Born in 1967 in southern Germany, the composer and creative entrepreneur has been making music since his early childhood. He composed his first piano pieces at the age of 11, further piano works and theatre music followed. His setting of Aristophanes' "The Birds" led him on a tour to China in 1986.

He began his professional career with two master's degrees in economics. After a few years as a top management strategy consultant and group division head, he became managing director of his own creative agency and consulting firm. Well-known global corporations engage him as an innovative thought leader and strategy consultant. "I have always drawn my professional creativity from music.“

Influenced by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Lloyd Webber, he has continually developed his compositional repertoire. He received jazz lessons in New York from Adam Birnbaum and Danny Mixon. He refined his piano style to a musical lyricism that crosses several genres and sends the listener on an emotional journey as "film music for the cinema of the mind".

Awarded by many international prizes and honors: www.come-closer.org

"Making possible what others dream of". The Austrian filmmaker and organizational virtuoso has been running the production company named after him for more than 20 years. His career has spanned many stations in various industries. He began with the realization of the first music videos at BMG studios. His career led him to his mentor Peter Stückl, a gifted mountain and nature filmmaker, who taught him what makes impressive film art and dramaturgy.

Today, Peter Mang's audio and video productions stand as a symbol of high-tech quality and cinematic communication, and are used extensively by local and international clients in particular because of their authentic emotionality.

Awarded by many international prizes and honors: www.come-closer.org

The son of Egyptian parents was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and received his first ballet lessons in Cairo at the age of eight. In 1996, at the age of only 16, Maged got his first engagement at the Cairo Opera Ballet Company, where he became a solo dancer after only one year. In 1998 he graduated from the Higher Institute of Ballet in Cairo and received a scholarship from the UNESCO Art Foundation in the same year. The scholarship opened the door to the prestigious Associazione Balletto Classico in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he danced at the ABC (Cosi-Stefanescu) during the 1998/99 season and where he also graduated from the University of Fine Arts.

In 2000, at the age of 20, he came to the Staatstheater Meiningen as a soloist and then became a member of the ensemble at the world-famous Semperoper in Dresden. From the 2008/2009 season until August 2015 he was a member of the ensemble of the renowned Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. Since then he has worked as a freelance coreographer and freelance ballet director for renowned ensembles in Germany, Italy, France, Russia and Switzerland.

Anna Greenberg was born and raised in New York City where she completed her academic studies as well as her classical ballet training at numerous famed ballet schools. Beginning at the School of American Ballet, she regularly performed with the New York City Ballet. Continuing with her pre-professional training at the Joffrey Ballet School, she met her long-time coach and mentor, Era Jouravlev with whom she still works with today and later, graduated from American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. During her time as a student, Anna had the opportunity to perform as a ‘guest artist’ in multiple productions of ‘The Nutcracker’ around the nation.In 2019, Anna joined the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München as an apprentice of the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, Germany.

Joaquin Angelucci is a 20 year old Australian classical and modern dancer. He trained at the Australian Ballet School for 3 years, before joining the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2018. In 2019 he joined the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München under the current director Ivan Liška. Here he performed many iconic pieces from renowned names such as George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian and Hans Van Manen, as well as participating in numerous creations with other choreographers. However he is currently based in Stuttgart working under director Eric Gauthier as a part of the Gauthier Dance Company.

Alexander Hille, a Minnesota native, graduated from the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists in 2007, followed by the Juilliard School in 2011. After graduation, he joined Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal (2011-2018) where he was promoted to Principal dancer in 2014, and had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers and travel the world. Since 2011, Alexander has had the pleasure of guest performing with Benjamin Millepied's Los Angeles Dance Project on a few occasions, Company XIV's off Broadway production of Nutcracker Rouge in New York City, appearing in the Chromeo ft. French Montana music video Don't Sleep, performing with Cirque du Soleil, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, 7fingers circus company, pursuing choreographic opportunities such as, making work for the Festival of Fashion and Design in Montreal (2016-2017), and re-staging work for his friend and mentor Andonis Foniadakis, in the US and Germany. Alexander now dances at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Germany.

