ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
COMPOSER
CLASSICAL
Manager: Jean-Jacques Cesbron, Adam Tilley
Territory: Worldwide, concerts only
ABOUT
Film after film, Alexandre Desplat develops his incomparable art to produce a musical identity for movies as different as Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Stephen Frears’ The Queen, Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty or George Clooney’s Ides of March.
An extremely prolific musician, he enjoys the challenge of writing music that complements, essentializes, and dimensionalizes the worlds created on the silver screen. His musical eclecticism - inherited from his Greek mother, French father, and his international study of styles - allows him to organically mix the disparate languages of music. His encounter with the violinist Solrey marked the beginning of a long collaboration; together, they have created a new methodology for use of strings in film music. An uncanny sense of instrumentation transports audiences to a marvel of diverse places and times - from the magical Europe of Harry Potter to the 21st century oil fields of Syriana; from the epic space opera of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to the 17th century studio of Jan Vermeer in Girl with a Pearl Earring. His writing pivots deftly between moods of otherworldly fantasy, high drama, and historical suspense.
Two time Academy Award winner for his soundtracks to Guillermo del Toro’s Shape of Water and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, and ten times an Academy Award nominee, Alexandre Desplat has already won two Golden Globes, two Grammy Awards, three Baftas, three Cesars and numerous other distinctions. He has become one of the most brilliant composers of his generation.