Composer, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Winner of the Ascap “Screen Music” Award in 2020 for his work on the number one show in the US Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks, Patrick Sigwalt also won the César “Film Score” Award in 1998 for his work of producer on the music composed by Bernardo Sandoval for the movie Western directed by Manuel Poirier.
Plunged into a musical environment at an early age, Patrick Sigwalt starts playing the piano at four. He is twelve when he took the stage for the first time and sixteen when he recorded his first album. While studying advanced mathematics and wave physics at the C.N.A.M, he is taking a keen interest in sound synthesis and recording. After an internship at Town House and Air Studios in London, he returned to France and joined the Studio Delphine in Paris. He worked as a sound-engineer and artistic director for multiple records of Delphine Productions and took charge of the technical lead of the studio.
In 1985 he founds with Jean Baudlot First Dynasty, a rock label focused on emerging talents. In 1988, he started working as a free-lance and played a part in the composition and the production of many records and film scores in France and at the international. In 2008 he founds Score Factory, a production company specialized in original soundtrack music.
Patrick Sigwalt composed over four hundred pieces for film and television, which include Tristan et Iseut, Le complice idéal, Piaf Intime, Max & Lili, Heidi, L’Atlantide…
He also composed and produced over two hundred fifty records for French and international artists such as Sade, Laura Branigham, Serge Gainsbourg, Francis Lai, Bernard Lubat, Marc Perrone, Arthur H, Manu Dibango, Western, ERA, and won multiple diamonds records for the Ocarina LP.
Teacher at the National Superior Music and Dance Conservatory in Paris (CNSMDP), where he founded the “Music Score” class.
Admitted to Sacem in 1998, member of the Spedidam and the Adami, Honorary President of the UCMF, Vice President of the Snac, administrator of the Seam, Patrick Sigwalt is a strong supporter of creators and copyright/author’s rights. Administrator of the ‘Comité du Coeur’, he was a ‘commissioner of Sacem’s Professional Training Committee from 2014 to 2019, of the FCM’s Music Score Committee from 2014 to 2016 and of the Afdas’ Music and Choreography Committee from 2013 to 2016. He is elected Chairman of the Sacem’s Board of Directors in June 2021.