Jean-Michel Bernard

JeanMichel Bernard born 23 November 1961 is a French pianist composer educator orchestrator and music producer He is well known for regularly writing performing and scoring for films such as The Science of Sleep Hugo ParisManhattan Cah and Be Kind Rewind Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two When he was 14 he was awarded first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris At 19 he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London whilst pursuing a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent jazz artists including Wild Bill Davis Jimmy Woode Duke Ellingtons bassist and Eddie Lockjaw Davis From 1987 to 1991 he worked as musical director and conductor of the successful radio show LOreille en Coin on National Public Radio France Inter Between 2000 and 2003 he performed with the Ray Charles Quartet on the European and Australian tours as organist and conductor this guy is a genius Ray used to say concerning Bernard He also scored many documentaries and commercials during the 1990s His career as a composer began with animated films followed by collaborations with masters such as Lalo Schifrin and Ennio Morricone He frequently works with director Michel Gondry and has composed songs for films including Human Nature and he scored The Science of Sleep which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival He was nominated for the World Soundtrack Awards in 2007 as Discovery of the Year and won the France MusiqueUCMF award at the Cannes Film Festival the same year for this movie In 2003 Bernard wrote the music for TF1s À prendre ou à laisser the French version of Deal or No Deal In 2008 he scored the music for Gondrys Be Kind Rewind Cash by Eric Besnard and A Pain in the Ass by Francis Veber The same day Be Kind Rewind was shown at the Sundance Festival Bernard performed alongside rappersinger Mos Def and Gondry an avid drummer The following year the Cannes Film Festival invited him to represent France in the film music concert program He also received an award for his achievement outside of his native country from the European Union of Film Music Composers UCMF and was appointed as sound designer for both HBOs channel and website He has collaborated with French actress and director Fanny Ardant on two of her films Chimères Absentes and Cadences Obstinées starring Gérard Depardieu and worked on Academy Awardwinning Hugo by Martin Scorsese He scored the music of Love Punch by Joel Hopkins starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson Love at First Child by Anne Giafferi and Money by Georgian director Gela Babluani Bernard has conducted master classes at the Cannes Film Festival as well as in Montreal Angers La Rochelle Kraków Cologne and in Aubagne where he performed a live version of Jazz For Dogs an album cocreated with Kimiko Ono and featuring a number of prestigious guests including Fanny Ardant Francis Lai and Laurent Korcia Source Article JeanMichel Bernard from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30