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Lauren Finch is a media composer based in the UK. Her experience spans a range of different forms from narrative and documentary films, to theatre and audiovisual exhibitions – with award-winning projects screening at BIFA, BAFTA, and OSCAR qualifying festivals worldwide. She was nominated for the Music and Sound Rising Star Award in 2024, and in 2025 her music was selected to be performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the London Soundtrack Festival Gala Concert. Lauren’s music can be heard on Ólafur Arnald’s Opia record label, and she has also assisted on acclaimed series for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky. In 2025, she received the FMF Kraków Young Talent Award Scholarship and has also participated in First Artists Management’s C.A.M.P programme, Lorne Balfe’s Thrive composer programme, and the ScreenCraft Works Cross-Border programme.
Barney Rudkins-Stow is a composer & producer from Brighton creating dynamic and engaging music for artists and media. He works confidently in many genres, but feels at home in the land of cinematic, folk and indie styles of pop. Although he began his musical journey with piano and guitar, Barney is a passionate percussionist and studies Brazilian percussion with G.R.E.S. Cidade Brilhante (Brighton School of Samba). He enjoys incorporating his varied musical tastes to produce work that is exciting, yet authentic. Over the past 2 years, Barney’s works and collaborations have been used in film trailers, television promos and numerous reality series alike.
Jessica is part of the next generation of composers redefining the sound of modern cinema and television. Her music blends the emotional depth of orchestral storytelling with the texture of electronic and folk influences, creating a style that’s both cinematic and deeply human.
Jessica’s love of music began in her youth while studying ballet and theatre in New York City, eventually leading her to Warner Bros. Studios in London, where she was recruited by Hans Zimmer to apprentice at Remote Control Productions. After honing her craft as a music editor and additional composer, she found a pivotal mentorship under Academy Award–winning composer Mychael Danna.
An alumna of the Universal/DreamWorks Composers Initiative and a proud member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, Jessica has had her music performed on stages around the world — from The Globe Theatre in London to The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago to The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
VALI3N is a composer, producer, and sound designer specializing in creating original scores and sound design for media. With over a decade of experience in electronic music and sound design, as well as a constant drive to push the boundaries of creativity, his introduction to production music allowed him to realize his vision by blending his passions for storytelling, music, and technology, delivering impactful, lasting sonic experiences.
Jessica Roch is a London-based composer, solo artist and session musician whose solo work blurs the lines between ambient, classical, electronic and experimental.
Her recent composition ‘Pandemonium: Music for Parakeets’, created for an exhibition at London’s Design Museum, was performed live to a parakeet and human audience, pressed to vinyl and featured in Classical Music Magazine.
A classically-trained violinist and pianist, her solo work juxtaposes a variety of genres, regularly blending ambient/electronic textures with the subtleties of minimalism, jazz, experimental, folk and more. Her most recent solo single ‘Sixteen Fifty-Two’ (Moderna Records) was featured at No. 3 on Apple Music’s Classical Edge playlist and received airplay on stations around the world including BBC 6 Music and KEXP.
She has written music for a variety of films and other media and her upcoming projects include scoring a new narrative feature film and her first game soundtrack.
Celebrating composers working in production music. Submit your work for the Composer Spotlight Award and be recognised at this year’s Production Music Awards.
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Our five winning Composers will be announced on the 14th October 2025 here and on our socials.
Shortlisted Composers’ work is shared with and judged by some of the industry’s most respected libraries and publishers.
Entering is simple. Here’s how the Spotlight Award works…
Upload your music and short profile via the Spotlight Award entry form (entry fee £25)
The Production Music Awards team selects a shortlist of standout entries
Shortlisted works are reviewed by a panel of experienced professionals from leading production music libraries
Five winning composers will be announced on the Production Music Awards social channels in advance of the ceremony
Winners will be invited (free of charge) to the Production Music Awards ceremony where they will receive a Composer Spotlight Award trophy and be celebrated as part of this year’s event
This category intends to lift up the work of composers who are in the early stages of their production music careers, regardless of age or prior experience in other fields of music composition.
The Awards want to highlight the work of these Composers and open the door to building relationships with production music libraries.
The Production Music Awards celebrates the best library and production music creators and curators. We’ve been bringing creative people together in our industry since 2015 with our awards ceremony which takes place in London.
The Spotlight Award is open to emerging composers (over 18) working in production music.
You are eligible if you are either unpublished, or have had your first release with a production music library within two years of the awards ceremony date (14 November 2025).
Composers should submit a link to a publicly accessible portfolio of your work (e.g. your website, SoundCloud, YouTube etc). A short written profile about you as a composer should also be included.
There is a fee of £25 to enter this category.
Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of industry professionals from production music libraries. A shortlist will be announced in advance of the ceremony, followed by the announcement of five winners. Judging will take into account the originality and creative potential demonstrated in the portfolio and accompanying written statement.
