Michel Portal
Sound
1935-11-25 · 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 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.
Filmography
Michel Portal @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2021
2021 · Movie
Le Professeur
2012 · Movie
Here Below
2012 · Movie
Cigarettes et bas nylons
2010 · Movie
Lies
2010 · Movie
The Girl from the Chartreuse
2005 · Movie
Le porteur de cartable
2003 · Movie
Un fils de notre temps
2003 · Movie
Jacques Lacan, la psychanalyse réinventée
2001 · Movie
Passionnément
2000 · Movie
The Comedian
1997 · Movie
Buud Yam
1997 · Movie
The Colors of the Devil
1997 · Movie
Le Concerto de Mozart
1997 · Movie
1914 the Glorious Summer
1996 · Movie
Doctor Semmelweis
1995 · Movie
The Machine
1994 · Movie
Eugénie Grandet
1994 · Movie
The Return of Casanova
1992 · Movie
Au Sud du Sud
1992 · Movie
Alcyon
1990 · Movie
Dr. Petiot
1990 · Movie
Ke arteko egunak
1990 · Movie
Adventure of Catherine C.
1990 · Movie
Angels
1990 · Movie
Children of Chaos
1989 · Movie
À corps et à cris
1989 · Movie
A Tale of the Wind
1989 · Movie
The Mortal Fortune
1989 · Movie
No Harm Intended
1988 · Movie
Sorceress
1987 · Movie
Field of Honor
1987 · Movie
Yeelen
1987 · Movie
Milan noir
1987 · Movie
Max My Love
1986 · Movie
Fou comme l'oiseau
1983 · Movie
Le fou du désert
1983 · Series
Paradise for All
1982 · Movie
The Return of Martin Guerre
1982 · Movie
Short Memory
1982 · Movie
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Series
Café Plongeoir
1982 · Movie
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Movie
The Red Shade
1981 · Movie
Le Beau Monde
1981 · Movie
See Here My Love
1979 · Movie
The Dogs
1979 · Movie
Adoption
1979 · Movie
Surreal Estate
1976 · Movie
La Cecilia
1976 · Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Series
Tahia Ya Didou !
1971 · Movie
The Bamboo Incident
1970 · Movie
Les Trois Cousins
1970 · Movie
A Question of Rape
1967 · Movie
Paris Blues
1961 · Movie
A few notes on freedom
Movie
Icelandic Fisherman
Movie