Balz Bachmann
Composer
- Website
- www.peterundbalz.net
Since 1995, Balz Bachmann has mainly composed music for films, stage, television or art projects. He has worked with directors such as Jasmilla Zbanic, Xavier Koller, Dani Levy, Sabine Gisiger, Christoph Schaub and Thomas Imbach, as well as with artists such as Andro Wekua, Patrick Hari and Dimitri De Perrot. He has received numerous awards, including the Swiss Film Award, the Film Music Prize of the Locarno Film Festival, and a nomination for the German Documentary Film Music Prize. In addition to his work as a composer, he is a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and works as a music producer. Among others, he accompanied the singer Sophie Hunger as a musician on her tours. He is a member of the European as well as the Swiss Film Academy. In 2024, he was selected along with 12 composers for the Cannes Film Festival's ‘Spot the Composer’ programme and was invited as a composer at the festival. He lives and works in Zurich.
Filmography
(a selection)
Composer
- 2026
- Rebelión de la Memoria by Joël Louis Jent
- 2025
- Solidarity by David Bernet
- 2024
- Jakobs Ross by Katalin Gödrös
- 2024
- Operation Silence – die Affäre Flükiger by Werner Swiss Schweizer
- 2024
- When We Were Sisters by Lisa Brühlmann
- 2024
- Der Spatz im Kamin by Ramon Zürcher
- 2024
- Jelmoli – Biografie eines Warenhauses by Sabine Gisiger
- 2023
- Les histoires d'amour de Liv S. by Anna Luif
- 2023
- The Mies van der Rohes by Sabine Gisiger
- 2023
- 8 Tage im August by Samuel Perriard
- 2023
- In the Mood for Art by Michael Schindhelm
- 2023
- Las Toreras by Jackie Brutsche
- 2022
- Lucky Man by Claude Luyet
- 2022
- Think Something Nice by Claudius Gentinetta
- 2022
- Becoming Giulia by Laura Kaehr
- 2021
- Mitholz by Theo Stich
- 2020
- Der Konzern-Report by Sven Rufer
- 2020
- The Saint of the Impossible by Marc Wilkins
- 2020
- Miraggio by Nina Stefanka
- 2019
- Shalom Allah by David Vogel
- 2019
- Starshot by Samuel Perriard
- 2018
- Amur senza fin by Christoph Schaub
- 2018
- Bis ans Ende der Träume by Wilfried Meichtry
- 2017
- Willkommen in der Schweiz by Sabine Gisiger
- 2016
- Stille Reserven by Valentin Hitz
- 2016
- Im Nirgendwo by Katalin Gödrös
- 2016
- Bon voyage by Marc Wilkins
- 2015
- Yes No Maybe by Kaspar Kasics
- 2014
- Yalom's Cure by Sabine Gisiger
- 2014
- Love Island by Jasmila Žbanic
- 2013
- Die Schwarzen Brüder by Xavier Koller
- 2012
- Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari by Xavier Koller
- 2012
- Nebelgrind by Barbara Kulcsar
- 2011
- Tatort – Wunschdenken by Markus Imboden
- 2011
- Day Is Done by Thomas Imbach
- 2010
- Madly In Love by Anna Luif
- 2010
- Satte Farben vor Schwarz by Sophie Heldman
- 2010
- Hugo Koblet – Pédaleur de charme by Daniel von Aarburg
- 2009
- Giulias Verschwinden by Christoph Schaub
- 2008
- Die Seilbahn by Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun
- 2008
- Happy New Year by Christoph Schaub
- 2008
- Canzun Alpina by Sören Senn
- 2007
- Kein Zurück – Studers neuster Fall by Sabine Boss
- 2007
- I Was A Swiss Banker by Thomas Imbach
- 2006
- Lenz by Thomas Imbach
- 2006
- Jeune Homme by Christoph Schaub
- 2006
- Havarie by Xavier Koller
- 2006
- Alles bleibt anders by Güzin Kar
- 2006
- The Magic Cut by Jackie Brutsche
- 2005
- Floh! by Christine Wiederkehr
- 2005
- Gambit by Sabine Gisiger
- 2004
- Villa Henriette by Peter Payer
- 2004
- Sternenberg by Christoph Schaub
- 2004
- Lago mio by Jann Preuss
- 2004
- Chyenne by Alexander Meier
- 2003
- Homeland by Sabine Gisiger
- 2003
- Little Girl Blue by Anna Luif
- 2002
- Ernstfall in Havanna by Sabine Boss
- 2001
- Studers erster Fall by Sabine Boss
- 2000
- Summertime by Anna Luif
- 2000
- Do It by Sabine Gisiger, Marcel Zwingli
- 1999
- ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena, Stina Werenfels
Awards
(a selection)
- 2003
- Locarno, Locarno Festival, Schweizer Film-Musikpreis der Suisa-Stiftung für Musik (Winner) in Little Girl Blue
- 2012
- Luzern, Swiss Film Award Quartz 2012, Swiss Film Award «Quartz», Best Film Score (Winner) in Day Is Done
- 2015
- Genève, Swiss Film Award 2015, Swiss Film Award, Best Film Score (Nomination) in Yalom's Cure