Christian Biegai
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Christian Biegai began his venture into the world of music at the age of 6 when he first heard the soundtrack of Superman. After repeatedly listening to his tape, he was inspired to take up the violin. He played violin for 9 years in various youth orchestras in Germany, before beginning his training in classical saxophone at the age of 15. This led him to choose a career in music. He studied at the Berlin Hochschule der Kuenste in 1995 followed by postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London. During that time, his interest in film music composition grew, and he began writing film scores for students at the London International Film School. The study of symphonic orchestration and electro-acoustic composition followed with a Masters degree in Music at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA.
He has written film scores for Pigeons (1998), Nightshades (1998), Krieger (2000), Bad City (2001), and Little Gang's Production of Whistle (2002), directed by Duncan Jones, which was premiered at the Lupo Fright Film Festival 2002 in London and was shown at various festivals around the world including several broadcasts on Film Four. In 2004, he refined his audio-post production skills under the leadership of Frank Verderosa at Planet V, New York. Working with digital artist and multimedia producer Helena Bulaja over the last two years generated an inspired partnership. Results of this include composing and recording the score for the fairytale Regoch (2003), and sound design for Yagor (2005), which can be heard on the upcoming DVD release of Croatian Tales of Long Ago. Christian composed the score for director Marc Meyer’s film Sunday, in August, which was broadcast on France 3, and won the Minister of Art Promotion Prize at the Film Festival in Dresden in 2005. In his latest project, he teamed up with New York-based director Matthew Timms, sound designing and scoring the film How I know you.
As a saxophone player, Christian has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, clair-obscur saxophone quartet, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the artist collective Edison Woods amongst others. He performed with Michael Nyman at the Berlin Film Festival 2000 where he premiered the film music for Fernand Leger's Ballete Mechanique (1924). In 2005 he recorded the score for 3:20, written for solo saxophone by Gerald Busby, best known for his soundtrack of Robert Altman's Three Women. After the collaboration, Gerald dedicated Speak for Christian, that he premiered in Carnegie Hall. In 2006, he performed with Antony and the Johnsons on their European Tour "Turning" , in collaboration with Charles Atlas.
In 2006, Christian moved to Wellington, New Zealand, where he now works as a freelance musician, copyist, sound designer and film music composer. He can be also found in New York, London, Berlin or Zagreb.
