Freya Berkhout is a multi-award winning composer, vocalist, writer and creative technologist based in Los Angeles.
Her passion is to manifest profound, emotional, thought-provoking experiences, creating sonic worlds that span the dark and enigmatic to the delicate, exquisite and transcendental. She revels in bold, celebratory intersectional feminist and queer narratives and perspectives.
Freya’s first professional music endeavour was experimental pop duo kyü with Alyx Dennison. kyü released two albums to critical acclaim, winning a slew of awards, including Sydney University Band Competition, the Hopetoun/Studios 301 Homebake Incentive and the prestigious Qantas Spirit of Youth Award for Music in 2010.
Her film scores have screened at festivals around the globe, including Cannes, Warsaw, Tribeca and BFI London Film Festivals. Freya is a graduate of Sydney University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she won the Kenneth B. Myer Award for Exceptional Talent upon graduation. Freya completed a Masters in Computational Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018, receiving the Humanitarian Scholarship. She has been awarded funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, and holds an Exceptional Talent Artist Visa in the UK. Freya was nominated for her first Screen Music Award in 2019 for her work on short film ‘Shiloh’ (dir. Vanessa Gazy).
In 2021, Freya’s debut feature film, queer magic realist drama The Greenhouse (dir. Thomas Wilson-White) premiered at Mardi Gras Festival, screening around the globe at BFI Flare and Frameline. The Greenhouse OST was released worldwide in April, garnering Freya a Screen Music Award nomination for Best Soundtrack Album. Freya won the 2021 APRA Professional Development Award for Film and Television, as well as scoring Laura Nagy’s Rose d’Or winning Audible podcast Pillow Talk, releasing the Pillow Talk Original Podcast Soundtrack.
Recently, Freya has scored a host of interactive installation works with Esem Projects and Junior Major at The Australian Museum, The Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Living Museum.
Freya released her debut solo album Fruit in July 2023.
She is represented by WE ARE GOLDEN.