Vladimir Cosma - Topic

Vladimir Cosma was born April 13th 1940 in Bucarest, Romania, into a family of musicians.

He arrived in Paris in 1963 and in 1968. He has since composed more than four hundred scores for feature films and TV series.

Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l’As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Un Eléphant ça trompe énormément, le Père Noël est une ordure, L’Etudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le Jaguar, Le Plus Beau métier du monde, Le Dîner de Cons, Le Placard…

Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions.

Michel Strogoff, Les Aventures de David Balfour (Kidnapped), L’Amour en héritage(Mistral’s Daughter), Chateauvallon, Les Grandes Familles, ....

Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine), songs (for Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand…), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion « Syrinx », pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet…)