Max Richter

At the crossroads of electronic music and the contemporary minimalist movement, composer Max Richter has enjoyed widespread international success with several chart-topping albums. Born in Hamelin, Germany, on March 22, 1966, he founded the group Piano Circus in 1989, then collaborated with Future Sound of London and Roni Size. After the experimental album Memoryhouse (2002), conceived with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Max Richter flourished in a wide variety of projects. As a film composer, he created the score for Waltz with Bashir, followed by other soundtracks including Impardonnables (2010), The Lunchbox (2013) and La French (2015). At the same time, he has been working on his own works, which are featured on the albums 24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008) and Infra (2010). In 2012, he revisited Vivaldi's Four Seasons concertos for Deutsche Grammophon's Recomposed Series . 2015 saw the release of an eight-hour suite entitled Sleep, performed in Berlin and released on disc in its full and abridged versions(From Sleep). 2017 sees the release of Out of the Dark Room, a compilation of various film scores. The composer focuses on this activity, successively signing scores for ballet(Three Worlds - Music from Woolf Works), films or series Taboo, Henry May Long (2017), White Boy Rick, Never Look Away and Mary Queen of Scots (2018). After the score for the film Ad Astra (2019) comes his new original piece Voices (2020), focusing on the vocal realm, both spoken and sung. In 2022, ten years after his first recomposition experiment, Max Richter teams up with violinist Elena Urioste and the Chineke! Orchestra for a new version entitled The New Four Seasons. Between commissions from film and television and his own works, the prolific composer enriched his catalog with the soundtracks to the film Spaceman, the series The Veil and the album In a Landscape, released in 2024. In a Landscape is a classic in the charts, reaching No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 1 in the U.K. and France.