Silvio Buchmeier
Silvio Buchmeier is a Swiss composer and orchestrator based in Zurich. A jazz-trained saxophonist, he combines classical instrumentation, electronics and bespoke recordings across film, theatre and immersive work.
His music for Viva Frida Kahlo and Enlightenment has reached more than three million visitors worldwide. For Enlightenment, he reimagined Vivaldi’s Four Seasons alongside his own music. His stage work includes the sound composition for Marco Michel’s solo theatre piece CHLÖISU – Die Wirklichkeit ist nicht alles; his string quartet Jardin intérieur was premiered by the JACK Quartet in New York in 2019.
Building on orchestration work on films including The Flash and Thirteen Lives, he contributed orchestrations to Dara Taylor’s score for the forthcoming Spaceballs: The New One. A Fulbright Scholar, he earned his Master of Music at NYU Steinhardt. He also develops custom music datasets with Tokyo-based Neutone for AI-enabled sound transformation and received Fondation SUISA’s “Get Going!” support in 2024.