Pablo Narváez (Colombia)

Pablo Narváez, born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1992, began his musical journey at age 7 with singing and violin, later adding guitar and trumpet. He studied sound engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, delving into Latin American music, composition, and orchestration. After graduating in 2018, he contributed to the Colombian music scene, teaching and composing for jazz ensembles and big bands. From 2017 to 2022, he expanded into record production and audio engineering, leading to a Master’s in Music for Motion Pictures from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. Now based in Europe, Pablo works as a film composer and music producer.

Bror Berglund (Norway)

Bror is a composer and guitarist currently based in Oslo, Norway. Having previously studied composition and sound design, he has since provided his expertise as a composer and sound designer on various short films and video games, with projects being presented at major Norwegian film festivals. Having played guitar since early childhood, with a particular love for jazz guitar, Bror has also garnered experience as a session musician in the studio as well as on stage. Devoted to sharing his knowledge and passion for music, he also works as an educator teaching Guitar and Music Production at Musikkskolen Norge (Music School of Norway).

Ulrika Varakaité (Lithuania)

Ulrika is surrounded by (film) music not only in a creative but also academic way. She is an assistant professor at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania where she teaches Film Music and Sound Effects and does music research. For her PhD thesis, she has investigated extramusical associations evoked by listening to music where film music appeared highly influential on listeners’ perception of music-image relation, and inspiration. Proceeding with her academic work in a similar direction, she also continues to learn the practical art of film music composition still being inspired by the summer program she attended last year.