About

Known credits:
29
Birthday:
1961-11-23
Place of birth:
France
Website:

Jean-Michel Bernard

Overview

Jean-Michel 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, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, 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 Ellington's bassist) and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis.

From 1987 to 1991 he worked as musical director and conductor of the successful radio show L’Oreille 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 Musique/UCMF award at the Cannes Film Festival the same year for this movie.

In 2003, Bernard wrote the music for TF1's À prendre ou à laisser, the French version of Deal or No Deal.

In 2008 he scored the music for Gondry's 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 rapper/singer 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 HBO's 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 Award-winning 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 co-created with Kimiko Ono and featuring a number of prestigious guests including Fanny Ardant, Francis Lai and Laurent Korcia. ...

Source: Article "Jean-Michel Bernard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Acting

2022 Piano Cinéma Actor Self N/A
N/A
2020 In The Tracks Of - Special Edition Actor Self N/A
N/A
2006 The Science of Sleep Actor Policier qui joue au piano 65
Fair

Production

2020 Ballad for a Pierced Heart Production Co-Producer 59
Average

Sound

2024 Maya, Give Me a Title Sound Music 58
Average
2022 Thank God We Have Each Other Sound Music 59
Average
2022 Piano Cinéma Sound Music N/A
N/A
2022 Piano Cinéma Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
2022 Piano Cinéma Sound Musician N/A
N/A
2022 Piano Cinéma Sound Music Arranger N/A
N/A
2020 Ballad for a Pierced Heart Sound Music 59
Average
2015 Alison Sound Music N/A
N/A
2015 Mind Your Own Business Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
2014 The Love Punch Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2014 Obsessive Rythms Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2012 Paris-Manhattan Sound Music 58
Average
2012 Uncle Charles Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2010 Small World Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2008 Ca$h Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2008 Be Kind Rewind Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
2008 A Pain in the Ass Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2007 My Place in the Sun Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2006 The Science of Sleep Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2004 Deal or No Deal France Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
2001 The Officers' Ward Sound Music 60
Fair
1998 Michel Strogoff Sound Music N/A
N/A
1991 Madame Bovary Sound Music 59
Average
1990 Quiet Days in Clichy Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average

Crew

2008 Passaic Mosaic Crew Thanks 59
Average