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. 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 Pascals 1992 film Le petit prince a dit, and Agnès Merlets 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. 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 Coulaiss 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, Akhenatons group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta.In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation Lenfant qui voulait être un ours, and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffers Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, 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. Since then, Coulaiss 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.In 2009 he also collaborated with Irish band Kíla to produce the soundtrack for the beautifully and uniquely animated feature film, The Secret of Kells, which tells the story of a parentless boy, Brendan, and his involvement with The Book of Kells. The music is equally light and dark and the textures and sounds equally European and Irish.In 2013, he wrote the soundtrack for Lady Ô, the evening show of the Futuroscope, directed by Skertzò and starring Nolwenn Leroy as the storyteller. ...Source: Article Bruno Coulais from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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