François Staal

François Staal has composed over 60 film and television scores, documentaries besides music, pubs and short films including Arte. In 2015, he signed the music of “The shot” Philip Triboit (GOLDEN PYRENEES the best single drama, and the Audience Award for Best unit at the Festival de Luchon, selection FIPA) and War of the waves Laurent Jaoui (In selection and competition at the Festival de La Rochelle), both films were shot in 2015 hearts SACD.

At the end of an artistic shock at the age of 10 years to the vision of the film “Alexander Nevsky” of “2 Sergei” (Esentein and Prokofiev) and after studying at the Lycee Henri IV, a former student of the CIM, it is self-taught he approaches film music writing, theatre and song writing. Admiration of a little “staggered” composers such as Philip Glass, François de Roubaix, Mychael Nyman, Steve Reich, Ennio Moriconne or Danny Elfman, it is still very attracted to composition more “classic” Maurice Jarre, Antoine Duhamel, Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner … He has written for the cinema and for all channels France 2, France 3, M6, TF1, Arte, Canal + and works mainly with Laurent Jaoui, Phillipe Triboit, Didier Fisherman, Laurent Dussaux, Arnaud Sélignac Luc Berault, Gabriel Aghion for among others… Although it is mainly the symphony orchestras who play his compositions, he also made using techniques as diverse as the acoustic music, modern, jazz or rock, or samplers. He is also the author and composer of four songs from albums French Poetic Rock concert he plays, especially at the Olympia in 2011 and 2015 as a favorite, and in this context, he collaborated with, among other Jean Fauque, Elvire Murail and Charlie Couture …