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A propos de Bernard BECKER
Born in the south of France, Bernard Becker started studying classical Piano at the age of 6. A few years later, his affinity for improvisation and composition led him to buy his first electronic music devices. Building up his home studio carefully, he learned all the different steps of sound producing; from music writing to recording and mixing. At the age of 16, he received an assignment from a dance company and composed his first piece of ballet music, performed live at the Nature Theater of Marseille.
Two years later, he left Marseille to come to Paris to study Sound Engineering. After getting his degree, he attended a musical session with Gabriel Yared in Biarritz, and discovered his passion for movie music as well as a fascination for classical and contemporary music writing. Back in Paris, he was accepted at the conservatory and the university and studied with some of the best French teachers for five years. He was awarded his first Prizes in musical writing (harmony, Counterpoint, and fugue), as well as all his degrees in Orchestration, Analysis, Musical History, et al.
He then began his career as an arranger and a musician. He worked for several singers, becoming involved in different musicals like Monte Cristo and Oliver Twist. Soon afterward, he was hired by different French composers to arrange and produce music for well-known TV series and Feature movies like Chouchou.
Concurrently, he developed his own career as a composer, and began writing music for documentaries, nature shows, TV series, advertisements, and short movies. His ability to blend classical, contemporary, and electronic music makes his own style particularly modern and powerful; it naturally allowed him to compose, orchestrate and produce an outstanding epic score for the animated movie directed by David Iglesias : EL GUERRERO SIN NOMBRE. Recorded by an 80 musician orchestra and a 40 singer choir, this soundtrack was unanimously acclaimed by the French press during the Auxerre Festival in October 2005.
In 2006, Bernard Becker composed for a new feature movie, NUIT NOIRE, directed by Daniel Colas and featuring some of the best French actors. This time he explored a much darker and more dramatic music, writing a hypnotic score for string quartet and high tenor voice, magnificently interpreted by Erik Karol. Additionally, he was on tour with the artist WATINE, for whom he produced and arranged a 10 track album entitled Dermaphrodite. Several newspapers hailed it for its originality and the quality of its musical production.
Now in 2007, Bernard works on several TV projects as well as on the birth of an Electro-Video trio called PLAYING THE FRAMES.
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