Steffen Kaltschmid

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Steffen Kaltschmid (born November 7, 1974 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German composer .

Life

Steffen Kaltschmid received lessons at the local music school from 1988 to 1994 during his school days at the Margarete-Steiff-Gymnasium in Giengen . This included training in the subjects of drums, piano, composition, arrangement, harmony and ear training . In the in-house small and big band , as well as in other bands, he gained his first experience and wrote his first arrangements and compositions. After finishing school, he completed training as a sound assistant at the SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in 1995.

In the same year, Kaltschmidt began studying at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich (now the University of Music and Theater ) in Munich , which he graduated in 2000. In 1997 and 1998 he was the drummer of the Bavarian Youth Jazz Orchestra . Since 2001 he has received regular lessons in composition and orchestration from Vladimir Genin . He took further piano lessons from 2003 to 2004 with Christoph Amtmann . Steffen Kaltschmid has been a freelance film composer since 1999 and has composed music for over 100 productions to date (2015).

For the music for the documentary Wildes Karelien - Land of Brown Bears and Whooper Swans , Steffen Kaltschmid was nominated in 2015 in the category “Best Music” at the International Nature Film Festival Green Screen .

Filmography (selection)

Discography

  • 2014: The Pilgrim (Soundtrack)

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