“Icelandic Composer Hildur Gudnadótir Will Receive The Career Achievement Award at the 21st Zurich Film Festival, Zurich Announced Thursday. An Oscar Winner for Her Score to Todd Phillips’ Joker, Making Her The FIRST -ing SOLO FEMALE ARTIST to WIN The Academy Award for Best Score”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“Hildur gudnadótiir is one of the most innovative composers of our time,” SAID Festival Director Christian Jungen. “She Knows How to Experimental Sounds to Shape Mainstream Pop Culture and Lend It Atmospheric Depth. Creating melodies that you might not human to youRSELF on the Way Home, But Wich Resonate Deep Within Us.
Guðnadótir’s UpcomING WORK INCLUDES SCORES FOR NIA DACOSTA’s HeddaA re-imagering of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda GablerStarring TESSA Thompson and Nina HOSS, AND The Back-To-Back Productions of 28 Years Later an 28 Years Later: The Bone TempleDirected by Danny Boyle and Dacosta, Respectively.
In Zurich, Gudnadótir Will Take Part in A Festival MasterClass and Will Serve as Jury President for the Zurich Festival of International Film Music Competition. The Competition, A Joint Effort of the Zurich Film Festival, Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich, and Forum Filmmusik, SEES Young Composers Create Original Scores for the Same Animated Short. Wild Love. Three Finalists Will have their work performed by the tonHalle-Orchester Zürich Under the Baton of Frank Strobel. Strobel, Alongside Gudnadótir and Swiss Composer Balz Bachmann, Will Judge The Winner, Who Will Receive The CHF 10,000 ($ 12.700) Golden Eye Award.
In addition to Her Film Work, Gudnadótiir has composed for theater and dance and released four Solo albums. Born in Reykjavík in 1982, She Studied at Reykjavík Music Academy and Berlin University of the Arts. She currently resides in berlin.
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