JEAN MUSY

ROUGH BIOGRAPHY

Musician, Conductor, Composer, Arranger
Jean Musy was born on December 18th, 1947 in Levallois by Paris, and was addicted to music from the very beginning. Or the other way round... He starts playing piano with four years. With 15, he plays in various well-known Parisian jazz clubs. With 19, his precocious talent lets him join Nino Ferrer's band as his organist. He will then conduct Joe Dassin's orchestra and write one year later the arrangements of his "Champs-Elysées", which still remains a world-wide hit. This is just the beginning of a long career which is not ready to end.
Through his talent and labour intensity, and assisted by his absolute pitch, Jean Musy soon becomes one of the most prolific composers/arrangeurs in France.
He will work on more than 600 singles and nearly 200 albums.
He composed and orchestrated soundtracks for over hundred French and international movies, and thus, worked with the most renowned and/or talented directors of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Costa Gavras, Juan Bunuel, Jean-Claude Brisseau and David Hamilton - movies featuring Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharrif, Annie Girardot, Yves Montand, Michel Lonsdale, Rufus, Vanessa Paradis and many more.
He worked with most famous international interpretes such as Charles Aznavour, Moustaki and Mireille Mathieu - just to name few - and Francophonic artists, among them Barbara, Serge Reggiani, Adamo, Dalida, Marie Laforêt, Yves Duteil, Nicole Croisille...
Jean Musy belongs to the most endowed composers of his generation.

NEWS

Among other projects...
- Soundtrack for Denis Malleval's movie: "Les innocents", produced by Neyrac Film and featuring Jacques Frantz, Stephan Freiss, Olivier Marchal, Anne Plumet, Julie Close. Nominated by the "International Festival of TV film", Saint-Tropez 2006. Available on DVD.
- Soundtrack for Jean-Claude Brisseau's movie: "Les anges exterminateurs" out now in the movies!
- Symphonic music on an Arabic tale "son et lumière" produced in the desert and gathering two hundred dancers and extras. It will be performed in Dubai five years long every night starting from November 2006.
- Currently works on a soundtrack for Franck Apprédéris' TV drama on first French national channel France 2: "Nous nous sommes tant haïs".
- Finishes the writing of a musical based on the amazing painter's biography of Marie Bashkirtseff's.
- Release of a unique lyrical CD collection dedicated to novels by Stefan Zweig before the end of this year. Currently featuring French singers and speakers (however, subject to English and German adaptations in the future).
Check out jeanmusy.com (currently available in French language only, English version under construction) and come back soon for further news. À bientôt!