CHIARA STRICKLAND
info[at]chiarastrickland.deChiara Strickland is a composer for film, TV and theatre.
During her Musicology studies at the University of Heidelberg she developed a special interest for film music, subsequently writing her final thesis on Alfred Schnittke’s film scores. She then studied Film Music and Sound Design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg where she composed and produced the music for a variety of film, theatre and TV productions. Galamsey by Johannes Preuss, for example, received the Student Academy Award for best documentary of an international film school in 2017.
In 2021, Chiara was awarded the Golden Horseman at Filmfest Dresden together with Marc Fragstein and Luis Schöffend, winning „Best Sound Design“ for her music on Shoko Hara’s animated documentary Just a Guy.
Coming from a traditional instrumental background, her work has developed a strong focus on crafting dense sonic atmospheres, which she creates using her voice and a wide array of synthesizers. Chiara’s compositions have been recorded, among others, by the Slovakian orchestra Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina and the renowned German Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
Currently, she is working as a freelance composer in Berlin and Heidelberg.
Photo: Markus Himburg | Design: Johannes Geier & Chiara Strickland | Development: Paula Schwabe & Marc Fragstein
© 2022 Chiara Strickland | Impressum / Datenschutzerklärung
MUSICOLOGIST
FILM COMPOSER
Film | Documentary
Rohbau – 2023
Director: Tuna Kaplan | feature length film
Stumm vor Schreck – 2022 | Trailer | Music
Director: Daniel Popat, Actress: Annette Frier | feature length film | Hof Critics Award at 56. Internationale Hofer Filmtage
Wut auf Kuba – 2022 | Trailer | Music
Directress: Naira Cavero | feature length film | official selection Filmfest München 2022
Mein fremdes Land – 2021 | Trailer | Music
Directors: Johannes Preuss & Marius Brüning | feature length documentary | winner best documentary at Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2021
Rio Negro – 2021 | Trailer
Directress: Anna-Sophia Richard | documentary | silver at Young Director Award 2022
Countdown zum Hochzeitstraum, 37 Grad Documentary – 2021 | Film
Directress: Julia Knopp
Das unerschrockene Wort – 2021
Directress/Director: Nele Dehnenkamp & Marc Eberhardt
School without walls – 2020 | Trailer
Director: Johannes Preuss | documentary
Mein Wille geschehe, 37 Grad Documentary – 2020 | Film
Director: Maximilian Damm
Just a Guy – 2020 | Trailer | Music
Directress: Shoko Hara | animated documentary | Winner Grand Prix at Animafest Zagreb 2020 | Winner Best Short Film at Karkow Filmfestival 2020
Waid – 2020 | Trailer | Music
Director: Lorenz Piehl | short
Die Berührerin, 37 Grad Documentary – 2018 | Film
Director: Filmkombüse Film- und TV-Produktion
Hassjünger – 2018
Directress/ Director: Julia Knopp, Maximilian Damm | feature length documentary
Cowboypirat – 2018 | Music
Director: Konstantin Schuch | short
Galamsey – 2017 | Trailer
Director: Johannes Preuss | documentary | Student Academy Award for best Documentary (International Film Schools) 2017
Erstaufnahme II – 2016 | Trailer | Intro | Music
Director: Pablo Ben Yakov, Marc Eberhardt | documentary
Ludwigsburg Sinfonie – 2016
Director: Marcel Wehn | documentary
Joy – 2016 | Trailer
Directress: Abini Gold | best short film at the Live at Heart Film Festival 2017
Skywriters – 2016 | Teaser
Lead Composer: Dascha Dauenhauer, Director: Nils Otte | documentary | Cannes Corporate & Media TV Awards 2017
Gestern habe ich angefangen dich zu töten mein Herz – 2016
Directress: Annika Schäfer | short
Out of the Box – 2016 | Music
Directress: Caroline Siegner | short
Flüchtlinge in Deutschland – Wer profitiert? – 2015
Director/Directress: Julia Knopp, Nils Otte | Deutscher Wirtschaftsfilmpreis 2015
Gedanken Übermacht – 2015 | Music
Director: Oliver Völkel | documentary
Herbert – 2011
Director: Konstantin Schuch | short
Kraterherz – 2009
Directress: Julia Bernhardt | best short film at the Girls Go Movie Film Festival 2009
Animation | Visual Music | Experimental
Klimax – 2022 | Trailer | Film
Directress: Bea Höller | animated short
Just a Guy – 2020 | Trailer | Music
Directress: Shoko Hara | animated documentary | Winner Grand Prix at Animafest Zagreb 2020 | Winner Best Short Film at Karkow Filmfestival 2020
Beauty of Loneliness – 2020 | Music | Film
Directress: Lea Thurner | short
Die sicherste Sauna der Welt – 2020 | Teaser
Director: Nils Knoblich | animated short
Institution of Suspense – 2019 | Teaser
Director: Daniel Stubenvoll | experimental | Gruppenausstellung Creating a ‚we’
After Silence – 2017 | Music
Director: Henning Himmelreich | motion design
Cheveyo – 2015
Directress: Abini Gold | experimental short
Performance | Installation | Theatre
I am (no) mother – Premiere am 02. Juni ’23
Directress: Karoline Stegemann| performative audiowalk
HaNeu23 – 2023
Directress: Karoline Stegemann| performative audiowalk
Transitory Monument – 2022
Directress: Nicola Schubert | performative audiowalk
hfg_projekt – 2021
Directresses: Schubert-Stegemann | performative audiowalk
Fallsucht – 2020 | Trailer
Directresses: Schaefer||Scherpinski | autobiographical performance
Quartett by Heiner Müller – 2018 | Trailer | Music
Directress: Annika Schäfer
Counterparts – 2017 | Music
Directress: Paula Schwabe | interactive, audiovisual light installation
Jetzt.Tanz. – 2016
Directress: Anna-Elisabeth Frick
Das Rinnsal Rhein der Totenfluss – 2015 | Trailer
Directress/Director: Annika Schäfer, Wilke Weermann | Nibelungen-Festspiele Worms
Commercials
Beyond Tellerrand – 2022 Düsseldorf | Spot
Directress: Diana Eglseder | Opening Titles for the Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Düsseldorf in May 2022
Memories to the Future – 2021
Directress: Lea Thurner
Beyond Tellerrand – 2018 Düsseldorf | Spot
Director/Directress: Diana Eglseder & Michael Groß | Opening Titles for the Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Düsseldorf in May 2018
Google #OMR18 – 2018 | Spot
Director: Zweiundachtzig Medienproduktion | Social Spot for the Online Marketing Rockstars Festival, Hamburg
Machs Dir nicht unnötig schwer – 2017 | Spot
Director: Klaus Merkel | Social Spots for the German parliamentary election in 2017
