Biography
Joëlle Nager is an award-winning film composer with outstanding achievements. Since her youngest age she participated in various composition workshops, concerts and masterclasses and won several prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition in the categories Piano and Composition and her first movie score won twice the Best Original Score Award.
While still at high school, she was taken up in the Talent Promotion Programme in Composition at the State Music Academy of Basel, graduated in 2022 at the University of West London in Film Music Composition with First Class Honours, holds a Conducting Diploma and completed her Master’s degree at the Berklee College of Music in Screen Scoring. For her outstanding achievements as a film composer, Berklee College of Music offered Joëlle Nager a scholarship.
Her compositions have been performed and recorded at the Künstlerhaus Boswil, Ticino Musica Festival, St. Mary's Church in London, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, AKSS Studio Berklee, Budapest Art Orchestra and Air Studios London. Her first released score to the movie EGO (Clatopictures, Imbd) was twice awarded with the title of Best Original Score. In 2023, she was chosen to write a commissioned piece for the 100-jubilee of the Swiss Collective Rights Management Society SUISA, that was performed at the Murten Classics Festival.