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Oscar winner gets classical management

Oscar winner gets classical management

The French film composer Alexandre Desplat has signed with HarrisonParrott for global classical management.

Desplat, 62, has been involved in 130 films, winning Academy Awards for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017).

In recent seasons, he has composed new works for Lang Lang, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Emmanuel Pahud, the latter performing his Pelléas et Mélisande, a symphonie concertante for flute and orchestra (which was also later released on Warner Classics with Orchestre National de France). In 2020, his first opera En Silence was premiered in Luxembourg, Paris and Japan.

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