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<\/a>Having been raised under piano keys and those funny flashing knobs on music sampling machines and consoles; trained by a folk music production household at the foot of the Austrian alps to the avant-garde, contemporary and temporary auditory experiences in the middle of Vienna, he creates orchestral soundtracks, sweeping melodies and complementary atmospheres for films and video games.<\/p>\nBorn in 1993 the young Austrian music for games and film always fascinated him. He set the score for various scenes at the Vienna Film Music Prize<\/strong> and finished runner up<\/a> two times in a row (2011\/12). \u00a0He achieved major step up in his musical abilities by attending the Hollywood Music Workshop<\/strong>\u00a0in Klosterneuburg from 2008 to 2013. This also gave him the opportunity to work with established film composers like Don Williams, Bruce Broughten or Conrad Pope and accommodate himself with the film music business.<\/p>\n After several international music productions in collaborationship with Daniel Wehr for major American TV Channels, Sony\u00a0Resistance: Burning Skies<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Orchestration\/MIDI-Preperation) or the film\u00a0The Return of Elias Urquijo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Orchestration) his compositions for concert also are performed in cities all over the globe (London, Vienna, Auckland etc.). He scored plenty of films in Austria, Germany, UK and US of aspiring directors and is also writing music for the international music library EON Sounds Productions<\/a><\/strong>, RavenRed<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Klanglobby\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>and the sound library Vienna Symphonic Library<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or IK Multimedia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2014 he graduated in composition at the\u00a0private conservatory Vienna\u00a0<\/strong>under prof. Christian Minkowitsch and also has been studying piano under prof. Natasa Velkjovic at the university of music and performing arts Vienna<\/strong>\u00a0since 2011. From 2014 he is now a master student under prof. Ulrich Reuter and Karim Sebastian Elias at the film university Babelsberg Konrad Wolf<\/strong>\u00a0based near Berlin and also taken an exchange term at the Royal College of Music<\/strong>, London, in 2015.<\/p>\n He is looking forward to intresting projects and considerable cooperations. Besides his mockup-productions, arrangement-works and orchestrations for example the school orchestras in Auckland, New Zealand, he works also for the Austrian company Stella-Musica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the years 2006\/2008\/2010\/2012 achieved the 1. Prize nationalwide in the category \u201cPiano solo”\u009d, including several awards for his own compositions (a.o. exceptional prize of the (“\u00d6sterreichischen Musikrat”)<\/p>\n 2008: 3rd place of the Big Band composition prize “Jugend komponiert”, for the composition “Feetless”.<\/p>\n (Vienna Filmmusic Prize 2011\/2012), always the 2nd Prize for the scoring of “Der Atem des Himmels” and “Die Hexe Lilly Reise nach Mandolin”<\/p>\n 2010: “Tage der neuen Musik” (days of contemporary music) in Krems, 1st Prize for the composition and performance oft he piece “Saxo Moods”<\/p>\n “ZEITKlang” composition prize “Neue Musi”, 2nd award for the piece “Deep Light” for marching band.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [metaslider id=1058]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having been raised under piano keys and those funny flashing knobs on music sampling machines and consoles; trained by a folk music production household at the foot of the Austrian alps to the avant-garde, contemporary and temporary auditory experiences in the middle of Vienna, he creates orchestral soundtracks, sweeping melodies and complementary atmospheres for films […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","mb-0"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markus-zierhofer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Awards<\/h2>\n
Prima la musica<\/h3>\n
Jugend komponiert<\/h3>\n
Wiener Filmmusikpreis 2011\/2012<\/h3>\n
Tage der neuen Musik<\/h3>\n
Neue Musi<\/h3>\n
Services<\/h2>\n
High Quality Music for Games, Films, TV, Trailers, Commercials & Documentaries<\/h3>\n
Authentic Creation of Mockups & Library Music Productions<\/h3>\n
Commissioned Works for Solo Instruments, Ensembles & Orchestras<\/h3>\n
Orchestration & Arrangements for the Concert Hall<\/h3>\n
Music Preparation for Recording Sessions<\/h3>\n