About

Rebekka Karijord is a Norwegian-born composer, musician, and producer whose work spans film, theatre, dance, and recorded music.  With a career that bridges genres and disciplines, she is known for her emotionally driven compositions, bold use of voice and orchestration, and a distinctive ability to fuse the experimental with the accessible.

Over the past two decades Karijord has scored more than 50 films, series, and theatrical works.  Recent credits include her 2026 standout score for Jennifer Peedom’s Tenzing, an Apple Original film, telling the true story of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his historic 1953 summit of Everest alongside Edmund Hillary. Across 84 continuous minutes of music recorded by the London Contemporary Orchestra, the score moves from the immensity of the mountain – sacred to the Nepali people across centuries – to the interior lives of the figures at the center of the story. Other notable recent film credits include Jon Blåhed’s Raptures, Margreth Olin’s Songs of Earth, Amazon Studios’ All the Old Knives, Hulu’s I Am Greta, A24’s My Mercury, HBO’s Pray, Obey, Kill and Universal’s Explorer.

Over the course of her career Karijord has been awarded the Guldbagge Award in Sweden for Best Original Score for Raptures, the Crystal Pine at the International Sound and Film Music Festival as well as the NaturVision Film Music Award for her score to Songs of Earth, and an ASCAP Screen Music Award for All the Old Knives. Her scores have also brought nominations for both Cinema Eye Honors and the IDA Documentary Awards for Songs of Earth, and the Jussi Awards in Finland and HARPA Award for Raptures.

In parallel with her scoring career, Karijord has released seven solo albums and built a rich collaborative practice. Notable recent projects include Archives of Longing with Andrew Yee of the Attacca Quartet and Complete Mountain Almanac, co-created with visual artist Jessica Dessner and musicians Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National.  Her seventh album, The Bell Tower (released April 25th, 2025 on Bella Union), continues her exploration of the human voice as an instrument. The album, composed using a self-built instrument made from hundreds of vocal samples, features the Grammy-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth and pushes the sonic boundaries between the organic and the synthetic.

Karijord trained at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Institute and brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her work, drawing on experience as an actor, playwright, studio technician, and performer. She composes for a wide range of musical constellations—from orchestras and vocal ensembles to minimal electroacoustic setups—and often chooses projects with clear humanistic or political resonance.