Born in Texas, composer/musician Nik Phelps now lives and works in Gent, Belgium. He has played with musical artists as diverse as Eric Johnson and Lou Rawls, Frank Sinatra and They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa and Mary Martin. He recorded for over 10 years with Tom Waits, playing on three soundtracks and five CDs.
He began working with film music in 1988 with the Club Foot Orchestra, the influential San Francisco soundtrack group that was the premiere modern silent film orchestra. Since 1995, he has been working in the animation world and was nominated for an Annie Award for his music for the CBS TV series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. In 1996, he founded the Sprocket Ensemble, a project combining live music and animated film.
He is active in the animation scene, creating music and sound for animators such as Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Lei Lei, and Ivan Maximov. Nik enjoys working with directors of all ages in the field of music and sound design, and working with schools, forums, and festivals, conducting workshops dealing with performance technique and the creative process.
He has been a jury member at numerous animation festivals and is currently involved in giving Performance for Pitching workshops at pitching forums throughout Europe.

Chen Pin-Chen, nominated for Best Film Score at the Taipei Film Festival with Intimate Encounter, is a TNUA Composition graduate whose works span classical, experimental, film, and animation music, featured at major international film festivals.

A film and multimedia composer who loves animation, anime and telling stories with music. Portfolio: shuoanchen.com


Shang Te Lin is a music producer, composer, and managing Harvest Music which is one of the most important music education companies. He is also an award winning film composer ( 52th Golden Horse Awards: Best Original Score ”Thanatos, Drunk”) and produces thousands of songs in the industry.

Lin Hsiao-Chin is a composer, sound designer, recording engineer and mixing engineer who loves to tell stories through sound. By combining various elements such as classical orchestral sounds, traditional music, electronic synthesizers, and sound design, he has developed a rich composing style. This unique approach has led to his works being highly acclaimed, making him the designated music composer for many directors and producers in film, animation, and motion graphics.

Ann Lee, a crossover composer active in both scoring for visual media and classical composition from Taiwan. Her works, encompassing a wide range of styles and forms, are distinguished by intricately shifting timbral colors and graceful melodic lines that evoke vivid imagery and rich narrative atmospheres. By integrating Eastern and Western musical idioms, she creates compositions that balance poetic subtlety with dynamic tension.