Laurent Levesque

Laurent Levesque
Background information
Birth name	Laurent Denis Levesque
Born	(1970-01-28) 28 January 1970 (age 54) Lyon, France
Occupation(s)	Composer, orchestrator, conductor
Website	laurentlevesque.com

Laurent Levesque (born 28 January 1970) is a film score composer. He started the piano at 4 and graduated at 17 from the French national music school academy with five first prizes.

He then became a pianist in several symphonic orchestras and an accompanist at the Opéra National de Lyon.

When he went to perform in New York, he met Philip Glass who introduced him to film music scoring. His first experience in composition for a movie was with the director Costa-Gavras in 2001 for his controversial movie Amen. He swiftly became skilled, both as a performer and a composer, and has since composed more than 40 soundtracks for such directors as Cédric Klapisch and Agnès Varda.

External links

• Laurent Levesque on Internet Movie Database
• Laurent Levesque performing live on French TV channel France 2 and interviewed by Patricia Petibon (in French)
• Official website (in French and English)
• ASCAP biography
• Lancel A day in the life of Eliette Abécassis about Laurent Levesque's music