Andrey Sigle


Andrey Reinhardtovich Sigle is a Russian film producer, film music composer, musician, head of the companies Proline Film and Studio ACDC.
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Biography

Andrey Sigle was born on May 17, 1964, in Gorky. Andrey started to study music since he was 5.
Sigle graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov music college. In 1986 he entered Conservatory in the name of Rimsky-Korsakov, piano class. He was invited by the head of Royal Swedish Academy of Music to study the profession of a film music composer, which became the unique precedent in Russia.
In the mid 1980s, he became interested in sequencers and other instruments which allow to imitate the sounds of the philharmonic orchestra. Andrey participated in recording of the albums for such music groups like Kino, Alisa, Nautilus Pompilius, and also projects for solo by Sergey Kuryokhin and Boris Grebenshchikov. He worked as an arranger and sound designer for their albums.
He also worked as a composer together with Victor Tsoi and Kino at the creation of Igla (The Needle) (1988), Sobachye serdtse (Heart of a Dog) (1988), took part in the project named Posetitel museya (A Visitor to a Museum) by Konstantin Lopushanskiy, the composer is Alfred Schnittke.
Andrey made his debut as a film music composer after the shooting of Klesh, produced by Alexander Baranov and Bakhit Kalibaev. This project had become a turning point in his career and from that moment Andrey started to compose music for motion pictures only.
Among his works are: Sensation by Boris Gorlov, Koleso lubvi by Ernest Yasan, Poslednee delo Varenogo by Vitaly Melnikov, Prohindiada-2 by Alexander Kaliagin, Russkaya Simfonia by Konstantin Lopushansky, Chetirnadtsat tsvetov radugi by Dmitry Svetozarov.
Siegle became the composer of a popular Russian serial named Ulitsi razbitih fonarey (Streets of Broken Lights). In 1998-2000 he composed for television series Agent natsionalnoy bezopasnosti, Po imeni Baron.
The new turn was marked with the projects Faust, Telets (Taurus), Otets i syn (Father and Son), Solntse (The Sun) where he worked together with Alexander Sokurov, Russian director. These projects were awarded a lot of prizes at the international festivals.
A.S.D.S. Cinema Production Company was established in 2002 by Andrey Siegle and Russian producer Dmitry Svetozarov. The serial Tantsor, Tri tsveta lubvi were released by this studio. Nastoiashie menti and Favorsky are successfully completed.
Proline-film Studio was established by Andrey Sigle in 2004. This studio specializes in feature films. The Sun by Alexander Sokurov was presented at the 55th Anniversary International Berlin Film Festival, Gadkie lebedi (The Ugly Swans) by Konstantin Lopushansky won “Best Music” award on Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 2006. Siegle is a film music composer and a producer of this project. He is a co-producer of French-Russian project "Serko" by producer Joel Farges. The opening night is planned to be held in March 2006. Siegle was also awarded a prestigious prize for "Best music" in the Udalyonnyy dostup (The Remote Access), a feature film by Svetlana Proskurina, at Kinotavr cinema festival in Sochi.
In 2014 Andrey Sigle was nominated for Nika Award in “Best Music” competition.
Andrey Sigle is currently living and working in Saint-Petersburg.

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