Composer | Arranger | Songwriter
WORK HIGHLIGHTS
NEUMATT - first Swiss TV series sold to Netflix worldwide
HORS SAISON - 2.5 million viewers on French National TV
ETSY’S 2024 BIG GAME COMMERCIAL - official super bowl ad
SAMSUNG x OLYMPICS 2020 - official ad for the olympics in Tokyo
GOLDEN EYE Award 2012 winner Michael Künstle is known for his genre-bending music and joy in collaborative work. He is interested in finding the most creative solution for a given project and determined to push the possibilities of musical storytelling forward.
Together with his collaborator Matteo Pagamici, they make up a dazzingly skilled team creating evocative scores across all genres of film, TV and advertising.
Recent highlights include the recording session for his solo debut album at Abbey Road Studio 1 with 92 musicians featuring an arrangement of Ed Sheeran’s “Take Me Back To London” (coming soon).
Sisi & I
Directed by: Frauke Finsterwalder
Historical drama starring Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall). Matteo and Michael arranged and produced the end credits song.
Hors Saison
Directed by: Pierre Monnard
Gaumont Films co-produced French crime series accumulated up to 2,5 million viewers per episode. Starring César Awards winner Marina Hands (Lady Chatterley) and Jean-Hugues Anglade (The Sopranos).
Neumatt
Directed by: Sabine Boss, Pierre Monnard
The first Swiss series sold to Netflix worldwide. Based on an idea of Petra Volpe (The Divine Order) the series opened as one of the most successful series on Swiss National TV.
Jagdzeit
Directed by: Sabine Boss
An intense thriller starring German Film Award winner Ulrich Tukur (John Rabe). Recorded at AIR Studios London, the score was praised for its “very unique and special instrumentation, which skilfully combines unusual acoustic instruments with electronics”.
(Laudatio from German newcomer film music award “Rolf-Hans Müller Preis”)
“Last year’s competition during the 8th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) saw 145 composers from 27 countries enter a score for the Swiss animation film Evermore, with the nod going to Basel-born percussionist and composer Michael Kunstle.”
“local Michael Künstle came out on top, achieving a perfect balance between differentiated texture and emotional intensity.”
“There is a lot of attention to detail in the music, which is reflected above all in the high-quality recorded instruments and ensembles. […] The music allows the audience to immerse themselves in the stress and madness of the protagonist and to experience his escalating emotions over the course of the film without being distracted from the movie.”
“Michael Künstle and Matteo Pagamici are a dazzlingly skilled composer team, creating evocative and emotional scores across all genres of film, television and advertising.”
Music Reel
Credits
(alphabetically)
Directors
Daniel von Aarburg (as orchestrator for „Generalstreik 1918“)
Sandeep Abraham
Gabriel Baur
Sarah Bellin
Sabine Boss
Jeshua Dreyfus
Christian Frei (Academy Awards Winner 2002: Best Documentary Feature)
Frauke Finsterwalder
Marcel Gisler
Wilfired Meichtry
Pierre Monnard
Michael O’Halloran
Julio Ramirez
Viola von Scarpatetti
Mike Schaerer (as orchestrator for „Die Kleine Hexe“)
Michael Steiner
Natascha Vavrina
Artists
Baba Shrimps
Andrina Bollinger
Brass Department
Deep Space Whaling
David Klein
Klischée
Lovebugs
Noti Wümié
Rootwords
Anna Rossinelli
Jasmin Tabatabai
Marena Whitcher
Soloists
Laia Braun
Hans Dekker
Domenic Landolf
John Goldsby
Everton Nelson
Olaf Polziehn
Rainer Schmidt
Dmitry Smirnov
Adam Taubitz
Conductors
Krzesimir Debski
Cliff Masterson
Anthony Weeden
David Zinman
Orchestras
Members of the London Symphony Orchestra
Members of the London Contemporary Orchestra
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
Luxembourg Studio Orchestra
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Symphony Orchestra Basel
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Ensembles
Camerata Rhein
Ensemble Diversité
Ensemble TaG Winterthur
Trio Eclipse
Production Companies
Biviofilms
Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH
Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH
Doc Lab
Gaumont Television
Mohworks Films
ONIX Film GmbH
Seed Audio-Visual Communication AG
SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Studiocanal GmbH
Teleclub AG
TILT Production
Turnus Film AG
ZDF / ARTE
Zodiac Pictures Ltd.
Publishers/Distribution
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group
Cineworx GmbH
Constantin Film Verleih
First Run Features
Frenetic Films
KimStim
Netflix
Studiocanal GmbH
Universal Music Group
Vinca Film
The Walt Disney Company (Schweiz) GmbH
TV Stations
ARD
ARTE
France 2
SRF
ZDF