Evgueni Galperine
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Years active | 1999-present |
Labels | ECM Records |
Website | https://galperine-galperine.com/ |
Evgueni Galperine (born 1974) is a French composer with Russian and Ukrainian roots, born in
Biography
Evgueni Galperine was born in
Since 2003, he has devoted much of his work to film music, first as a solo artist, then as a duo (since 2009) with his brother Sacha. The career of the two brothers began with the production of the soundtrack for the 2010 film The Big Picture by Éric Lartigau.[citation needed]
If some compositions reflect, by the choice of instrumentation and rhythms, their Slavic roots (as in La Famille Bélier, The Family or Nine Lives), others are detached from them to feed themselves in an autonomous way. Minimalist trends, also influenced by the composer Arvo Pärt, are apparent, too. The brothers' soundtrack to Andrey Zvyagintsev's film Loveless received the European Film Academy (EFA) award for the best film score of the year in 2017 and IndieWire ranked it among the top ten scores of the year.[4][5]
In addition to European cinema where Evgueni has collaborated with directors such as
Among his "emotional influences", Galperine cites Modest Mussorgsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Claude Debussy and, among more recent composers, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti and Steve Reich.[3]
Discography
- Theory Of Becoming, 2022, ECM Records[3]
Filmography
- The Last Queen (2022)
- Once Upon a Studio (2023)
References
- ^ Nuc, Oliver (16 May 2018). "Evgueni Galperine, le Russe qui compose avec la nature". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Bio". Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Theory of Becoming". Evgueni Galperine. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ Tizard, Will (2017-11-14). "Loveless Wins Cinematography Prize at European Film Academy". Variety. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- IndieWire. Retrieved 2020-02-13.