Tatiana Mikova is a multi-awarded Czech classical and film music composer based in London.
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 arrangements for F.A. Brabec’s feature romance May and the 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 director Jiri Svoboda, for whom she scored feature period horror Les Mrtvych/Forest of Dead and feature period drama Nepolespitelny/Incorrigible. Tatiana wrote film music to the highly successful trilogy and TV series: Trabant Goes to Africa, Trabant on the Silk Road, Trabant vs. South America/Trabant at The End of The World.
Further, Tatiana wrote music for short US-produced films directed by Kintan Chauhan: Herself, The Christmas Sneeze aka The Sneeze Of Love and Life A Beautiful Reality. She also worked with Colin Macrae, Edinburgh based film director and producer on short films esCape Town and Ma Mapula, which was distributed by Discovery.
Mikova’s film scores received many international awards including Oniros Film Awards, 2022, Best Soundtrack for “Incorrigible/Nepolepsitelny“, Los Angeles Film Awards, 2019: The Best Score for “Herself”, New York Film Awards, 2020: The Best Score for “The Christmas Sneeze” aka The Sneeze Of Love, Horror Film Awards, New York, 2022: The Best Music in Film for Forest of the Dead, The Thing In The Basement Horror Fest, 2021: The Best music for “Les Mrtvych/Forest of the Dead” and other awards/nominations. Her soundtracks were featured on Classical Music for Modern Life radio show/UK hosted by Mark Kermode. Mikova’s scores were performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in Smecky Music Studios. (conductors Adam Klemens, Leos Svarovsky and Jan Chalupecky. Tatiana composes film music in a wide range of instrumentation (orchestral, ethno - rock, electronic and folk music or combination).
Besides film scoring, Tatiana has been composing classical music (since her childhood). She is an author of concert works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments.
She received international recognition for her chamber “Two Nonets” (Spanish Serenade and Fantasia on Moravian Themes) performed by the renowned Czech Nonet. These two chamber works won Global Music Awards - Golden Medal in the USA in 2019 in categories composer/classical contemporary music and were also featured on Performance Today (American Public Media, hosted by Fred Child), Classical KUSC/Los Angeles hosted by Alan Chapman, Classical KDFC/San Francisco and other radio stations worldwide. In 2022, her orchestral work Sinfonietta For Orchestra won 2nd Prize diploma at an international competition - 4. EUROPEAN COMPOSER COMPETITION Vienna/Austria in the category Orchestra pieces. Her String Quartet “In Modo Lidico” was premiered/streamed in New York, 2021 by Lehner String Quartet. Tatiana’s work Overture for chamber orchestra has been commissioned, premiered by Minnesota Sinfonia/USA and TV broadcast in 2006.
Tatiana has received a Master degree with distinction in Music Composition (Composition for Film and TV) from the University of West London (the London College of Music) the United Kingdom, where she studied with Leigh Phillips, she also studied classical music composition and instrumentation with Milan Jira (Prague Conservatory, 15 years) and Instrumental composition with Jonathan Darnborough (Oxford University, OUDCE) and further with composer Moises Miranda.
Performing Rights Organization: ASCAP, USA (affiliated both as a composer and publisher), Alliance for Women Film Composers.