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songwriter stuff and big band music. Christoph’s personal philosophy implies that composing music demands an experience in performing. The origin of all music is emotion, and its authenticitymakes the difference

Awards and Nominations

Jerry Goldsmith Award 2007 of the International Filmmusic Congres of Ubeda, Spain in the cathegories „best original Score for a short length production“ (for Lethe) and „best composer“

German-Filmmusic-Newcomer-Award 2006 of the Franz-Grothe foundation

Regional Emmy „Best Historical Documentary 2006“ for IPTV’s „Iowa’s World War II Stories“

Iowa Motion Picture Association Award 2006 für „Iowa’s World War II Stories“

Nominated for the „New Sound in European Film“-Award 2005

Born in Regensburg, Bavaria in 1980, Christoph Zirngibl got in touch with music at a very young age,taking drum and piano lessons. Always being a passionate performer, Christoph soon developed another musical interest: His compositional talent was already discovered and rewarded during his high school years. After his graduation in 2000, he joined the German Army Band “Heeresmusikkorps 4” for the duration of two years. His dream of composing film music started to take shape, when Christoph was accepted at the highly acclaimed University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, to study “Scoring for Film and Television” under famous German composer Prof. Dr. Enjott Schneider in October 2003. Since then, Christoph has been writing loads of scores and orchestrations for various short,- tv- and feature films, some of them in collaboration with well known German composers Andreas Weidinger and Helmut Zerlett.

Working on many orchestral scores lately, Christoph’s musical skills embrace a diversity of styles: As a performer, he is used to a wide range of genres, from country and pop over any kind of rock, jazz, blues,

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