A key figure in musical creation for the silver screen – with a 40-year career and over 100 film scores – Gabriel Yared was a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury in 2017.
The same year, the Philharmonie de Paris paid tribute to him at the “Week end des Musiques à l’Image”, where he was guest of honor, and where he gave a unique concert accompanied for the first time in France by a symphony orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra.
His most recent works include 2018’s Happy Prince, directed by Rupert Everett, Michel Ocelot’s latest film, Dilili à Paris,and in 2019, Judy,a biopic about Judy Garland, directed by Rupert Gould.
In 2019, Gabriel Yared received the prestigious Max Steiner Prize, awarded by the City of Vienna at the Hollywood in Vienna concert gala, where his music was performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra /ORF and internationally renowned soloists.
More recently, Gabriel Yared composed the music for Jimmy Keyrouz’s first feature film, Broken Keys, which has been selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
The film has been chosen to represent Lebanon at the 2021 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2020, he will also score Eduardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead , a masterful, deeply moving score, a contemporary adaptation of Romain Gary’s admirable novel, La vie devant soi.
On October 24, 2020, the “World Soundtrack Awards” at the Film Fest Gent honored the composer with the Life Time Achievement Award for his body of work.
The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra performed his music at the closing ceremony, which was broadcast online and worldwide.
On January 29, 2021, the “Prix FRANCE MUSIQUE- SACEM de la Musique de Film” paid tribute to Gabriel Yared’s film compositions, with a symphonic concert “de 37°2 au Patient Anglais” at the Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio in Paris, featuring the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and soloists invited by the composer.