Martin Todsharow

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Martin Todsharow (born 6 September 1967) is a German composer, producer, and lecturer on music, since 2004 a professor at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.

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He has won the German Film Critics' Best Music Award and the German Music Authors' Prize for Film Music Composition.

Early life

Born in Berlin, from 1989 to 1994 Todsharow was a student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where his degree was in piano, counterpoint, and composition. [1]

Career

Since 1991 Todsharow has composed for theatre. In 1993 he was awarded a foreign scholarship of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program to study in Britain. From 1994 to 1996 he was an instrumentalist in both serious and pop music. Since 1997 he has worked as a professional film composer, a producer, a music supervisor, and a lecturer at film academies . In 2004 he was elected to a chair at the Konrad Wolf Film University of in Potsdam-Babelsberg. [1] [2]

In 2013 he won the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik Best Music Award for Sources of Life (Quellen des Lebens). [3] In 2014 he received the German Music Authors' Prize for Film Music Composition, in a ceremony on 8 May 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Berlin. [4]

Work as film composer

Notes

  1. 1 2 todsharow.com
  2. Film-Dienst, Vol. 60, Issues 8-13 (2007), p. 283
  3. PREIS DER DEUTSCHEN FILMKRITIK 2013 dated 10 February 2014 at vdfk.de, accessed 1 May 2019
  4. Norbert Sievers, Patrick S. Föhl, Tobias J. Knoblich, Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2015/16: Transformatorische Kulturpolitik (Transcript Verlag, 2016), p. 451

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