Marcel Vaid Explained

Marcel Vaid (born 1967) is a Swiss-German musician and composer of music for film and theatre.

Life and career

Born in Erlangen, Germany, Marcel Vaid's father is of Punjabi origin from India. Besides his work as a composer and music producer, he composes music for fiction and documentary films. Marcel Vaid is together with his brother Ravi Vaid also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz.He has collaborated with artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Toshinori Kondo, Kate Havnevik, Mauro Pawlowski, Rodrigo González, Norbert Möslang, Marianne Schroeder, Lauren Newton and Jojo Mayer. In film Marcel Vaid has worked with director Léa Pool, Eliza Kubarska, Carmen Jaquier,, Fredi Murer,, Marcus Vetter, Milo Rau,, Oliver Paulus, Tommaso Landucci or oscar-nominated Timo von Gunten.

He has received the Swiss Film Prize Quartz four times (Zara 2009, Goodnight Nobody 2011, When the sun fell 2016 and Chris the Swiss 2019), the Prix Fondation Suisa (Tandoori Love 2009), the prize for Best Film Score at the Filmfstivals in Angers (Joshua 2003) and Valencia (Where is Max 2009). In 2012 he received the Zurich City Award (Werkjahr der Stadt Zürich).[1]

In 2022, Marcel Vaid was honored as Composer in Focus of the Zurich Film Festival with a medley of selected works performed by the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under the direction of Frank Strobel. According to his own statement, "the examination of acoustic instruments and their spatial processing on the computer is a particular sound-aesthetic concern for him."

Marcel Vaid is a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts,[2] and gives various master classes. He is a member of the Swiss and European Filmacademy[3] [4] and board member of the Swiss Composers Association SONART, the Swiss Musician's Association.

Filmography (selected work)

Feature films

Documentary films

Television

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Auszeichnungen - Stadt Zürich .
  2. Web site: Dozierende | ZHDK.ch .
  3. Web site: Die Mitglieder der Schweizer Filmakademie | filmakademie.ch .
  4. Web site: Marcel Vaid, member of the European Film Academy: Presentation .

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