Gabriel Yared – The English Patient Piano Solo selections

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Who is Gabriel Yared?

Gabriel Yared is an Oscar-winning Lebanese-French composer celebrated for his emotionally rich and lushly orchestrated film scores. He is most widely recognized for his acclaimed collaborations with director Anthony Minghella, notably winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The English Patient (1996).

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Major Career Highlights

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• Anthony Minghella Collaborations: Won an Oscar, Grammy, and BAFTA for The English Patient. He also earned Oscar nominations for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003).
• French Cinema Staples: Composed iconic, highly influential French soundtracks including Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) and Camille Claudel.
• Studio Fanfare: Composed the iconic 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures orchestral fanfare theme.
• Diverse Artistry: Extends his talent beyond film to ballet choreography music and early career pop arrangements for legendary artists like Charles Aznavour.

Signature Style and Philosophy

Yared is largely self-taught, allowing him to seamlessly blend classical traditions, jazz influences, and electronic textures. He frequently integrates haunting melodies with rich string arrangements to heighten the psychological depth of film narratives.

Film scores

Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella. His first collaboration with Minghella was the 1996 film The English Patient, which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis.

Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including Betty Blue (1986), Map of the Human Heart (1992), City of Angels (1998), Message in a Bottle (1999), Autumn in New York (2000), The Next Best Thing (2000), Possession (2002), and Bon Voyage (2003). He had a notable collaboration with René Laloux in the late 1980s on Gandahar and How Wang-fo was saved produced at the SEK Studio in North Korea.

Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was tapped to compose the score for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. However, he was eventually replaced on the project by Atli Örvarsson.

Notable Discography

You can explore his extensive discography on his Spotify Artist Profile or sample curated collections on the Apple Music Gabriel Yared Essentials Playlist. Key soundtracks include:

• Betty Blue (1986)
• The Lover (1992)
• The English Patient (1996)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• The Life Ahead (2020)

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Selected filmography

• Every Man for Himself (1980) Music
• Little Wars (1982) Music
• The Moon in the Gutter (1983) Music
• Hanna K. (1983)
• Dangerous Moves (1984) Music
• Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!! (1985) Music
• 37°2 le matin [Betty Blue] (1986) Music
• Beyond Therapy (1987) Music
• Agent trouble (1987) Music
• The Veiled Man (1987) Music
• Gandahar (1987) Music (not in US dubbed version Light Years)
• Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale (1988)
• Clean and Sober (1988) Music
• Camille Claudel (1988) Music
• Tennessee Waltz (Tennessee Nights) (1989)
• Romero (1989) Music
• Tatie Danielle (1990) Music and theme song "The Complaint of the Old Bitch" (sung by Catherine Ringer)
• Les 1001 Nuits (1990) Music
• Vincent & Theo (1990) Music
• The King's Whore (1990) Music
• L'Amant [The Lover] (1992) Music
• Map of the Human Heart (1992) Music
• IP5: L'île aux pachydermes (IP5: The Island of Pachyderms) (1992)
• La Fille de l'air (1992) Music
• Wings of Courage (1995)
• The English Patient (1996) Original Music
• City of Angels (1998) Music and Orchestrations
• Message in a Bottle (1999) Music and Orchestrations
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music, Orchestrations and songs
• The Next Best Thing (2000) Music, Conductor and Orchestrations
• Autumn in New York (2000) Composed and Conductor
• Lisa (2001)
• Possession (2002) Composer, Conductor and Orchestrations
• The One and Only (2002)
• Bon voyage (2003) Music
• Sylvia (2003) Composer
• Cold Mountain (2003) Composed and Orchestrations
• Shall We Dance? (2004) Music
• Troy (2004) Composed and Orchestrated (Music Rejected from Final Film)
• Das Leben der Anderen (2006) Music
• Azur and Asmar (2006) Music
• Breaking and Entering (2006) Music (with Underworld)
• 1408 (2007) Music
• A Room with a View (2007)
• Adam Resurrected (2008)
• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) Original music
• The Hedgehog (2009) Original music
• Amelia (2009) Original music
• The Tourist (2010) Original music - Score rejected; replaced by James Newton Howard. The movie does carry his track "Dance in F"
• In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) Original music
• A Royal Affair (2012) Co-composed with Cyrille Aufort
• Haute Cuisine (French original title: Les Saveurs du Palais) (2012) Original music
• Belle du Seigneur (2012) Original Music
• Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) (2013)
• A Promise (2013)
• In Secret (also known as Thérèse) (2013)
• The Prophet (2014) Original music
• By the Sea (2015) Original music
• Chocolat (2016)
• It's Only the End of the World (2016)
• The Promise (2016)
• If You Saw His Heart (Si tu voyais son coeur) (2017)
• The Happy Prince (2018)
• Dilili in Paris (2018)
• The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018)
• Judy (2019)
• The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) (2020)
• Scarlet (L'envol) (2022)
• Just the Two of Us (2023) Original music

Awards and nominations

Yared has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score on three occasions. He won for The English Patient in 1996. He was also nominated for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003), but lost to John Corigliano and Howard Shore, respectively. He has also received three Golden Globe and three BAFTA nominations for the same films, and won both awards for The English Patient.

He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, again winning for The English Patient.

Yared has been honored with numerous career achievement awards; Film Fest Gent – Joseph Plateau Honorary Award (2001), Prix France Musique-Sacem de la musique de film (2008), European Film Awards – European Achievement in World Cinema (2010), Prix Henri-Langlois (2016), Dubai International Film Festival – Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Prix UCMF (Union des compositeurs de musiques de films) – Prix Hommage (2019), Hollywood in Vienna – Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award (2019), Festival du Cinéma et Musique de Film de La Baule – Golden Ibis Award (Honorary Award): Ibis d’Or d’Honneur (2019), World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement (2020) and Les Plumes d’Or (hosted by APE, Association de la Presse Etrangère & UJC, Union des Journalistes de Cinéma) – Grand Prix de la Mémoire du Cinéma (2024).