Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on The English Patient (1996) and was nominated for both The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003). When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and many other composers. This extensive reading inspired his first original composition, a piano waltz. Yared gained a degree in law and did not formally study music at the university level until he traveled to France in 1969 to attend the École Normale de Musique de Paris as a non-registered student. There he learned the rules of music composition from Henri Dutilleux. At the end of 1971, Yared went to Brazil to visit his uncle and was asked by the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival. The song he composed went on to win first prize. While in Brazil, he also performed with a small orchestra. Yared subsequently said that his time in Brazil greatly influenced his work. In 1975, he arranged the album Minacantalucio for the popular Italian singer Mina. He then went back to France, where he met and collaborated with the Costa Brothers, Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, and numerous other musicians. This was a prolific period for the composer and he wrote nearly 3,000 pieces over a span of about six years. His contributions included a number of radio and TV jingles, such as TF1 news jingles and an episode on the series In the Tracks of. Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella. His first collaboration with Minghella was the 1996 film The English Patient, which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis. Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including Betty Blue (1986), Map of the Human Heart (1992), City of Angels (1998), Message in a Bottle (1999), Autumn in New York (2000), The Next Best Thing (2000), Possession (2002), and Bon Voyage (2003). He had a notable collaboration with René Laloux in the late 1980es on Gandahar and How Wang-fo was saved produced at the SEK Studio in North Korea. Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was tapped to compose the score for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. However, he was eventually replaced on the project by Atli Örvarsson. ... Source: Article "Gabriel Yared" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack
(Self)
Sarah
(Paul Jarry, the composer)
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
(Self (archive footage))
My Way
(Self)
Blue Notes and Bungalows
(Self)
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
(Self)
Victoires de la musique
((Original Cinema/Television Soundtrack of the Year))
Hollywood in Vienna
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Numéro un
(Self)
The English Patient
(Original Music Composer)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
(Original Music Composer)
The Lives of Others
(Original Music Composer)
Cold Mountain
(Original Music Composer)
Agent Trouble
(Original Music Composer)
City of Angels
(Original Music Composer)
Dream One
(Original Music Composer)
Shall We Dance?
(Original Music Composer)
Message in a Bottle
(Music)
Autumn in New York
(Original Music Composer)
The Lover
(Original Music Composer)
Possession
(Music)
Auntie Danielle
(Original Music Composer)
Gandahar
(Original Music Composer)
Camille Claudel
(Original Music Composer)
Betty Blue
(Music)
Romero
(Music)
Amelia
(Music)
All About Actresses
(Original Music Composer)
Dangerous Moves
(Original Music Composer)
Disorder
(Original Music Composer)
The Hedgehog
(Original Music Composer)
Beyond Therapy
(Music)
Black for Remembrance
(Original Music Composer)
Scarlet
(Original Music Composer)
In the Land of Blood and Honey
(Original Music Composer)
1408
(Original Music Composer)
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
(Music)
A Room with a View
(Original Music Composer)
Tonka
(Music)
Dilili in Paris
(Original Music Composer)
Every Man for Himself
(Original Music Composer)
In Secret
(Original Music Composer)
Tempo
(Original Music Composer)
The Seasons of Pleasure
(Music)
Wings of Courage
(Music)
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
(Music)
Lisa
(Music)
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
(Original Music Composer)
Broken Keys
(Original Music Composer)
A Promise
(Music)
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
(Original Music Composer)
Zone Red
(Music)
Map of the Human Heart
(Music)
Scarlet Fever
(Music)
Adieu Bonaparte
(Music)
Sarah
(Music)
Sylvia
(Original Music Composer)
Broadway
(Music)
Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser
(Music)
How Wang-Fo Was Saved
(Original Music Composer)
The Captive
(Original Music Composer)
Tom at the Farm
(Original Music Composer)
Clavigo
(Original Music Composer)
Lucie sur Seine
(Music)
Chocolat
(Music)
Adam Resurrected
(Music)
It's Only the End of the World
(Original Music Composer)
Tennessee Nights
(Music)
The Prophet
(Original Music Composer)
The Promise
(Original Music Composer)
Troy
(Additional Music)
The King's Whore
(Music)
A Royal Affair
(Music)
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
(Original Music Composer)
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
(Original Music Composer)
The Little Wars
(Music)
The One and Only
(Music)
Vincent & Theo
(Original Music Composer)
By the Sea
(Original Music Composer)
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
(Music)
Belle du Seigneur
(Original Music Composer)
Malevil
(Music)
1001 Nights
(Original Music Composer)
Hanna K.
(Original Music Composer)
Just the Two of Us
(Original Music Composer)
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
(Original Music Composer)
Haute Cuisine
(Music)
The Groundhogs
(Original Music Composer)
Lost Seamen
(Original Music Composer)
Judy
(Original Music Composer)
The Idol
(Original Music Composer)
The Happy Prince
(Original Music Composer)
It's Only the End of the World
(Orchestrator)
Tom at the Farm
(Musician)
Blue Notes and Bungalows
(Music)
Hanna K.
(Music)
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
(Original Music Composer)
The Life Ahead
(Music)
City of Angels
(Orchestrator)
The Wedding Guest
(Musical)
Bon Voyage
(Original Music Composer)
The Moon in the Gutter
(Original Music Composer)
The Next Best Thing
(Music)
Breaking and Entering
(Original Music Composer)
Fire on Sight
(Original Music Composer)
Shadow Dance
(Original Music Composer)
Fall from Grace
(Original Music Composer)
Ernest the Vampire
(Original Music Composer)
First On The Rope
(Music)
La Romana
(Music)