GERT WILDEN

Biography

Gert Wilden is best known for his scores to Taxi Lisboa by Wolf Gaudlitz, the Oscar award-winning shortfilm Quiero Ser by Florian Gallenberger and the extremely successful children`s film The Wild Soccer Bunch part 1. He also contributed a piano composition to Marc Rothemund's Oscar-nominated drama Sophie Scholl - The Final Days.

Wilden studied composition, piano and conducting at the Richard Strauß Conservatory in Munich. He worked with various renowned artists of the international jazz and rock scene, including Billy Cobham, John Lord, Brian Auger, Hermeto Pascoal, Claus Doldinger and many others. Gert Wilden composed and produced music for more than 100 fiction and documentary films - one of which is the documentary Scientists under Attack, which was nominated for the best original score at the American MAVERICK MOVIE AWARDS. His latest film scores include the music to the Klaus Härö directed European coproduction The Fencer and Karola Hattop's The Snow Queen, which was nominated twice for the Grimme Award 2015 as well as for the Austrian ROMY Award. In 2019 Gert Wilden worked on the documentary Kroos, directed by Manfred Oldenburg, and on Esther Gronenborn's latest projects Väter allein zu Haus and Ziemlich russische Freunde (WT).

In 2016, Gert Wilden received the Bavarian Film Award in the category "Best Film Score" for his work on the Oscar-shortlisted film The Fencer and for the score for Hannas schlafende Hunde (directed by Andreas Gruber).