Marcel Vaid, 2017 at Festival Jazz Art Sengawa, Tokyo
Born in Erlangen, Germany, Marcel Vaid's father is of Punjabi origin from India. Besides his work as a composer and music producer, he composes music for fiction and documentary films. Marcel Vaid is together with his brother Ravi Vaid also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz.
The Band Superterz, 2019 at the Club Pit Inn, Tokyo with (FLR) Ravi Vaid, Marcel Vaid, Simon Berz, Nils Petter Molvaer
He has received the Swiss Film Prize Quartz four times (Zara 2009, Goodnight Nobody 2011, When the sun fell 2016 and Chris the Swiss 2019), the Prix Fondation Suisa (Tandoori Love 2009), the prize for Best Film Score at the Filmfstivals in Angers (Joshua 2003) and Valencia (Where is Max 2009). In 2012 he received the Zurich City Award (Werkjahr der Stadt Zürich).[1]
In 2022, Marcel Vaid was honored as Composer in Focus of the Zurich Film Festival with a medley of selected works performed by the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under the direction of Frank Strobel. According to his own statement, "the examination of acoustic instruments and their spatial processing on the computer is a particular sound-aesthetic concern for him."
Marcel Vaid is a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts,[2] and gives various master classes. He is a member of the Swiss and European Filmacademy[3][4] and board member of the Swiss Composers Association SONART, the Swiss Musician's Association.
Feature films
2002 Joshua by Andreas Müller
2003 AtParish by Yaël Parish
2006 First Love, Last Rites by Susanne Kaelin
2007 The Illettrist by Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand
2008 Zara by Ayten Mutlu Saray
2008 Der Freund, in collaboration with Sophie Hunger, by Micha Lewinsky
