Michael Edwards is an award-winning composer and pianist, whose work spans film, television, theatre, live concert performance, and recordings.

He was recently nominated for best original music at Cannes Lions 2018, and 2 years running at the Music and Sound Awards 2018 and Music and Sound Awards 2017. He won best score at the Los Angeles Cinefest 2016 for his orchestral score to the award-winning film The Clockmaker's Dream (Cashell Horgan, Jared Harris). The film has since won 11 awards at international film festivals and was recently screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2016 his composition work earned him a nomination for the Deutsche Filmmusikpreis 2016

Michael is currently working with the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin. The newly commissioned composition has recently been recorded in the Grosser Saal in the Konzerthaus. The advertising campaign #klangberlins (Sound of Berlin) recently won ADC/Peaks Best YouTube Video of the Year 2017 2017 at Art Directors Club Deutschland, as well as the Deutsche Prize for Online Communication 2017 and the Golden Award of Montreux 2017.

In early 2016, Michael composed music for the 3 part documentary 1916: The Irish Rebellion (narrated by Liam Neeson). Michael performed his music live on piano with the RTE Concert Orchestra at the premiere screening at the Concert Hall in Dublin 16.03.16 for the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

Michael also composes music to selected short films, recently winning Best Music at the GSFF New Jersey 2017 for the score to the film Narcan featuring Malachy McCourt (Angelas Ashes).

Michael has composed and produced music for several theatre productions. His original score to the award-winning show Asyl Monologe recently had its 300th show at the Heimathafen in Berlin.

A native of Australia, he has composed music for top TV shows including Water Rats, and Murder Call. He wrote the National News Theme for Channel 7â€™s prime time current affairs show Today Tonight. He also worked on many commercial recordings - writing, programming and arranging for various Australian and international acts.

His first feature film work was his contribution to Lisa Gerrard's (Golden Globe, Gladiator) score for the Oscar-nominated film Whale Rider (2002). He went on to collaborate with Lisa on several films including Layer Cake (2004) (Daniel Craig) and Ichi (2008) (Fumihiku Sori) and 2 albums (Silver Tree, Black Opal) and three world tours. The hit Spaceweaver features in the film Secret Defence.

In 2003 Michael moved to London and set up a studio in Soho, and composed extensively for British television, Storyville, BBC documentaries and ITV dramas. Highlights include Before The Flood, Town and Country and Mandy's Choice.

In London Michael also worked with labels Ministry of Sound and HedKandi, producing and remixing hits for Moloko, and Swedish group Stonebridgeâ€™s UK Top 10 hit Put em High, co-writing the hit single Perfect Stranger sung by Atef, runner up of France's The Voice in 2012.

While living in London he often traveled to Hollywood for extended periods collaborating most notably with composer Patrick Cassidy (Hannibal). He also composed music for Kill the Irishman (2011), Fuga Per La Liberta (2008) and The Front Line (2006), and the ASCAP award-nominated score for Calvary (2014). Michael's piano music closes the last 3 minutes of the film, hauntingly completing the story alone without dialogue. In LA, Michael also worked with Jeff Most (The Crow) composing for his film The Tomb (2009).

As a performer, Michael has performed at many renowned concert halls around the world including the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall, Albert Hall, Barbican, Berlin Philharmonie. He toured extensively with Dead Can Dance, Skye (Morcheeba), and Darren Hayes (Savage Garden).

For more information on Michael Edwards visit his website christiantschuggnall.com

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