Cole Vakassian
Cole Vakassian is a Los Angeles based composer for film, television, and video games. He draws from a diverse musical experience playing in concert bands, drum lines, string orchestras, choirs, and jazz ensembles. He studied Film & Media Scoring and Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music. Today, Cole works with various independent creators, writing music for their film, game, and television projects.
Aaron VanLaan
Aaron VanLaan is a composer and arranger from the Memphis area. Involved in music from a young age, he fell in love with the saxophone from the first time he heard the instrument. That love would take him into college studying music at the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Though life would come along and sideline his musical aspirations for a time, music never completely left it’s place in his life. Fast forward to today and after the past several years of self initiated study, Aaron has found his footing back in the musical world, striving to continuously improve his craft. Though he continues expanding his compositional horizons in many genres, his heart has always been enamored with the big band sound.
Nick Venuti
Nick Venuti is a percussionist, producer, composer, and arranger who tackles a wide variety of styles and genres of music. A recent graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Contemporary Writing & Production, Nick is based in Los Angeles and has experience varying from ambient synths and percussive minimalism, to psychedelic indie pop and reality TV petty drama. Ultimately, Nick's music aims to be genuine without taking itself too seriously.
Alain Weiller
Alain A. Weiller is an epicurean when it comes to music, as the diversity of his compositions attests.
He is one of the rare composers of his generation to have been active in such varied fields as song,
film music, circus music, advertising, jazz and classical music.
His artistic training reveals his pugnacity in bringing to a successful conclusion the projects for
which he is responsible, so that the disciplines he has studied never suffer from approximation.
Indeed, he began his artistic education at the age of 9 when he entered the Annie Fratellini circus
school, where he learned juggling, walking on a tightrope and acrobatics. Annie was the first to
advise Alain to learn the trumpet (which came full circle when, in 2011, he composed the new
music for PINDER, the legendary circus from ‘La piste aux Etoiles’).
At the age of 16, he was awarded a Conservatoire Prize, followed by a 1st Prize for Excellence in
Musical Training at 17. He took lessons in harmony and composition while discovering computer
music, which was still in its infancy. He then taught himself piano, keyboards and singing.
For 15 years, he performed in France and all over the world.
On his return to France, he was signed by Universal Publishing and set up his own recording
studios in Boulogne Billancourt and London. He went on to write and collaborate with artists as
diverse as Johnny Hallyday, Michel Portal, Daniel Vigne, Smain, Liane Foly, Claudia Cardinal, Guy
Lecluyse, Pierre Richard, Bruno Salomone, Virginie Hocq, Charlotte de Turkheim, Barbara Cabrita,
Michel Legrand, Michel Leeb, Olivier Megaton, François Morel, Nadia Farès, Eric Aubier, Fanny
Ardant, Monica Bellucci, Camille Cottin and many more. . for advertising, television, cinema,
theatre, songs and arrangements.
During his career, which he wanted to remain discreet from the general public, Alain composed
songs for Johnny Hallyday for his last album for Universal.
He orchestrated 12 original songs composed by Michel Legrand for Big Band et Orchestre shortly
before his death.
He composed classical pieces for Eric Aubier, an international concert trumpeter, which were
performed and recorded in Seoul with Beautiful Day.
He wrote a book entitled ‘A quelques notes près’ in tribute to his trumpet teacher, Lucien, who helped him turn his sensitivity into an artistic asset.
In love with the sound of the flugelhorn, he composed and performed ‘Velvet Syncretism’, an album
of diverse musical influences, mixing wide-ranging melodies inspired by classical, jazz, film, ethnic
and synth-pop, but always with meticulous arrangements.
Sarya Wu
Sarya (they/them) is a Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter/poet based in Seattle. They were previously located in Edinburgh and Taipei, where they began making music in 2017.
Sarya’s work stems from spoken word and DIY music scenes, using emotional lyrics to fuel their ethereal vocals. Sarya likes to play with video game-inspired electronic 8-bit noises to create songs about the worries of everyday life. Spanning across multiple genres and always eager to experiment, Sarya has over 1,000,000 streams for their latest EP, "take care of yourself." "I don't know where I'm going, but that's okay" was featured on The Herald Scotland as the #1 song of new Scottish music in 2020.
Yuliya Yefremova
Yuliya Yefremova, also known as Soundseeker, crafts an electrifying blend of Slavic power and Eastern grace in music.My musical journey began in the Soviet Union, where I completed my studies at the Conservatory and performed as a pianist in various concerts. With a solid foundation in music theory and extensive performance experience in the former Soviet Union, I gradually transitioned into composition and music production. Since 2019, I has performed live as a DJ in Milan. I have collaborated with numerous international artists, both renowned and emerging, contributing to the production of albums in pop and electronic genres, including Stefano Secco, an Italian tenor (La Scala Theatre, Milan), Telma Domingues from the Teatro at Academia de Música de Viatodos, and Lara De Belder, a creator for British theatre, film, and TV. During the pandemic, she organized several online events featuring artists from various nationalities. In November 2022, she released the album “Airone,” characterized by an ethno-electronic style that skillfully blends acoustic and electronic sounds with a keen sensitivity for sonic beauty. Her musical creations have frequently charted in the independent music scene, such as Ethnocloud. In 2020 and 2021, she participated in the International Songwriting Competition in Nashville, USA, reaching the semifinals both times. In 2022, she was nominated for the International Independent Music Awards ShowForMe. In 2024, she begins collaborating with DJ Brahms, Brice Amo, Ashutosh Sohoni e Sandro Friedrich on various cultural projects. In June 2024, the album “Electric Desert” was released, published by BMG Production Music in an oriental style. The same year, she signed a contract with Warner Chappell Music and released two electronic singles with Middle Eastern influences. In March, the album “Luminiscence” was released by Cafe de Anatolia, featuring a mesmerizing fusion of organic elements, deep tribal beats, and ethereal melodies, bringing listeners into a realm where ancient rhythms meet contemporary sonic innovation.
