Mirjam Skal wins Müller Prize for film music
ZHdK graduate Mirjam Skal wins the Rolf Hans Müller Prize for Film Music 2024, endowed with 5000 euros, for her composition for the SRF crime scene "Von Affen und Menschen".
The seven-member jury praised Skal "for the outstanding film music, which impresses with its high musicality and creative depth". Mirjam Skal shows "a great flair for lending the film an additional dimension through a very striking, idiosyncratic sound concept that tastefully marries traditional orchestral instruments with electronic sounds". Her composition achieves a skillful balance between tension, dynamics and emotion through catchy themes and the multi-layered sound design. The award ceremony took place as part of the Televisionale Film and Series Festival Baden-Baden.
Mirjam Skal was born in 1996 and lives in Zurich. She received her Master's degree in Composition for Film, Theater and Media from the Zurich University of the Arts in 2022 and works as a freelance composer. In 2018, she won the Taurus Award for best music in an animated film. As Vice President of the Forum Filmmusik and part of the advisory board of the Sonart association, she represents the Swiss film music industry.
The Rolf Hans Müller Award for Film Music has been honoring young talent for outstanding film music since 1992. The prize, which is organized by Südwestrundfunk, is sponsored in equal parts by the Rolf Hans Müller Foundation Baden-Baden and the MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg.
