Michel Portal
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Michel Portal (born November 25, 1935 in Bayonne, France) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He also studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux. [1]
During August 1969 he played on several of the recordings in Stockhausen's cycle of intuitive works, Aus den Sieben Tagen.
He might be noted most for film music and has won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film three times. His first win was for the music to The Return of Martin Guerre. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be one of the architects of modern European jazz.
In 1969 he co-founded the Free Improvisation group New Phonic Art with Vinko Globokar, Jean-Pierre Drouet and Carlos Roque Alsina.
[edit] References
- ^ Free Improvisation: New Phonic Art 1973, Deutsche Grammophon, 1974, p. 4
[edit] External links
- Michel Portal at the Internet Movie Database
- Michel Portal - All About Jazz
- Michel Portal Official Website, Dreyfus Records
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