The SUISA Foundation for Music awards a prize of CHF 15'000 to the composer of the best original fiction soundtrack.
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The Swiss composer and musician Niki Reiser was presented with the 2011 SUISA Foundation for Music award on 10 August 2011 for his original score to the film "Das Blaue vom Himmel" by the director Hans Steinbichler. The award is endowed with CHF 10'000.
From the more than 20 top quality candidatures that were submitted, the jury unanimously decided on Niki Reiser's score for this elaborately staged film "about the power of love and the strength of forgiveness". An enormously effective musical theme impressively embedded in the composition, the score is of a very high level and sensitively integrated in the film, never too much and never too intrusive; all of these are convincing arguments that led to the decision.
"Caught in eternity – Marga’s sentence at the beginning of the film was to accompany me for the seven months I spent on the music for "Das Blaue vom Himmel".
Every time I sit down to a new film score I resolve to continue with my normal life, but at the end I always realise that I have lived through the film's story and its characters and have lost all distance to them.
(...) And even if it seems like I was captured in the characters' world for an eternity, I always leave them at the end of my work on the film as new friends.“ Niki Reiser
Niki Reiser was born in 1958 in the canton of Aargau (Switzerland). He studied jazz and classical music at the Berklee School of Music in Boston with a focus on film music. His later instructors included Ennio Morricone and Jerry Goldsmith.
In 1986 Reiser began his long-standing cooperation with the director Dany Levy.
Ten years later he composed the music for Caroline Link's debut feature "Beyond Silence" (“Jenseits der Stille”). Reiser already received the film music award from the SUISA Foundation in 2001 for his music to "Kalt ist der Abendhauch".
Niki Reiser lives and works in Basel.
www.dasblauevomhimmel-derfilm.de
The film was produced by the firm of film gmbh < www.diefilmgmbh.de >. "Das Blaue vom Himmel" had already received the 2010 Bavarian Film Award – Best Production in January 2011.
From left to right:: Urs Schnell (SUISA-Foundation, Director), Niki Reiser, Marco Blaser (Jury President). © by Otto B. Hartmann.
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