The songs of Mira Siegel evolves around the mystical and otherworldly elements found in everyday life if you know where and how to look for it.

Mira Siegel is an award-winning Danish-American composer, songwriter and singer, based in Aarhus, Denmark. Daughter of both a composer and a writer, she has grown up a creative and searching soul. With her ethereal voice and pensive, wistful music she manages to create her own personal musical atmosphere.

In 2024 she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundations talent award as a composer.

In November 2022 Mira won both the jury’s first prize and the audience award for her piece in Aarhus Film Composition Competition, and thus became the first winner of this new competition. The piece was written for a 7 minute horror film clip and was played live by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.
Watch her entry below:

Same year she played at the festival for upcoming music, SPOT Festival in Aarhus.

In 2020 Mira was comissioned by ArtReach in England to write three pieces of music supporting and creating atmosphere for the recorded stories of three refugees. The three audio narrative projects were a part of Journey’s Festival International in 2020 and 2021.

In the winter and spring semester of 2018 Mira went abroad to London to study composition and contemporary music.

Mira holds a Master’s degree in Composition and a Bachelor degree in Vocal Studies from The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus. She is currently focusing on writing music and songs for different types of ensembles; string quartets, trombone ensembles and other less traditional instrument combinations.

While working as a composer she also performs with her singer-songwriter band in different setups.

In her songwriting, Mira draws a good part of her lyrical inspiration from fairy tales and myths and her music contains elements from traditional folk music, pop, classical music and world music.