Marie Gabrielle Blix
Marie Gabrielle Blix is a Mexican composer with a deep passion for storytelling through music. A cum-laude graduate of the Berklee College of Music, she earned degrees in Film Scoring and Composition,with a minor in Conducting. Her work spans film, dance, and the concert stage, where she blendsdiverse genres and styles with contemporary and unconventional expressive resources.
Her symphonic debut, Terra Fungorum, was premiered by the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata (OJUEM) under the baton of Mark Kadin at the world-renowned Sala Nezahualcóyotl. Since then, the work has been taken up by some of Mexico’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM), under maestro Roberto Beltrán-Zavala—again at Sala Neza—and the Filarmónica de Querétaro, conducted by Mark Kadin, further cementing its place in the contemporary symphonic repertoire. Her music has also been performed by renowned ensembles Cuarteto Arcano, Sexteto Místico, Sound Icon and MIVOS Quartet, and featured at notable venues such as the Teatro Metropolitano in Querétaro and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City.
Marie’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Vuk Kulenovic Memorial Prize in 2020 from Berklee’s Composition Department, awarded to the top composition students of the year. In 2022, she was selected for the Cátedra Extraordinaria Arturo Márquez de Composición Musical, a prestigious and highly selective one-year program under the mentorship of Grammy-winning and internationally acclaimed Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.
In film, Marie has scored over a dozen independent short films presented at international festivals, including award-winning short films La Novia de Oro and Mango City. She has served as composer assistant at DAD Music Productions and with composer Juan Carlos Enriquez on high-profile projects such as the Disney+ series Mamá Cake and the feature films Es Por Su Bien, ¿Quieres Ser Mi... Novia?, and Cocina Con-fusión.
Marie has also contributed as a pianist, vocalist, orchestrator, arranger, transcriber, and copyist for a wide range of artists, ensembles, and organizations. Her collaborations include work with Netflix Mexico and Candela Entertainment on promotional events for the series One Piece and Queen Charlotte. She recently founded SUL. Music Service, the company under which these collaborations are developed.
Her passion for interdisciplinary work is reflected in DONUM, a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with choreographer Yazmín Barragán and dancers from the Compañía Nacional de Danza de México.
In the academic field, she has six years of teaching experience and is certified by the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) as a Master Tutor, Level III. She currently teaches Orchestration at the Mexican Film Scoring School (EMMC), actively contributing to the training of new generations of film composers.
