Renaud BARBIER
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1969 and after studying classical piano for ten years, Renaud attends a jazz-fusion music school called “Centre Musical Créatif de Nancy” (Nancy, France) where he graduated with “unanimous special distinction with jury honors” in 1991. Then he goes to Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) for Jazz performance, Film Scoring and Jazz Composition (Herb Pomeroy). The discovery of orchestral composition leads him to record different original pieces including the music bound for the ballet “Trois Profils Pour Une Danse”. He contracts a commissioned symphonic piece “La fabuleuse histoire de Marseille…” in commemoration of the 26th centennial of the city of Marseille.
Since then, Renaud composed more than forty scores for feature films, TV movies, TV series, documentaries and commercials (Pepsi, Belgacom, Toyota, Longines…). Among them we can pick up “Le tueur de Montmartre” (Animation, 2007) awarded with many prices. “Mejor es que Gabriela no se muera” aka It’s Better If Gabriela Doesn’t Die (Dark Comedy, 2007) directed by Sergio Umansky awarded 2008 Best First Feature at the Cinequest San Jose Film Festival (USA), “Brassens, la mauvaise réputation” (biopic, 2011), “Vauban, la sueur épargne le sang” (docu-fiction 2010). He composed the music for the 3 last features of his brother Éric : “Toreros” aka La hora del silencio (drama, 2000) starring Claude Brasseur and Olivier Martinez, “Le serpent” (Thriller, 2007) feature film starring Yvan Attal (The Interpreter, Munich) and Clovis Cornillac and recently “Le Dernier Diamant” (Heist movie, 2014) starring Bérénice Béjo (The Artist, Le passé) and Yvan Attal. Renaud was, like many of the projects he worked on, awarded several times for his work (Georges Delerue Award , Berklee Orchestral Music Composition Award, Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet…)