Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.
20 Facts About Gabriel Yared
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Gabriel Yared later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella.
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Gabriel Yared won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on The English Patient and was nominated for both The Talented Mr Ripley and Cold Mountain.
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When Gabriel Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher.
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Two years later Gabriel Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons.
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When Gabriel Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Gabriel Yared replaced him as the organist of Universite Saint-Joseph.
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Gabriel Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and many other composers.
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Gabriel Yared gained a degree in law and did not formally study music at the university level until he traveled to France in 1969 to attend the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris as a non-registered student.
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Gabriel Yared subsequently said that his time in Brazil greatly influenced his work.
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Gabriel Yared then went back to France, where he met and collaborated with the Costa Brothers, Jacques Dutronc, Francoise Hardy, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, and numerous other musicians.
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Gabriel Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella.
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Gabriel Yared composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis.
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Gabriel Yared had a notable collaboration with Rene Laloux in the late 1980es on Gandahar and How Wang-fo was saved produced at the SEK Studio in North Korea.
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Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Gabriel Yared was tapped to compose the score for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
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Gabriel Yared said that the score which the test audience had heard was not yet finished and mixed properly, and that the studio had given him no opportunity to alter his score in light of the audience's reaction.
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Gabriel Yared created the score to the narrative ballet Raven Girl choreographed to the Royal Ballet by Wayne McGregor after the story by Audrey Niffenegger.
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Gabriel Yared has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score on three occasions.
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Gabriel Yared was nominated for The Talented Mr Ripley and Cold Mountain, but lost to John Corigliano and Howard Shore, respectively.
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Gabriel Yared has received three Golden Globe and three BAFTA nominations for the same films, and won both awards for The English Patient.
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Gabriel Yared has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, again winning for The English Patient.