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Date of Birth

7 October 1949, Beirut, Lebanon

Mini Biography

Gabriel Yared stopped his law studies at the age of 20 to work as a professional music composer. He studied with Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ohana. He worked as a composer, orchestrator or producer for such singers as Françoise Hardy, Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Bécaud and Mireille Mathieu. He made his film debut in 1980 with the score for Jean-Luc Godard's Every Man for Himself (1980). He has since scored a huge list of movies for such major directors as Jean-Jacques Beineix, Robert Altman and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He won an Academy Award for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996) score and has been nominated for two others (Cold Mountain (2003) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)). He also composes ballets for Carolyn Carlson and Roland Petit. He is the founder and director of the Pléiade Academy, which welcomes and supports talented young composers in the production and promotion of their works. This biography has been made with the help of Gabriel Yared's official website.

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Trivia

Created a research and broadcast centre for folk music, called Pleiade.

1973: Began a career as composer-orchestrator for singers such as Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday, Mireille Mathieu and Sylvie Vartan.

A self-taught musician, he abandoned law studies in 1971, moved to Paris and attended musical composition courses given by Henri Dutilleux at the Ecole Normale De Musique.