RAHEL ZIMMERMANN

Born in 1988 in Glarus, Switzerland. Bachelor's degree in architecture at ETH Zurich. Studies in composition and theory with a focus on composition for film, theater and media with Peter Scherer and Germán Toro Pérez, Master's degree in May 2019. 

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Receiver of a Hans Streiff Foundation scholarship in 2018 and the Christoph Delz Foundation Werkjahr for 2020. In 2021/22 she was a Junior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum with the project Listening to Changing Shapes, an investigation of the perception of complex moving shapes in auditory space. 

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She won the Special Award for the Most Atmospheric Soundtrack at the Upcoming Filmmakers Festival in Lucerne in 2016 for Bei Wind und Wetter, and the Best Original Music Award for a Short Film at the Annecy Festival in 2022 for La Reine des Renards. 

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She works as a composer, scoring films, theater and installations, writing instrumental pieces and creating acousmatic works, always with a special interest in spatialization.

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