Müller Prize for film music goes to artist

Michael Künstle completed his studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in jazz and composition with an MA specializing in media composition. He attended additional studies with film composer and orchestrator David Angel (John Williams) and film composer Henning Lohner (Hans Zimmer) as well as master classes with film composer Alexandre Desplat and jazz composer Maria Schneider. While still a student, he won the Golden Eye Award for Best Film Music at the 1st International Film Music Competition of the Zurich Film Festival.

The Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Film Music has been awarded every two years since 1992. In 2020, the award ceremony was postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The prize, which is organized by Südwestrundfunk, is sponsored by the Rolf-Hans Müller Foundation Baden-Baden and MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg. Rolf-Hans Müller was closely associated with the former SWF (now SWR) as a conductor, composer and arranger for many years.