Mikel Hurwitz

In the past couple years, Mikel Hurwitz has written for and conducted the Hollywood Film Orchestra and the Costa Rican National Philharmonic as a fellow with the LA Film Conductors Intensive, scored the feature documentary Soul of a Nation, and seen his music grace over 40 feature films on six continents. But his journey as a composer began long before these recent milestones.

Born the same month that the iconic Juno-60 Synthesizer was released, Mikel first appeared in the Toronto Star at age two, playing drums in a toddler music class. From those early days at the Royal Conservatory piano bench to improvising on guitar as a teenager, Mikel’s musical path has always been eclectic. At 15, he attended his first film scoring session and never looked back.

After studies that took him from Vancouver to Oaxaca, Mexico and eventually to the Berklee College of Music Film Scoring program in Boston, Mikel honed his craft in Los Angeles on Danny Elfman’s music team working on films like The Grinch, Dumbo, and Justice League. Shortly after, he fully launched his own composing career, scoring award-winning documentaries and series like the Gentefied digital series, which was picked up by Netflix at the Sundance Film Festival.

Now based in Toronto with his wife, pianist Irina Bazik, and their two children, Mikel continues to blend orchestral and electronic worlds, bringing a unique voice to the global film music stage.

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