David Valencia trained at the Incolballet in Santiago de Cali in Colombia. While still a student, he was awarded second prize at the international ballet festival "La Habana". After completing his studies he continued his training in modern dance, ethnic dance, tango, singing and acting. After first engagements in Lausanne, Chemnitz and Munich, he danced most recently in the ensemble of the Gauthier Dance Company at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart and at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau. Since the 2015/2016 season he has been a member of the ballet company of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. Currently he is also developing his repertoire as a choreographer.

Amelie Lambrichts was born in Belgium and received her training at the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp. She was a finalist in the Youth America Grand Prix in New York and a semi-finalist in the Korea International Modern Dance Competition. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Contemporary Dance from Codarts University in Rotterdam.

Amelie began her professional career at the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and the Lucerne Theater. In 2012 she appeared for the first time as a soloist at the Theater Nordhausen and took part in a series of gala performances throughout Germany. From 2016-2019 she was a soloist at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz München. In August 2019 she was engaged by the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. Since 1.06.2020 she dances again at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.

Frank Meyer is a Director of Photography based in Munich and Sofia. His professional life began as a focus puller in Berlin, mostly for feature films, commercials and music clips. He studied cinematography at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) and learned from Michael Ballhaus, Slavomir Idziak, Bela Tarr and Volker Schlöndorff. There he graduated with the feature film "Der Blinde Fleck" (The Blind Spot).

To date he has made 10 feature films and numerous music videos, commercials, corporate films and primetime television formats for major German broadcasters such as ProSieben and ZDF. His visual works for the celebrated artist Clemens von Wedemeyer have been exhibited at documenta13, MomA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou and film festivals such as Cannes or Berlinale. Since 2013 he has been working with his own Steadicam equipment, constantly expanding his technical and creative repertoire.

In 2008, after studying mechanical engineering, I turned my passion into a profession and started working in media production as technical support and later in a technical management position, before I started my own business as an editor and videographer in 2013. Today, instead of machines, I prefer to build powerful and emotional video clips into stories with people from people for people.
A wide variety of media productions for film, television and companies always provide new creative variety and challenges.

This project shows once again impressively that great things can be created with a passionate and creative team. I hope we can touch as many people as possible with it.“

Martin works as a freelance motion designer and visual effects artist in the film industry. His job is to create aesthetic visual worlds solely through the intelligent use of modern computer technology. His early affinity for visual effects in film and television led him to learn and use various CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) programs in his youth. Coupled with his cinematic expertise, he produced sophisticated computer-generated films that were not only convincing in terms of quality, but also contained dramaturgical elements that made them unique. Positive customer feedback and an inner urge to enrich other industrial, social and cultural fields with professional computer generated films led him to found MD-Art in 2016.

Chris, 29 years old from Weilheim, is an accomplished event and people photographer.
Natural, multi-faceted photography is his trademark. With spontaneous snapshots he succeeds in capturing the naturalness of his motifs. Thus, with minimalistic effort, he creates pictures that show people in unique moods and situations.

Since 2013, Felix Oliv has been working in his hometown of Munich as a classic all-rounder behind the camera. He takes on versatile tasks as a cameraman, focus puller, sound man or as an assistant. In visual design he unfolds his technical and creative passion.

For more than 25 years I have been working in the audio recording and mixing business, mostly at my own studio “BARBEQ-Sound”, Traubing, but also at some of the biggest production facilities all over Bavaria. I love working with creative people creating impressive music, audiobooks, films and commercials from stereo up to Dolby Atmos to deliver a great sound that convinces my customers and their listeners.

I am really honored to be a part of the great Color YOur Mind team, getting inspired by so many lovely and talented people from the dance, music and film art. The quality speaks for itself. That’s why I am sure that Come Closer is a starting point from which we will hear more excellence soon.

When passion becomes a profession, even a vocation! The trained educator has always had an interest in fashion and costumes. Her talent was first put to use in the carnival concerts of the Philharmonic Choir in Munich. Eventually, she was responsible for the costumes of all the choir's opera productions from Aida to Un Ballo in Maschera. Her great skills have been in demand for years at historical events as well as in various film and television productions.

Being the organizing hand in the background, Sabine made sure that the entire crew was well looked after. She shuttled VIPs and ensured a good atmosphere and plenty of food and drinks on set on all days of shooting.

As a creative volunteer, Jule supported the recording planning and organization of the shooting days. Her attentive time management ensured that all music playback worked well and all takes were completed on schedule.