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Michel Portal
Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of…
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Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Portal was born in Bayonne on 27 November 1935. His family was musical and there were several instruments in his house when he was growing up. His interest in jazz began after hearing it on the radio after World War II. He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris and conducting with Pierre Dervaux. Portal "gained experience in light music with the bandleaders Henri Rossotti and (in Spain in 1958) Perez Prado, as well as with the drummer Benny Bennett (1960), Raymond Fonsèque (1963), Aimé Barelli, and, for many years, the singer Claude Nougaro". Portal co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art. During 1969, Portal played on a recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen. Portal began scoring music for films in the 1980s. He has won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film three times. Source: Article "Michel Portal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2012
Le Professeur
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Cigarettes et bas nylons
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2010
Lies
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2005
The Girl from the Chartreuse
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2003
Le porteur de cartable
Movie Sound
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2003
Un fils de notre temps
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2001
Jacques Lacan, la psychanalyse réinventée
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2000
Passionnément
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1997
The Comedian
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1997
Buud Yam
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1997
The Colors of the Devil
Movie Original Music Composer
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1997
Le Concerto de Mozart
Movie Himself
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1996
1914 the Glorious Summer
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1995
Doctor Semmelweis
Movie Music
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1994
The Machine
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1994
Eugénie Grandet
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
The Return of Casanova
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1992
Au Sud du Sud
Movie Music
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1990
Alcyon
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1990
Dr. Petiot
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1990
Ke arteko egunak
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1990
Adventure of Catherine C.
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1990
Angels
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1989
Children of Chaos
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1989
À corps et à cris
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1989
A Tale of the Wind
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1989
The Mortal Fortune
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1988
No Harm Intended
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1987
Sorceress
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1987
Yeelen
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1987
Milan noir
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1986
Max My Love
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1983
Fou comme l'oiseau
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1983
Le fou du désert
TV show Compositor
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1982
Paradise for All
Movie Musician
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1982
The Return of Martin Guerre
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1982
Short Memory
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1982
Champs-Elysées
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1982
Café Plongeoir
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