Marcel Vaid (born 1967) is a Swiss-German musician and composer of music for film and theatre.
Marcel Vaid is together with his brother Ravi Vaid also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz.He has collaborated with artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Toshinori Kondo, Kate Havnevik, Mauro Pawlowski, Rodrigo González, Norbert Möslang, Marianne Schroeder, Lauren Newton and Jojo Mayer.
In film Marcel Vaid has worked with director Léa Pool, Eliza Kubarska, Carmen Jaquier, Anja Kofmel [de], Fredi Murer, Esen Işık [de], Marcus Vetter, Milo Rau, Grzegorz Zgliński [pl], Oliver Paulus, Tommaso Landucci or oscar-nominated Timo von Gunten.
He has received the Swiss Film Prize Quartz four times (Zara 2009, Goodnight Nobody 2011, When the sun fell 2016 and Chris the Swiss 2019), the Prix Fondation Suisa (Tandoori Love 2009), the prize for Best Film Score at the Filmfstivals in Angers (Joshua 2003) and Valencia (Where is Max 2009).
Marcel Vaid is a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts,[2] and gives various master classes.