Nora Baldenweg

Composer

Website
www.baldenwegmusic.com
Copyright: Flavio Karrer

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a composer team from Zurich.

Since 2004 the Swiss/Australian siblings have written film music for feature films such as Robert Lorenz’s IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS, Mike Schaerer's THE LITTLE WITCH (Die Kleine Hexe), Michael Steiner's RASCALS ON THE ROAD (Mein Name ist Eugen), Til Schweiger's HEAD FULL OF HONEY, Cihan Inan's 180°, Rolf Lyssy’s THE FINAL TOUCH (Die Letzte Pointe), Stefan Haupt’s THE REFORMER ZWINGLI. They have also composed for short films such as Lisa Brühlmann’s HYLAS UND DIE NYMPHEN and Timo von Gunten’s Oscar nominated LA FEMME ET LE TGV. They have collaborated with many acclaimed musicians, orchestras and conductors including maestro David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Kevin Griffiths, Dirk Brossé, Bandleader Pepe Lienhard and star violinist Daniel Hope.
They have also composed the scores for international TV series like THE UNLISTED (ABC/Netflix), ITCH (ABC/BBC) and BORN TO SPY (ABC/BBC).

They won the Suisa Prize for “Best Film Music” for 180° at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2010 as well as the Swiss Film Prize for “Best Film Music” for “THE LITTLE WITCH in 2018. They were nominated for “Score of the Year” (Public Choice) for THE REFORMER ZWINGLI at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2019 and they have been nominated multiple times for the Music+Sound Awards (International) as well as 3 times for “Best Original Music in Television” at the Australian Academy Awards (AACTA).

They are voting members of the European Film Academy, the Swiss Film Academy and the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV.

Filmography
(a selection)

Composer

2025
Clay by Kevin Haefelin
2024
Aiming High – A Race Against the Limits by Flavio Gerber, Alun Meyerhans
2024
Home is the Ocean by Livia Vonaesch
2021
The Life Underground by Loïc Hobi
2019
Zwingli by Stefan Haupt
2018
Zone rouge by Cihan Inan
2018
Die kleine Hexe by Michael Schaerer
2017
Die letzte Pointe by Rolf Lyssy
2016
Lina by Michael Schaerer
2016
La femme et le TGV by Timo von Gunten
2015
Amateur Teens by Niklaus Hilber
2014
Ziellos by Niklaus Hilber
2013
Hylas und die Nymphen by Lisa Brühlmann
2012
Draussen ist Sommer by Friederike Jehn
2010
180° by Cihan Inan
2010
Der letzte Weynfeldt by Alain Gsponer
2008
Marcello Marcello by Denis Rabaglia
2007
Liebe und Wahn by Mike Huber
2006
Cannabis by Niklaus Hilber
2005
Roger Federer – Replay by Christian Neu
2005
Building The Gherkin by Mirjam von Arx

Awards

(a selection)

2018
Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2018, Swiss Film Award, Best Film Score (Winner) in Die kleine Hexe
2010
Locarno, Locarno Festival, Prix SUISA pour la meilleure musique de film (Winner) in 180°
2019
Gent, 19th World Soundtrack Awards, Public Choice Award (Nomination) in Zwingli
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