Michel Portal
Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Portal was born in Bayonne on 27 November 1935. His family was musical and there were several instruments in his house when he was growing up. His interest in jazz began after hearing it on the radio after World War II. He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris and conducting with Pierre Dervaux.
Portal "gained experience in light music with the bandleaders Henri Rossotti and (in Spain in 1958) Perez Prado, as well as with the drummer Benny Bennett (1960), Raymond Fonsèque (1963), Aimé Barelli, and, for many years, the singer Claude Nougaro". Portal co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art. During 1969, Portal played on a recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen.
Portal began scoring music for films in the 1980s. He has won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film three times.
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Michel Portal @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2021
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Le Professeur
2012 · Original Music Composer
Here Below
2012 · Music
Cigarettes et bas nylons
2010 · Original Music Composer
Lies
2010 · Original Music Composer
The Girl from the Chartreuse
2005 · Original Music Composer
Le porteur de cartable
2003 · Sound
Un fils de notre temps
2003 · Original Music Composer
Jacques Lacan, la psychanalyse réinventée
2001 · Original Music Composer
Passionnément
2000 · Original Music Composer
The Comedian
1997 · Original Music Composer
Buud Yam
1997 · Original Music Composer
The Colors of the Devil
1997 · Original Music Composer
Le Concerto de Mozart
1997 · Himself
1914 the Glorious Summer
1996 · Original Music Composer
Doctor Semmelweis
1995 · Music
The Machine
1994 · Original Music Composer
Eugénie Grandet
1994 · Original Music Composer
The Return of Casanova
1992 · Original Music Composer
Au Sud du Sud
1992 · Music
Alcyon
1990 · Music
Dr. Petiot
1990 · Original Music Composer
Ke arteko egunak
1990 · Original Music Composer
Adventure of Catherine C.
1990 · Original Music Composer
Angels
1990 · Original Music Composer
Children of Chaos
1989 · Original Music Composer
À corps et à cris
1989 · Music
A Tale of the Wind
1989 · Music
The Mortal Fortune
1989 · Original Music Composer
No Harm Intended
1988 · Original Music Composer
Sorceress
1987 · Original Music Composer, Musician
Field of Honor
1987 · Music
Yeelen
1987 · Original Music Composer
Milan noir
1987 · Original Music Composer
Max My Love
1986 · Original Music Composer
Fou comme l'oiseau
1983 · Music
Paradise for All
1982 · Musician
The Return of Martin Guerre
1982 · Original Music Composer
Short Memory
1982 · Original Music Composer
Café Plongeoir
1982 · Original Music Composer
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Original Music Composer
The Red Shade
1981 · Music
Le Beau Monde
1981 · Music
See Here My Love
1979 · Music
The Dogs
1979 · Original Music Composer
Adoption
1979 · Original Music Composer
Surreal Estate
1976 · Original Music Composer
La Cecilia
1976 · Music
Tahia Ya Didou !
1971 · Music
The Bamboo Incident
1970 · Original Music Composer
Les Trois Cousins
1970 · Music
A Question of Rape
1967 · Music
Paris Blues
1961 · Musician (uncredited)
A few notes on freedom
· Lui-même
Icelandic Fisherman
· Music
