Alex Olijnyk is an award-winning screen music composer and cellist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work combines acoustic and electronic textures to craft unique sonic worlds. She has a background in contemporary classical music, and loves to use these traditional sounds before putting them in a blender, shaking them up a bit, and giving them a good talking to.

Alex has scored various projects, including Paramount+’s Fake, Netflix’s Surviving Summer, and MIFF’s 2024 pick for Best Australian Short Film, The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste. She has also written additional music for the Sundance hit Together, First Nations horror The Moogai, and Netflix’s upcoming drama series Apple Cider Vinegar.

Alex was named Emerging Screen Composer of the Year at the 2024 APRA Screen Music Awards. She was also nominated for Best Music for a Short Film for her work on ‘Augie & Celeste’, and was nominated for the same award in 2023 for ‘My Bubble-Wrapped Exorcism’. In 2021 she was nominated for a South Australian Screen Award for her work on ‘Cicurlar’. Alex was part of the team on ‘Home’ that was nominated for a 2022 Australian Screen Sound Guild Award, and her work on ‘Small’ won Best Score at the 2024 Canberra Short Film Fest.

Alex does much of her work as part of Hyperdynamic, an audio creations studio she founded with collaborator and sound designer Hamish Keen.