Tatiana Mikova is a multi-award-winning Czech classical and film music composer based in London.

Since 2003, Tatiana has been involved in the film industry. After scoring 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 historical drama “Bathory” (starring Anna Friel and Franco Nero) as a composer and orchestrator. She has also worked with director Jiri Svoboda, for whom she scored the feature period horror “Les Mrtvych/Forest of Dead” and the feature period drama “Nepolepsitelny/Incorrigible.” Tatiana composed film music for the highly successful trilogy and TV series: “Trabantem napric Afrikou/Trabant Goes to Africa,” “Trabantem Hedvabnou stezkou/Trabant on the Silk Road,” and “Trabantem Jizni Amerikou/Trabant vs. South America”/“Trabantem az na konec sveta/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, an Edinburgh-based film director and producer, on the short films “esCape Town” and “Ma Mapula”, the latter of which was distributed by Discovery.

Mikova’s film scores have received many international awards, including the Oniros Film Awards 2022 for Best Soundtrack for “Incorrigible/Nepolepsitelný,” the Los Angeles Film Awards 2019 for Best Score for “Herself,” the New York Film Awards 2020 for Best Score for “The Christmas Sneeze” aka “The Sneeze of Love,” the Horror Film Awards, New York 2022 for Best Music in Film for “Forest of the Dead,” and The Thing in the Basement Horror Fest 2021 for Best Music for “Les Mrtvých/Forest of the Dead,” among other awards and nominations. Her film music has been performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra at the Smecky Music Studios, conducted by Adam Klemens, Leos Svarovsky, and Jan Chalupecky. Tatiana composes film music in a wide range of styles, including orchestral, ethno-rock, electronic, and folk music, or a combination of these. Mikova’s film music score were featured in the “100 Women Film Composer” Spotify Playlist, and a British film critic Mark Kermode included her music in the radio program”Classical Music for Modern Life.”

Besides film scoring, Tatiana has been composing classical music since her childhood. She is the author of concert works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments.

She received international recognition for her chamber works "Two Nonets" (Spanish Serenade and Fantasia on Moravian Themes), performed by the renowned Czech Nonet. These two chamber works won the Global Music Awards - Gold Medal in the USA in 2019 in the categories of 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 a 2nd Prize diploma at an international competition - IV. European Composer Competition in Vienna, Austria, in the category of orchestral pieces. Her String Quartet "In Modo Lidico" was premiered and streamed in New York in 2021 by the Lehner String Quartet. Tatiana’s work "Overture for Chamber Orchestra" was commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Sinfonia/USA and broadcast on TV in 2006.

Tatiana received a Master's degree with distinction in Music Composition (Composition for Film and TV) from the University of West London (the London College of Music) in the United Kingdom, where she studied with Leigh Phillips. She also studied classical music composition and instrumentation with Milan Jira (Prague Conservatory, for 15 years) and instrumental composition with Jonathan Darnborough (Oxford University, OUDCE), as well as with composer Moises Miranda. Additionally, she completed the Sound Design Course: Experimental Foundations at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Sound Art 1: Creative Field Recording and Music Concrete in the UK. She also received a scholarship for a Film Scoring Workshop with Hollywood composer Christopher Young.

Performing Rights Organization: ASCAP, USA (affiliated both as a composer and publisher), and she is a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.