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Biography

Joëlle Nager is an award-winning film composer with outstanding achievements.

Professionally working in Los Angeles, London and her home country, Switzerland, her first movie score won twice the Best Original Score Award.

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Since her youngest age, Joëlle Nager participated in multiple musical activities and concerts  and won several prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition in the categories Piano and Composition. While still at high school, she was taken up in the Talent Promotion Programme in Composition at the State Music Academy of Basel. In 2022, she graduated at the University of West London in Film Music Composition with First Class Honours and she completed her Master’s degree at the Berklee College of Music in Scoring for Film and TV in 2023. For her excellent achievements as a film composer, Berklee College of Music offered Joëlle Nager a scholarship. In addition, she is a professionally trained conductor and holds a Conducting Licentiate Diploma from the London College of Music. Further extension courses have led her to UCLA, Film University Babelsberg and Zurich University of the Arts.

Her compositions have been performed and recorded at Air Studios London, Paramount Theatre Bristol, Catskill Mountain Foundation New York, Saint Marks in the Bowery Church New York, Murten Classics Festival, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, AKSS Studio Berklee, St. Mary's Church London, Ticino Musia Festival, and Künstlerhaus Boswil. Collaborations have included Budapest Art Orchestra, Hilaris Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Moss Ensemble New York, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Valley Opera of the Arts (Los Angeles), Valencia Community Orchestra, and Symphony of the Mountains (Tennessee). Her works have been streamed on LTV East Hampton, New York and Radio SRF 2 Kultur.

Her first released score to the movie EGO (Clatopictures 2022, Imbd) was twice awarded with the title of Best Original Score (FilmCon and Monthly Indie Shorts). In 2023, she was chosen to write a commissioned piece for the 100-jubilee of the Swiss Collective Rights Management Society SUISA, that was premiered at the Murten Classics Festival and re-performed by the Symphony of the Mountains.

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