 to study at the Film Music Institute Los Angeles.

At a young age, Roman has already composed music for more than 50 Film and TV productions for major TV Stations such as the BBC, National Geographic, CBS, ZDF, ORF, ARD, ARTE and many more. Roman was commissioned to compose official Symphonic Anthems for the Olympic Winter Games, Handball Champions League, the European Championship and the Bank of Austria, as well as the Hymn for Cyprus. He furthermore composed music for large scale events like the Formula 1, Red Bull Air Race and the World Football Gala. Roman has worked with several renowned orchestras, such as the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Amongst Roman’s recent music film score credits are: Emmy nominated documentary “Africas Wild West”  National Geographic and  BBC Series “Operation Stonehenge”, Shadows from the Past, directed by Hollywood director Robert Dornhelm, The Forbidden Wife, directed by Hansjörg Thurn, Mother Teresa: Saint of Darkness, directed by Magdalena Koller,

In 2009, Roman Kariolou was the winner of the ‘Vienna Film Music Award’. The prize was awarded to him by Bruce Broughton who was the chairman of the jury.In 2012, ASCAP presented Roman with the Harold Arlen Film & TV Award in NewYork.In 2013, The Green Screen Festival, acknowledged Roman by awarding him the title of ‘Best Music’ for the film  The Empress and the Forest. In 2015, Roman has written the scores for two Emmy nominated productions: “Operation Stonehenge”  BBC and “Africas Wild West”, National Geographic.

Swiss-British composer Dominik Scherrer works from his studio in Spitalfields, London. As well as composing for the screen he creates soundtracks for art installations and composes and directs opera for the screen. His film-opera Hell for LeatherUS-premiered at Sundance and went on to receive 10 awards. His score for the Amazon/BBC series Ripper Street received an Ivor Novello award, and in 2019 he received a further Ivor for his score for Netflix’s Requiem, made in collaboration with Bat for Lashes. His score for the thriller series The Missing was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. He also recently won his second Ivor Novello Award for his score on Netflix’s Requiem, which he co-composed with Natasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes.  Recent scores include The Tourist (HBO), Baptiste (BBC) and The Widow (Amazon).