Alex Olijnyk is a screen 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. Her work for short films, television and advertising has been screened around the world.

Alex has been nominated for a 2023 APRA Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Short Film for her work on ‘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. She received a 2019 IgniteLAB Creativity Grant, a 2018 New Colombo Grant, and a 2017 Corinna D’Hage Mayer String Scholarship.

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