Biography

Christian Heschl is an award-winning film & TV composer located in Vienna. His diverse repertoire ranges from live-recorded epic full orchestral scores to pure production music or small intimate ensembles. To date, he has composed music for numerous projects featured on international networks such as National Geographic, Disney+, AppleTV+, DiscoveryChannel, PBS, AmazonPrime, Sony, NBC/SyFy, ZDF, and ORF
His most recent works include the AppleTV+ Series “Liaison” (2023), starring Eva Green & Vincent Cassel, on which he served as score producer for Ivor-Novello nominated composer Walter Mair. In 2022 Christian also composed the soundtrack to “Super Reefs – A Pristine Seas Film” produced by the National Geographic Society, which premiers on Disney+ in 2023.

Christian is best known for scoring the highly acclaimed NBC/SyFy documentary “Like Hell I Won’t”, telling the captivating story of comic artist legend “Todd McFarlane” creator of Spider-Man, Venom and Spawn. Other recent works include the PBS/TerraMater Film-epos “The Hippo King” directed by EMMY nominee Will Steenkamp (BBC Planet Earth II, Hostile Planet, Primates). For other natural history films such as the short-films “Okavango” & “Endless Beauty” from NatGeo Explorer Chris Schmid, Christians music was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.

Christian is working with a strong network of established composers, musicians, orchestrators & studios around the globe with whom he regularly collaborates for the production of film scores. In 2022, he opened his own state-of-the-art production studio in the very heart of Vienna.

As a frequent collaborator of Telly Award-winning composer Walter Mair, he has worked for him on numerous projects such as the AppleTV+ original series “Liaison”, the Amazon Prime Original “Rooney” (2021), and “Dettori” (2021) directed by Emmy and Triple BAFTA winning director Anthony Wonke, by providing additional music, arrangements or serving as score programmer.

In between his projects, Christian also freelances for various music production companies, including Hans Zimmer’s Emmy nominated “Bleeding Fingers Music”. He has scored commercials for many top brands such as VodafoneUK, SonyUK, REMAX Europe, British Heart Foundation, ÖBB, EGGER Group, Austrian Tourism Board, Alvorada Coffee and the Tyrol Insurance Group.

Christian is a member of both the Creative Club Austria and the Austrian Film Academy (Österreichischer Filmpreis).

Awards

2019 New York Film Festival

Best Original Score

OKAVANGO (June Edition)

2019 New York Film Festival

Annual Nominee - Best Original Score

OKAVANGO

2019 Festigious International Film Festival

Best Original Score

OKAVANGO (June Edition)

2019 Festigious International Film Festival

Annual Nominee - Best Original Score

OKAVANGO

2019 Los Angeles Film Awards

Honorable Mention

OKAVANGO (June Edition)

2019 LA Short Awards

Best Original Score

Jamil

2018 Los Angeles Film Awards

Honorable Mention Best Original Score

The Frozen Warriors

2018 LA Short Awards

Best Original Score

The Frozen Warriors

2018 CineFest LA

Best Original Score

The Frozen Warriors

2017 Global Film Festival Awards LA

Best Original Score

Iceland - A Breath of Nature

Press & Recommen­dations

„The score for OKAVANGO is the work of composer Christian Heschl, and it is a score that I will here and now recommend that you seek out and add to your collection.“

JOHN MANSELL(Filmmusic Journalist, Writer for The International Filmmusic Critics Assosiation), 2019

„Whether „National Geographic“ animal film or Marvel documentary: Christian Heschl is just starting a promising career as a film composer.“

Die Presse, 2019

„Best Film Score“ at the Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles. For his current work „The Frozen Warriors“ he holds four awards so far.“

Kurier, 2018