ABOUT MIRJAM

Mirjam Skal is a film composer based in Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a master‘s diploma in film scoring at the Zurich University of the Arts and has been working as a freelance composer over the past few years. Her work includes music for many shorts films, advertisements, documentaries, and music for the national Swiss television (SRF). In 2018 she won the “TAURUS Award” for best music in an animated film (“The Market of Lost Things”) at the Animatou International Film Festival in Geneva. Her most recent work can be heard on TV in the cult crime series TATORT, where she scored two feature-length episodes.

In 2021 Mirjam has been selected as a sound studio participant in Berlinale Talents, which has been a mind opening experience for her. In the same year Mirjam has been chosen to be part of the AWFC Mentorship program under the guidance of renowned composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi). Following the mentorship, Mychael Danna invited Mirjam to compose additional music for the film WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.

As a synaesthete, Mirjam‘s approach to composing is very intuitive. She is fascinated by combining live instruments with electronic soundscapes to create evocative textures. In 2020 she recorded and conducted her orchestral composition ANIMA with the Budapest Art Orchestra. She is also an experienced orchestrator and has been contributing to the music of bands such as ELUVEITIE and ILLUMISHADE.

Mirjam is an active member of the Swiss film music industry. As vice-president of Forum Filmmusik and part of the advisory board of SONART she’s an advocate for the industry and represents her generation. Since 2021 she has been a board member of the film music festival SoundTrack Zurich, where she enjoys being behind the scenes as well as taking part in the programme as a moderator and speaker.