Bruno Coulais
Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. Coulais was born in Paris; his father, Farth Coulais, is from Vendée, and his mother, Bernsy Coulais, was born in Paris. Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano and taught by Bren Santos, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais met François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to sonorize his documentary México mágico who permit to compose the first soundtracks for Jacques Davila "qui trop embrasse" en 1986 . Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le Petit Prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993. In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux. The largest turning point of his career came in 1996, when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou of the documentary Microcosmos. This single film, which gave a great significance to the music in it, was a great success and made Coulais one of the most wanted composers of French film music. In 1997, he won the César award for the best musical score in a film, as well as a Victoire de la Musique. His reputation was confirmed by the soundtracks to Himalaya (1999) and Les rivières pourpres (2000), and after that Bruno Coulais's name was to be found on most new French blockbusters, such as Belphégor and Vidocq. After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998. In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation L'Enfant qui voulait être un ours , and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, starring Jean-Baptiste Maunier in the lead soprano singing role, which subsequently became an international hit. The music for this film received as great praise as the film itself, and it won Coulais his third César award. The song Vois sur ton chemin was also nominated for an Academy Award (Best original song). Since then, Coulais's collaborations in cinema seem to be limited to works by directors with whom he already shares some history, in particular Jacques Perrin, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, and James Huth. In 2009, he won at the 37th Annie Awards, in the "Music in a Feature Production" category for Coraline. ... Source: Article "Bruno Coulais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Serial Lover
(Original Music Composer)
The Chorus
(Music)
Agathe Cléry
(Original Music Composer)
Winged Migration
(Original Music Composer)
The Spellbound
(Music)
Genesis
(Music)
Female Agents
(Original Music Composer)
Walking a Tightrope
(Music)
Microcosmos
(Original Music Composer)
The Magnet
(Music)
The Secret of Kells
(Original Music Composer)
Secret Agents
(Original Music Composer)
Vidocq
(Music)
The Last Deadly Mission
(Original Music Composer)
Volontaire
(Music)
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
(Original Music Composer)
Hellphone
(Original Music Composer)
Time
(Music)
Turk's Head
(Original Music Composer)
The Brice Man
(Original Music Composer)
Ulzhan
(Original Music Composer)
Wolfwalkers
(Orchestrator)
Making of "la scène au scalpel"
(Original Music Composer)
Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête
(Original Music Composer)
The Second Wind
(Original Music Composer)
Coraline
(Original Music Composer)
Pour toi, j'ai tué
(Music)
La rupture
(Music)
Fire in Paradise
(Music)
There's a Monster in My Kitchen
(Music)
Playing Dead
(Music)
Farewell, My Queen
(Music)
All About Love
(Music)
The White Planet
(Music)
The Libertine
(Music)
My Journey Through French Cinema
(Music)
Switch
(Music)
Don Juan
(Music)
Le Chambon
(Music)
Hard Off
(Original Music Composer)
Goodbye Vinyle
(Original Music Composer)
Lucky Luke
(Original Music Composer)
Oceans
(Music)
Maigret
(Original Music Composer)
Amazonia
(Music)
Mune: Guardian of the Moon
(Original Music Composer)
Diary of a Chambermaid
(Original Music Composer)
Wendell & Wild
(Original Music Composer)
My Worst Nightmare
(Original Music Composer)
Origins of Life
(Original Music Composer)
The Forest Maker
(Original Music Composer)
Harrison's Flowers
(Music)
Old Rascal
(Music)
Song of the Sea
(Original Music Composer)
Chevrotine
(Sound)
Summer Frost
(Music)
And the Little Prince Said
(Music)
Seasons
(Music)
Deep in the Woods
(Original Music Composer)
Never Ever
(Original Music Composer)
False Confessions
(Music)
Balzac: A Life of Passion
(Original Music Composer)
Milady
(Music)
Brice 3
(Original Music Composer)
Story of Annette Zelman
(Original Music Composer)
3 Hearts
(Original Music Composer)
Crime Insiders
(Music)
Boléro
(Music)
Belle Maman
(Original Music Composer)
Ludwig II
(Original Music Composer)
The Son of the Shark
(Original Music Composer)
Marry Me
(Original Music Composer)
Epiphany Sunday
(Original Music Composer)
Nuit féline
(Music)
Hot House
(Original Music Composer)
Max & Co
(Original Music Composer)
Eva
(Original Music Composer)
The Man in the Basement
(Original Music Composer)
The Tombs
(Original Music Composer)
Himalaya
(Original Music Composer)
Qui trop embrasse...
(Music)
The Chameleon Slayer
(Original Music Composer)
Masaan
(Original Music Composer)
Marie Curie
(Music)
Sometimes in April
(Original Music Composer)
Winged Migration
(Music Director)
Les Choristes in Concert
(Compositor)
White Fang
(Original Music Composer)
White Fang
(Orchestrator)
Bel ragazzo
(Music)
Let's Be Friends
(Original Music Composer)
La Syndicaliste
(Original Music Composer)
HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
(Original Music Composer)
The Secret Wife
(Music)
Calm at Sea
(Music)
Mama Weed
(Original Music Composer)
Normandy Nude
(Music)
Casanova, Last Love
(Original Music Composer)
Crime Scenes
(Music)
Villa Amalia
(Music)
White as Snow
(Original Music Composer)
Meet the Malawas
(Sound)
An Open Heart
(Music)
Gemma Bovery
(Original Music Composer)
The Field of Enchantment
(Original Music Composer)
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
(Original Music Composer)
Happiness Never Comes Alone
(Original Music Composer)
Wolfwalkers
(Original Music Composer)
The Crimson Rivers
(Original Music Composer)
The Return of Casanova
(Original Music Composer)
The Magnet
(Original Music Composer)
Vice vertu et vice versa
(Original Music Composer)
Lien de parenté
(Original Music Composer)
Le Septième Juré
(Original Music Composer)
The Accursed Kings
(Music)
Aurore
(Music)
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Original Music Composer)
Le Peuple des forêts
(Original Music Composer)
1968 - The Global Revolt
(Music)
Softly from Paris
(Original Music Composer)
The King’s Favorite
(Original Music Composer)
Balzac
(Compositor)