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15/06/2020 - 37/5000 Laurent COUSON, multiple talents
At a very young age he graduated successfully from the Music Conservatoire of Tours (France) followed by the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.
He started creating and conducting his own works at Radio France, followed by Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre de la Ville, and even Carnegie Hall in New York.
For five years he served as Associate Music Director of Three Cultures Orchestra and Chorus based in Rabat and Seville. He becomes then assistant conductor for Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, whom he conducts in concert.
From 2015 to 2018, he has been active as Music Director and Conductor for South Asia Symphonic Orchestra and Bangkok Chamber Orchestra, as well as the CEO of South Asia Music Production and Studio in Bangkok, wich have made more than 50 recordings.
As a conductor he directed his own works and classical repertoire with musicians of Radio France, Paris Opera Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestre Lamoureux, National Orchestra of Prague, London Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bulgarian Radio, Bucharest Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Sarrebrucken StadtOrchester, Orchestra of Budapest, European Camerata and Orchestra of Andalusia, Beijing Symphonic Orchestra, Bangkok Symphonic Orchestra…
He also performed as conductor and arranger alongside many famous Jazz and Pop musicians such as Charles Aznavour, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Didier Lockwood, Francis Lai, Régine, Liane Foly, Anggun, Gerard Manset, Michel Fugain, Marc Lavoine, Marianne James, Arielle Dombasle, Sylvie Joly, Louis Bertignac, Cecilia Cara, André Ceccarelli or Jean-Marie Ecay.
His writing talents promptly met his composing skills resulting in the creation and production of several successful Musicals including "Anges et Démons", "Romeos et Juliettes" or "Monsieur Luxure", all of them critically acclaimed. His last creation “The Electro Symphonic Project” became a huge success of Bordeaux National Opera.
Resolutely returning to film music composition, he signed the original scores for a number of feature films including movies by Claude Lelouch, Luc Besson, Xavier Palud or Nae Carenfil, as well as many productions in China, where he gave out over a hundred live performances.
FEW REFERENCES :
CONCERTS
Verdi Requiem Orchestre et Choeurs des trois cultures
Anges et Démons Orchestre de Radio France
Les Contes d’Hoffmann Les Musiciens du Louvre
Fauré/Ravel symphonic works Bangkok Chamber Orchestra
Concertos for horn and orchestra Hervé Joulain – Orchestre National de France
Haydn Concertos pour violoncelle Marc Coppey – Bangkok Chamber Orchestra
Prokofiev Roméo et Juliette Qingdao Symphonic Orchestra
Saint Saens Piano concertos Stalislav Jar - Orchestre National de Moldavie
Sibélius Symphonic Poems South Asia Symphonic Orchestra
Bizet Carmen suite Moldova Symphonic Orchestra
Mendelssohn symphonies Les Musiciens du Louvre
Barber/Elgar/Vaughan Williams works Bangkok Chamber Orchestra
Tchaikovski/Dvorak serenade for strings Bangkok Chamber Orchestra
Prokofiev Cinderella South Asia Symphony Orchestra
The night of German Film Music Sarrebrucken Stadtsorchester
Mélodies-concerto pour piano Didier Lockwood - Orchestre symphonique d’Omsk
Electro Symphonic Project Orchestre National de Bordeaux
MUSICALS
Enfin seul directed by : Laurent Couson
Monsieur Luxure directed by : Jean-Luc Moreau
Roméos et Juliettes directed by : Sebastien Lefrançois
Un Violon sur le toit directed by : Olivier Benezech
La mère qu’on voit danser directed by : Bruno Agati
Le portrait d’un Ange directed by : Jonathan Kerr
Mon Frigo me trompe directed by : Michelange Sarmiento
Zapping directed by : Bruno Agati
Anges et Démons directed by : Jean Michel Fournereau
Zev directed by : Eric Szerman et Benjamin Dupont-Jubien
Vampires directed by : Julien Doumenjou
CINEMA (soundtracks composed and conducted by Laurent Couson)
La vertu des impondérables film by Claude lelouch
I dreamed a dream film by Charles Duan
The new tenant film by Liang Chiang
See you Tomorrow film by Wong Kar Wai (orchestrations and conductor)
Chacun sa vie film by Claude Lelouch
Sentient film by Matthieu Tondeur
Badaitou film by Liang Chang
Lonely Hearts film by Liang Chang
Un plus une film by Claude Lelouch
Let’s get married film by Liu Jang
A City in black and white film by Liang Chang
The Nightingale film by Philippe Muyl
Eros riders film by Hei Ja
Parisiennes film by Slony Slow
Salaud, on t’aime (Bastard, we love you) film by Claude Lelouch
L’automne de Zao (Autumn of Zao) film by Nikolaus Roche-Kresse (Award best film music – Los Angeles)
A l’aveugle (Blindman) film by Xavier palud, produced by Luc Besson (César nomination 2010-best film music)
Closer to the moon film by Nae Carenfil, produced by Michael Fitzgerald (Gopo award 2013-best film music)
D’un film à l’autre film by Claude Lelouch
Ces Amours là (What love may bring) film by Claude Lelouch
The rest is silence film by Nae Carenfil (Gopo Award 2009-best film music)
Le Courage d’aimer (The courage of love) film by Claude Lelouch (Music Academy Award 2006-best film music)
Les Parisiens (The Parisians) film by Claude Lelouch
TELEVISION- COMMERCIALS
Lancôme Commercial movies
Jour Polaire Canal + serie
Xing fu da lian meng tv show for Hebei tv
La Nuit Parisienne film by Isabelle Clarke et Daniel Costelle
Pour vos yeux bleus film by Sergio do Val
Axel Ganz film by Isabelle Clarke
Les sportifs commercial by Michel Boujenah
Ephémère commercials for Alain Afflelou
Habillage musical Arte tv commercials
Corolle for Mattel
La Calèche for Lu
Feuilletons radiophoniques et Habillages radios for France Inter