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Nicolas Errèra
Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn May 21, 1967 (58 years)
Nicolas Errèra (born 21 May 1967) is a French composer and musician working all over the world. Co-founder of innovatives electronics groups Grand Popo Football Club and Rouge Rouge, he also composes soundtracks for films and television.
Nicolas Errèra comes from a family of artists. An only child, his father is a playwright and his mother a set designer. He was born in Paris.
He majored in science to attain his baccalaureate and also studied philosophy. When he was a teenager he joined the group of the English theatre director Peter Brook, under whom he featured in 3 plays. Alongside his studies he took lessons in piano and composing at the École normale de musique de Paris, studying under Serge Petigirard (piano) and Max Deutsch (composing). Here he was awarded his first prize for composing. He also studied Harmony and Counterpoint with the composer Jeannine Richer.
In 1998 he set up the electro pop group Grand Popo Football Club and in 2002 he created the group Rouge Rouge. Both groups went on to be associated with the French touch
He has written music for more than 60 French and international films, including Au nom de ma fille, Sleepless Night[4] by Frédéric Jardin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Sticky Fingers by the Canadian filmmaker Ken Scott, The Lookout by the Italian director Michele Placido. Nocturna by Spain's Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia, and The Butterfly with Michel Serrault. In 2008 the success in China of the film The Butterfly (which was watched by more than 10 million people) led to a meeting with the Hong Kong director Benny Chan. This paved the way for him to work in Asian movies, as he composed the soundtracks for three of Chan's films – The White Storm, Shaolin and Connected. In 2015, he composed the music for Mountain Cry directed by Larry Yang (closing film at Busan International Film Festival). In 2018, he composed the music for the movie Hidden Man directed by Jiang Wen. Hidden Man has been chosen by China as its nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
In 2022 he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for "Drop the Rock", a song he cowrote with Craig Walker for the 2021 film Goodbye Happiness (Au revoir le bonheur).
As with his work for the cinema, Errèra wrote the music for fictional TV series such as XIII: The Conspiracy, XIII: The Series the French-Canadian series adapted from the graphic novels by William Vance and Jean Van Hamme. He also wrote music for television movies for Alain Tasma, and many more. In 2017 Ne m'abandonne pas won an International Emmy Awards Best TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2006 Errèra met the photographer and director Jean-Baptiste Mondino, with whom he regularly collaborates on music for promotional films for prestigious brands (including (Yves Saint Laruent, Chanel, Christian Dior SE, Givenchy and many more). ...
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Nicolas Errèra comes from a family of artists. An only child, his father is a playwright and his mother a set designer. He was born in Paris.
He majored in science to attain his baccalaureate and also studied philosophy. When he was a teenager he joined the group of the English theatre director Peter Brook, under whom he featured in 3 plays. Alongside his studies he took lessons in piano and composing at the École normale de musique de Paris, studying under Serge Petigirard (piano) and Max Deutsch (composing). Here he was awarded his first prize for composing. He also studied Harmony and Counterpoint with the composer Jeannine Richer.
In 1998 he set up the electro pop group Grand Popo Football Club and in 2002 he created the group Rouge Rouge. Both groups went on to be associated with the French touch
He has written music for more than 60 French and international films, including Au nom de ma fille, Sleepless Night[4] by Frédéric Jardin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Sticky Fingers by the Canadian filmmaker Ken Scott, The Lookout by the Italian director Michele Placido. Nocturna by Spain's Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia, and The Butterfly with Michel Serrault. In 2008 the success in China of the film The Butterfly (which was watched by more than 10 million people) led to a meeting with the Hong Kong director Benny Chan. This paved the way for him to work in Asian movies, as he composed the soundtracks for three of Chan's films – The White Storm, Shaolin and Connected. In 2015, he composed the music for Mountain Cry directed by Larry Yang (closing film at Busan International Film Festival). In 2018, he composed the music for the movie Hidden Man directed by Jiang Wen. Hidden Man has been chosen by China as its nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
In 2022 he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for "Drop the Rock", a song he cowrote with Craig Walker for the 2021 film Goodbye Happiness (Au revoir le bonheur).
As with his work for the cinema, Errèra wrote the music for fictional TV series such as XIII: The Conspiracy, XIII: The Series the French-Canadian series adapted from the graphic novels by William Vance and Jean Van Hamme. He also wrote music for television movies for Alain Tasma, and many more. In 2017 Ne m'abandonne pas won an International Emmy Awards Best TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2006 Errèra met the photographer and director Jean-Baptiste Mondino, with whom he regularly collaborates on music for promotional films for prestigious brands (including (Yves Saint Laruent, Chanel, Christian Dior SE, Givenchy and many more). ...
Source: Article "Nicolas Errèra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Nicolas Errèra Filmography
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Tout pour Agnès (TV Series) |
| 2021 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | |
| 2008 | XIII: The Conspiracy (TV Series) |
| 2004 |
| 2011 | Perfect Baby · as Street Musician |
| 2008 | Me Two · as Le Dj Soirée Orlando |
| 2006 | The Office (FR) (TV Series) · as Dj Palm Beach #2 |
| 2023 | Beau Geste (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2026 | Alter Ego · as Composer |
| 2025 | The Shadow's Edge · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | When He Comes Back · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | Once Upon My Mother · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Survive · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Serpent's Path · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Tout le monde ment 2 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Polar Rescue · as Composer |
| 2021 | Goodbye Happiness · as Composer |
| 2021 | Emma Bovary · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Algiers Confidential (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Raging Fire · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Tiger Robbers · as Composer |
| 2020 | Something to Hide (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | Bad Boy · as Composer |
| 2019 | Adoring · as Composer |
| 2019 | D'un monde à l'autre · as Composer |
| 2019 | After The Crash (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2018 | The Orphanage · as Composer |
| 2018 | War on Beasts (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Hidden Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Death in the Soul · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Another Shot · as Composer |
| 2016 | The Confession · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Kalinka · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Don't Leave Me · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Au nom du fils · as Composer |
| 2014 | Blood Red · as Composer |
| 2013 | The White Storm · as Composer |
| 2013 | The Source (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Alias Caracalla (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | The Lookout · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Sleepless Night · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | XIII (2011) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2011 | Shaolin · as Composer |
| 2009 | Divorces! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Sticky Fingers · as Composer |
| 2008 | Connected · as Composer |
| 2008 | Par suite d'un arrêt de travail... · as Composer |
| 2008 | Me Two · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Nocturna · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Agathe contre Agathe · as Composer |
| 2006 | The Office (FR) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2005 | Au suivant! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Encounter In An Unknown Land (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2003 | The Over-Eater · as Composer |
| 2002 | The Butterfly · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Slice of Life · as Composer |
| 2002 | Cravate club · as Composer |
| 2002 | Shooting Stars · as Composer |
| 2000 | A Head for Business · as Composer |
| 2000 | Les frères Soeur · as Composer |
| 1999 | Tout baigne! · as Composer |
| 1994 | Personne ne m'aime · as Co-Writer |
| 1984 | Long Live Women! · as Composer |