Fabian Römer (composer)

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Fabian Römer at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

Fabian Römer (born October 28, 1973 in Zurich ) is a Swiss musician and film composer .

Life

Römer is the son of a music teacher and has been playing the violin since he was four. After graduating from the canton school in Schwyz in 1994, he completed a professional degree in music (SMPV) with a major in violin with Slobodan Mirkovic . He also played the keyboard in several bands. In 1995 he co-founded the GYSKO Soundlab recording studio in Pfäffikon. In that year he also composed his first score for the French film Les Egares by director Gabriel Le Bomin. In 1998 he worked as a music supervisor in London at Videosonics, after which he moved to Munich. In the following years he composed film scores for television and cinema productions, but also for radio plays and advertising.

At the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in 2005 he received the prize for the best film music for a cat in a poke by Florian Schwarz . In 2006, Römer was awarded a "Clef d'Or" Prix du Jury du Public for the best music at the 7eme Festival International Musique et Cinema for the French film Les Fragments d'Antonin (director: Gabriel Le Bomin) and the German TV Prize in the category Best music for the Tatort episode Snow Drift (Director: Tobias Ineichen ) awarded. He was also nominated for GEMA's first German music author award in 2009. In 2010 it won the German Film Critics' Prize and was nominated for the German Film Prize in the category Best Film Music for Anno Saul's Die Tür . In 2015 he received the German Music Author Award in the category of composition audiovisual media as well as the award of the German Academy for Television in the category of music for Tannbach - fate of a village .

Fabian Römer lives in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Fear in My Head - FilmWednesday in the First. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .