Niki Reiser

Quick Facts

Full Name	Niki Reiser
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	May 12, 1958(1958-05-12)
Age	66
Birthplace	Reinach
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Basel-Landschaft
Horoscope	Taurus

Niki Reiser Biography

Niki Reiser is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on May 12, 1958 in Reinach, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Niki Reiser was born the year 1958 at Reinach, Aargau in Switzerland The child of a pastor and nurse. Prior to moving to Basel at the age of twelve and has been there ever since then, he lived for 4 years living in Schaffhausen. Alongside classes in classical flute as a child was also able to create his own songs on the piano. In his early years, he performed in various bands, and composed pieces for them , and also for theatre performances in school.

When Reiser realized that the impossible was to do a flutist as well as composer simultaneously and compose, he shifted his focus to composition. Alongside working with Levy and other composers, he composed music for Caroline Link, whom he was introduced to in the year 1996. His breakthrough came through the soundtrack to her film Beyond Silence. In her documentary Nowhere in Africa, Reiser was a student of African songs in Nairobi. The influence of native Kenyan music can be heard in the music he composed to accompany the movie. In addition to film and television films He also composed music for theater. In 2008, he wrote a new score on Link to score A Year Ago, which premiered in winter. The score was awarded the Preis der German Filmkritik as well as the Deutscher Filmpreis of 2009.

As of 2012, Reiser was awarded the German film prize Deutscher Filmpreis five times. In 2005, he was the 12th recipient of the Rheingau Music Prize, as “a composer who repeatedly and majestically succeeds in meeting the particular dramaturgical needs entailed by film scores, and thus suffusing each individual work with its own unique sound”.

The year 1986 was the time that Reiser relocated back to Europe and met director of films Dani Levy. He composed the soundtrack for his debut movie Du mich auch. The film was a dazzling success all over Europe which led to it being selected for nominations in the Golden Camera at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1987. The film’s success led to a long-lasting relationship, which led to Reiser writing the soundtrack for every one of Levy’s films.

Niki Reiser Net Worth

Niki Reiser is one of the richest Composer from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Niki Reiser 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Niki Reiser (born 12 May 1958) is a Swiss film score composer as well as a flute player. He is regarded as to be one of the top film composers in the German-speaking world, and has won the German Film Award five times. His debut came in 1986, when he composed with the music score of the movie Du mich auch, directed by Dani Levy, for whom the composer has composed all subsequent scores. His breakthrough came through the music for his film Beyond Silence, directed by Caroline Link in 1996.

Through the 70s Reiser was a classical musician with a particular focus on flute in Basel. Between 1980 and 1984, he was a student the arts in Boston in Boston’s Berklee College of Music jazz and classical music, with an emphasis of film-related music. From 1984 to 1986 Reiser resided in Europe and mainly in Switzerland and continued his composition studies in Basel. In the workshops at America, U.S., he met Ennio Morricone and Jerry Goldsmith who influenced his music. In this period, he wrote his first film scores. In this time, he also played as a jazz flute in the group People that he co-founded.

Reiser has his studio in Basel’s Gundeldingerfeld. He is on the board of the Deutsche Filmakademie since its inception in 2003.

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Niki Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Niki Reiser celebrates birthday on May 12 of every year.