Tatiana Mikova is a czech film music and classical music composer and orchestrator based in London. She is a relative of composer Zbysek Bittmar.
Since 2003, Tatiana has been involved in the film industry. After her opportunity to score short films and John Friedel’s American feature film Treasure of Anna Hawkins, she started working for major film productions in the Czech Republic in 2008. She created orchestral arrangement for F.A. Brabec’s feature romance May and 3D feature film musical Magical Duvet. Tatiana collaborated with renowned film director Juraj Jakubisko on his large historical drama Bathory (with Anna Friel and Franco Nero) as a composer and orchestrator. She has also worked with famous director Jiri Svoboda, for whom she scored period horror The Forest of Dead and period drama Incorrigible. Tatiana is best known for her film music to the highly successful and awarded feature trilogy and TV series: Trabant Goes to Africa, Trabant on the Silk Road, Trabant vs. South America/Trabant at The End of The World, where she combined various music styles with symphony orchestra.
Tatiana composes film music in a wide range of instrumentation (orchestral, ethno - rock, electronic and folk music or combination) and her composition style could be described as mainly orchestral or in combination with electronic sound or world.
Besides film scoring Tatiana has been composing classical concert music (since her childhood), both orchestral and chamber.
Tatiana cooperates with The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conductors Adam Klemens, Leos Svarovsky and Jan Chalupecky. Tatiana’s chamber work Overture, has been premiered by Minnesota Sinfonia/USA and TV broadcast. Her two compositions for nonet performed by famous ensemble The Czech Nonet have been radio-broadcast by American Public Media, as a part of the most-listened-to classical music radio program Performance Today, and also broadcast by other radio stations worldwide.
Tatiana studied Postgraduate course MMUS Composing for Film and TV at London College of Music/UWL, composition and instrumentation with Milan Jira (Prague Conservatory, 15 years), Jonathan Darnborough (Oxford University, OUDCE).
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS:
2018, Winner, Los Angeles Film Awards, Herself - Best score
2018, Winner, Herself, Global Music Awards Bronze Medal.
2018, Nomination, American Tracks Music Awards , Herself - Best score.
