Christian Biegai is an award-winning film composer whose work spans feature films, TV series, documentaries, and animated productions.

Christian’s formal training includes saxophone performance at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Royal College of Music in London. He also holds a Master’s Degree in performance and electro-acoustic composition at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA.

His early career saw him collaborating with notable filmmakers, starting with Duncan Jones‘s short film “Whistle” (2002). The following year, he composed the score for “Regoch” (2003), a Croatian animated fairytale written and directed by Helena Bulaja. His work with Ms. Bulaja led to him scoring two Croatian short films, Jurai Lerotic’s “Then I See Tanja“ (2010) and Dana Budisavljević’s “Family Meals“ (2012). Between 2006 to 2007, Christian worked as a freelance music editor and composer at Peter Jackson‘s Park Road Post studios in New Zealand. In 2008, along with fellow composers Dave Whitehead and Rikki Gooch, Christian was awarded the prize for Best Score for the documentary “The Big Picture” at the Quantas New Zealand Film and TV Awards.

Christian’s first feature-length film was the black comedy “Wir Sagen Du! Schatz“ (2007), written and directed by Marc Meyer. In 2009, he scored an episode of the iconic German crime show “Tatort”, directed by Didi Danquart. From 2011 to 2019, Christian has scored 35 episodes of the classic German children’s television series “Löwenzahn“. A longstanding creative relationship with director Brigitte Bertele has resulted in Christian scoring four of her feature films, “Nacht vor Augen” (2008), “Der Brand” (2011),  “Grenzgang” (2013) and “Ellas Entscheidung” (2016).  2015 saw the release of a collaboration with Olaf Taranczewski, writing the music for the American feature film Mi America (2015), directed by Robert Fontaine, which was released in theaters , HBO Latino and later on Amazon (US). In 2018 he co-composed the orchestral score to the third episode of the German TV-Series “Ku’damm 59” (2018) directed by Sven Bohse, along Maurus Ronner und Anna Kühnlein. 

Since 2019, Christian started collaborating with Kerim König, developing the music of the TV Series “Blutige Anfänger” (2020 – 2024) and composing the score for an episode of “Barcelona Krimi” (2020) and several episodes of “Tatort Münster” (2021-2025). The episode “Propheteus” was nominated in 2022 for best film music at the Germany Academy for Television (DAFF)

In 2024, Christian was invited to be a guest lecturer with Kerim König at the University of Arts Berlin, teaching Film Music Production.

Beyond composing, Christian is an accomplished saxophonist who has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, clair-obscur, Antony and the Johnsons, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, DM Stith, The Babylon Orchestra, Edison Woods and Barbara Morgenstern amongst others.

Christian’s studio is based in Kreuzberg, Berlin.