Nicolas Errèra

Nicolas Errèra

Composer

Biography

Nicolas Errèra was born 21 May 1967 in Paris. He is a French composer and musician working all over the world. Co-founder of innovatives electronics groups Grand Popo Football Club and Rouge Rouge, he also composes soundtracks for films and television.Nicolas Errèra comes from a family of artists. An only child, his father is a playwright and his mother a set designer. He was born in Paris.He majored in science to attain his baccalaureate and also studied philosophy. When he was a teenager he joined the group of the English theatre director Peter Brook, under whom he featured in 3 plays. Alongside his studies he took lessons in piano and composing at the École normale de musique de Paris, studying under Serge Petigirard (piano) and Max Deutsch (composing). Here he was awarded his first prize for composing. He also studied Harmony and Counterpoint with the composer Joanne Richer. In 1998 he set up the electro pop group Grand Popo Football Club and in 2002 he created the group Rouge Rouge. Both groups went on to be associated with the French touch. He has written music for more than 60 French and international films, including Au nom de ma fille, Sleepless Night (2011 film) by Frédéric Jardin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Sticky Fingers (2009 film) by the Canadian film-maker Ken Scott (filmmaker), The Lookout (2012 film) by the Italian director Michele Placido. Nocturna (film) by Spain's Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia, (won in 2007 Goya Award for Best Animated Film). The Butterfly (2002 film) with Michel Serrault. In 2008 the success in China of the film The Butterfly (which was watched by more than 10 million people) led to a meeting with the Hong Kong director Benny Chan (film director). This paved the way for him to work in Asian movies, as he composed the soundtracks for three of Chan's films – The White Storm, Shaolin (film) and Connected (film). In 2015, He composed the music for Mountain Cry directed by Larry Yang (closing film at Busan International Film Festival. In 2018, he composed the music for the movie Hidden Man directed by Jiang Wen. (The movie is selected at Toronto International Film Festival 2018.


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