Rickie Lee Kroell is a composer based in Berlin, Germany. In her early career she started out as a songwriter and vocalist, with her jazz-pop album “Otherwise” debuting in 2011 with tours following throughout Germany. Rickie Lee trained in classical composition at Berklee College of Music to then shift to writing for picture. After graduating Berklee in 2014, she attended the acclaimed Screen Scoring Master’s program at University of Southern California and continued to work as a freelance composer and composer’s assistant in Los Angeles until her return to Europe in late 2018.

For over a decade now she has been collaborating with filmmakers, choreographers, artists and art directors on various international projects. Her body of work consists of orchestral and electronic scores for film, television and concert, vocal arrangements and avant-garde ballet music. Rickie Lee is also active in songwriting and vocal work both for commissions and her own artist project (e.g. her German electronic- indie concept EP “Hauptsache was mit Deichkind” in 2022, recognising the artistry of German lyrics and paying homage to the versatility of the great lyrical work by the bands Deichkind and Bilderbuch).

Rickie Lee acts as a jury member for the Deutscher Filmmusikpreis (German Film Music Award) and currently is a resident at renowned Riverside Studios in Berlin- Kreuzberg.