ABOUT
KARIM YOUNIS
Scraps (2017)
Kilo 64 (2018)
MComp Royal College of Music London
Karim Younis is a London-based composer, pianist and music producer originally from Switzerland.
He studied Traditional and Contemporary Composition at the University of Arts Bern before completing a Master’s in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music in London. There, he studied with Enrica Sciandrone and Maurizio Malagnini, with whom he now works as composer assistant on the long-running BBC series Call the Midwife.
Karim works across film and television music, combining composition, music editing, orchestral mockup production, Pro Tools session preparation, audio cleanup and close collaboration throughout the film/TV music workflow.
His music has been written for film, theatre, advertising, concerts and live performance, with projects screened, performed and broadcast internationally. Selected credits include the feature documentary Kilo 64, screened at the Cairo International Film Festival; the award-winning short film Cactus Boy; the award-winning animation Fledgling; and the VR film The Thin Layer.
As a pianist and composer, Karim’s work focuses on melody, emotion and storytelling. His music ranges from intimate piano and neoclassical textures to cinematic, orchestral and hybrid writing for visual media.
His concert work includes orchestral pieces inspired by the stories and legends of Canton Valais, music theatre work performed at the Dampfzentrale Hall in Bern, and a string quartet piece broadcast on Swiss Radio SRF2.
Cactus Boy (2019)
BA Hochschule der Künste Bern
