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Jean-Michel Bernard is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind.

ean-Michel Bernard is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind.

La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox, and Fox Music present renowned composer Bernard Herrmann's (Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Psycho, Taxi Driver) original motion picture score to the classic sci-fi drama feature film The Day The Earth Stood Still, starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe, and directed by Robert Wise. Composer Hermann's spellbinding score, along with the film itself, stands the test of time as a brilliant, relevant work! Attractive and informative CD booklet contains both classic liner notes from previous releases and exclusive, new notes.

Venez vivre un moment de musique inoubliable avec le pianiste-compositeur virtuose Jean-Michel Bernard, qualifié par Ray Charles de "genius".

David Bernard is an American orchestral conductor.

American composer Bernard Herrmann's last film score was for director Martin Scorsese's (and writer Paul Schrader's) deeply unsettling, Dostoyevskian film noir, Taxi Driver–a portrait of urban alienation that's never been matched. In the slow-motion images of New York City as Dante's Inferno (steam rising into the air to suggest the hellfire below), the orchestral music is ominous and dissonant, a rumble and crash that rises up from the underworld. But Herrmann's other major motif is a slinky, smoldering sax theme that suggests the forbidden pleasures of big-city nightlife–bars and clubs, prostitutes and porno palaces–things Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) may himself indulge in, but that give him no pleasure. (In fact, they disgust him.) The soundtrack features a track in which Herrmann's music is played behind bits and pieces of narration from Travis's "diary": "Some day a real rain will come along and sweep all the scum off the streets." Unforgettable music, unforgettable movie. –Jim Emerson

Movie Set is the newest instrumental album by celebrated French pianist and composer Jean-Michel Bernard, released on June 20, 2025, via Sony Masterworks (Japan). The album features 19 cinematic tracks that blend Bernard’s jazz-inflected piano style with a film score sensibility. Highlights include “Losing a Puppy,” “Message to Ray,” “Colored Sky,” and “Ange et Gabrielle,” with “The Roundup” featured in promotional materials. Bernard, known for his scores to La Science des rêves, Hugo Cabret, and The Life Aquatic, continues to explore richly emotional and visually evocative music. Movie Set offers a deeply atmospheric listening experience, crafted as if scoring an imaginary film through solo and ensemble arrangements.

Gerhild Romberger, Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Chorus and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra featuring Augsburger Domsingknaben, Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Juliane Banse (soprano)

Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two. When he was 14, he was awarded first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. At 19, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, whilst pursuing a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent jazz artists including Wild Bill Davis, Jimmy Woode (Duke Ellington's bassist) and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis.

Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two. When he was 14, he was awarded first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. At 19, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, whilst pursuing a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent jazz artists including Wild Bill Davis, Jimmy Woode (Duke Ellington's bassist) and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis.