is a Los Angeles based film composer and violinist, and is currently a Composer and Music Editor at Konsonant Music.

 

Cassiel has experience writing for film, TV, animation, and video games. Thanks to her background as a classical violinist, she likes to place a heavy emphasis on thematic string writing and violin textures in the bulk of her work. Some recent projects include Bottled Up, which premiered at Flicker's Rhode Island Film Festival, winning Best Comedy Feature, The Blind Couple From Mali, which she co-scored with Gil Talmi and screened at FIPADOC and VIFF, andTender Thoughts, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. 

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A classically trained violinist, Cassiel began playing at the age of four and attended the Colburn School of Performing Arts prior to her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music with Blair Milton. Here, she was a selected member of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra's Asia Tour and found a love for performing in the pit orchestras of musical theatre shows, including She Loves Me, Bright Star, and Legally Blonde, to name a few.  Cassiel's favorite recent gigs include a solo in an episode of Dexter, Resurrection, a performance on Good Morning America, and a cameo in the music video for the hit AJR song The Good Part, . She holds a Professional Certificate in Composing and Orchestrating for TV and Film from Berklee College of Music and recently finished her Master's degree at New York University, where she studied composition with Jamie Lawrence, Ariel Marx, and John Kaefer. Cassiel was chosen as a 2022-2023 mentee in the competitive Society of Composers and Lyricists' New York Mentorship Program and is an active member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.​