BIOGRAPHY

Birk Garlef Drude grew up in various small villages in Germany and stayed there until he graduated from school.
Very early he became interested in making films and composing music and after getting his hands on some decent software the latter became a side hobby.
After school Birk moved to Carlisle in England to study Film & Television Production at the University of Cumbria. It was here that he decided to turn his hobby into something more serious and started to compose soundtracks for various small film projects he was involved in.

Throughout the years Birk worked on a variety of projects as a camera operator and composer, as well as a location marshal on big film productions shooting in the Lake District area.
His experimental short film 'His Last Minutes' was screened at the Keswick Film Festival 2018 and won at the Carlisle Film Fling festival in 2019.
His latest work as cinematographer and composer was the independent short film 'Searching For Evil' in 2019 and his latest score was composed for the 2021 short film 'What's Left Unsaid'.

Between doing freelancing work and pursuing his own musical career, Birk has also worked as an AV Technician for the University of Cumbria and as a videographer for VetPartners, where he travelled around the UK as a one man camera crew to plan, shoot, edit and deliver a variety of marketing videos.

In 2022 Birk shifted his focus on creating Nordic Folk music, with the first project being the album 'Ragnarok'.
Since then, he has dedicated most of his free time to exploring the musical landscapes of Norse mythology and Nordic Folk.