Biography
Maya Shenfeld is a composer based in Berlin. Born in Jerusalem, she studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Berlin University of the Arts, earning an M.A. in classical guitar and contemporary music composition.
She has composed scores for films and shorts including the Netflix documentary Cover-Up (2025), directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, as well as The Flagmakers (2022) and Piazza Futura (Postcard from the Future) (2022). Shenfeld released the albums In Free Fall (2022) and Under the Sun (2024) on Thrill Jockey Records. Her score for Cover-Up was nominated for Best Original Music Score at the Cinema Eye Honors.
