BIOGRAPHY

2021 Culture Award by the Aargauer Kuratorium

2017 Nomination „Jerry Goldsmith Award” (Màlaga, Spain)

2013 Nomination GEMA’s „Musikautorenpreis”

2011 Award by the Aargauer Kuratorium for artistic accomplishments

2011 Scholarship Fondation Suisa

2011 Award UBS Kulturstiftung (UBS Culture Foundation)

2007 Selected by the „Federation of Film & Audiovisual Composers of Europe” as „European Composer 2008 for Switzerland”

2007 Culture Award by the Aargauer Kuratorium

2006 Invitation as one of twelve composers selected through an international open call for tender to participate the renowned ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop (Los Angeles)

2002 Invitation as one of four composers selected through an international open call for tender to participate the renowned „Mentorship Program” of the SCL in Los Angeles (members at the time: J. Goldsmith, E. Bernstein, D. Raskin a. o.)

2001 Richard Levi Award, Boston

2000 Berklee Achievement Scholarship

1999-2001 „Deans List”

1999 Award of the „Stiftung für Darstellende Künste” (foundation for performing arts), Switzerland

1999 Berklee “Best” Scholarship

1997 Second Prize at the International Competition in Kirkade, Netherlands (piano part in the „Orchestra di Fiati della Svizzera Italiana”)

Awarded Films

AURORA’S SUNRISE by Inna Sahakyan, winner of ‚Grand Prix de Genève‘, ‚Asia Pacific Screen Award‘ for ‚best Animated Film‘, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival for best Coproduction, 10 more int. Awards, nominations at many film festivals (Annecy, Filmfest Hamburg, Doclisboa International Film Festival, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival and many others
WIR HABEN EINEN DEAL (We’ve Got a Deal), directed by F. Korn, Best Film, Bernd Burgermeister Award, Robert Geisendörfer Award, Rheingold Publikumspreis 2023 des Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen!, Nomination Adolph Grimme Award, Nomination Jupiter Award
DER WEG NACH PADULIM (Path to Padulim), written and directed by Annette Friedmann, Premiere at the International Hof Film Festival, nominations for best debut film, production design and costume design
TATORT ‒ DIE GESCHICHTE VOM BÖSEN FRIEDRICH (Crime Scene ‒ The Story of Wicked Friedrich) directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, HR, Best Actor Nicholas Ofczarek German TV Academy
BELLA BLOCK ‒ VORSEHUNG (Bella Block ‒ Providence) written and directed by Max Färberböck, German Thriller Award, in both categories Jury and Audience Award, Best Film at Norddeutsche Filmtage Lübeck, nomination for Adolph Grimme Award
FRÜHLING IM HERBST (Spring Fever in Autumn) written and directed by Petra Volpe, Best Film at the Baden Baden Film Festival, Nomination Prix Europa
DIE ENTDECKUNG DER CURRYWURST / PRISONER OF LOVE written and directed by Ulla Wagner, Tag/Traum Filmproduktion, First Prize for Barbara Sukowa ‘Best Actress’ at the Montreal World Film Festival, where the film was running in the international competition, Audience Award at the 13th German Festival in Paris
JARGO written and directed by Maria Solrun, Ö-Filme und X Filme, premiere at the 2004 Berlinale Film Festival Awarded ‘Best Film’ and with the ‘Audience Award’ at the Sarajevo Film Festival

2023 Member of the European Film Academy

2020-2022 Board Member of the German Film Academy

2014 Member of the Academy of German Music Authors

2013 Board Member of the German Film Composers Union (DEFKOM)

2009 Member of the German Film Academy

2004-2008 Associate Professor for film scoring at the Film University Babelsberg, Konrad Wolf

2007 Berlinale Talent

2006 Invitation as one of 12 composers selected for the international ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, Los Angeles

2002 Invitation as one of four composers selected for the international ‘Mentorship Program’ of the “Society of Composers and Lyricists”, Los Angeles (Members at the time: J. Goldsmith, D. Raksin, E. Bernstein etc.), which consists of working with leading composers such as Alf Clausen (“The Simpsons”), Jay Chattaway (“Star Trek”), Steve Bramson (“JAG”) and Dan Foliart (“7th Heaven”).

1999-2001 Berklee College of Music, Boston, degree in double major film scoring and classical composition, ‘summa cum laude’. Graduation in two instead of the usual five years.

1993-1999 Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, diploma, equivalent to master of music in piano performance, “magna cum laude”. Piano class of Nora Doallo, composition class of Paul Glass.

1995-1999 Masterclasses with H. Francesch and B. Blocher

1992-1993 Jazz School Basel and Sindelfingen

1991 Associates Degree

Fluent in German, Italian, English and French

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Christine Aufderhaar is an acclaimed German composer based in Berlin and at times in Los Angeles. Over the course of over 20 years, she has written the music for over 50 films, many of them have been honored with awards, including Aurora’s Sunrise by Inna Sahakyan, which won 20 international prizes.

Besides film music Christine writes also concert music, which has been performed in the US, Russia, Switzerland and Germany, recently in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonie.

Christine served as a board member of the German Film Academy and is a longtime board member of the German Film Composers Union. She was Associate Professor at the ‘Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen’ in Babelsberg (Berlin) but after attending the Berlinale Talent Campus and the ASCAP filmscoring workshop she left her position in order to work exclusively as a composer.

Christine regularly collaborates with members of the ‘Berliner Philharmoniker’ and with numerous other orchestras. She holds degrees from the Conservatory Lugano in classical piano performance and the Berklee College of Music, Boston, where she graduated in half the usual time in film scoring and classical composition receiving summa cum laude, various scholarships and the Richard Levy Award.

Her background gives her the freedom to leave the world of classical and jazz harmony behind and create her own language, a wide range from intimate melodies, subtle electronic soundscapes to powerful orchestral scores. Her aim is to find a characteristic sound for each project.

Over the years Christine was honored with multiple Awards and was named by the ‘Federation of Film & Audiovisual Composers of Europe’ as ‚European Composer 2008 for Switzerland’. She served numerous times as a jury member of int. Film Music Awards and was last year invited to be one of the ‚Spot the Composer‘ at the Cannes Filmfestival.

Christine is fluent in Italian, French, English and German.