# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorit-chrysler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:09.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorit-chrysler"
name: "Dorit Chrysler"
slug: "dorit-chrysler"
description: "Dorit Chrysler, born Dorit Kreisler, is an Austrian-born composer, thereminist and sound artist. She has written music for films, TV and video art featured in museum collections such as the Guggenheim and MoMA. Chrysler co-founded the New York Theremin Society and developed a curriculum for Learning How To Play The Theremin when establishing the first international school of theremin \"KidCoolThereminSchool\". She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and is featured on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary Going Clear. Chrysler has written the soundtrack for \"M - A City Hunts a Murderer\" by David Schalko and is the founder of \"Dame Electric Festival.\" She has curated Theremin100, a compilation featuring 50 international Theremin Artists to commemorate the Centennial of the Theremin in 2020. Her works have been commissioned for MoMA, Steirische Herbst, the Venice Biennale etc. Promoting the use of theremin in contemporary music styles, she has collaborated with Trentemøller, Lene Lovich, Cluster, Philippe Quesne, Carsten Nicolai, Elliott Sharp, Jesper Just and many more. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Palais Tokyo, the Louisiana Museum, Coachella, Roskilde Festival, Konzerthaus in Vienna and CBGB."
tagline: "Austrian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorit_chrysler_skc_5.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.78
  momentum:             16.30952380952381
  historical:           8.340173333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Dorit-Chrysler-39546158762"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2985343/"
    handle:    "nm2985343"
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    title: "دوريت كريسلير"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit_Chrysler"
    title: "Dorit Chrysler"
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    title: "Dorit Chrysler"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit_Chrysler"
    title: "Dorit Chrysler"
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    title: "Dorit Chrysler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Dorit Chrysler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump