Christoph Zirngibl

Christoph Zirngibl is a German film composer, songwriter and musician. After graduating from high school and two years of military service as a musician, he studied “Composition for Film and TV” at the acclaimed University for Music and Theatre in Munich under professors Andreas Weidinger and Enjott Schneider, followed by master classes in Los Angeles and Malaga run by Jack Smalley and Michael Giacchino.

He composed his first score for a short film in 2004. One year later he experienced another first: being fired from a project, the first feature film he worked on. He wouldn’t let this put him off, so that by now he has composed the music for around 80 feature films, TV movies and short films in various musical styles:
- e.g. the big orchestral score for the German hit feature “The VeXXer” (Neues vom WiXXer),
- a score for rock band for the box office hit “Man Cave” (Männerhort),
- electronic music for the critically acclaimed eight-part mini-series “The Trace” (Neben der Spur) and for the feature “Luna” and
- thriller music for TV events like “Angst” or “Der Anfang von Etwas”, where he skillfully combined orchestral and synthetic elements.

In 2021 his music for the essay movie “Finis Terrae” was nominated at the European Filmmusic Awards (Camille Awards) as well as at the German Filmmusic Awards. He was honored with a “German Emmy” (Preis der Deutschen Fernsehakademie) for his score for “Amnesie” in 2016 and his music for “King Grandpa” was awarded a Hollywood Music in Media Award in 2017.

His recent works include the title song and a fun action score for the animated series “The Muscleteers”, an electronic thriller score for “Helen Dorn - Tödliches Vermächtnis” and an elaborate orchestral score for the animated feature “Mia and me - The Hero of Centopia”.