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. She is a big fan of collaboration and loves the opportunity to work with other composers and musicians to better tell stories.

Alex has scored a variety of 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.

Alex was named Emerging Screen Composer of the Year at the 2024 APRA-AMCOS 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 ‘The Soft Skinned’ was nominated for Best Score at the 2022 Veterans Film Festival.

Alex has also been commissioned by various groups such as Arts Centre Melbourne, Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, Wattle Fellowship, New Stage, and the University of Melbourne.

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