Stéphane Moucha

Stéphane Moucha (* 1968 in Most , Czechoslovakia ) is a French musician and composer .

Life

Stéphane Moucha was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968. His parents fled the country during the Prague Spring and found asylum in France. At the age of five he learned the violin . He studied composition , orchestration and harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris . He then found work with the French composer Gabriel Yared .

Moucha made his debut as a film composer in 1996 with the fantasy film All Too Loud Loneliness, directed by Véra Caïs . He has been a regular film composer since 2000. Moucha gained international fame, especially for the music on the two German films The Lives of Others and The Foreigners . With Yared, he received a nomination at the 2006 German Film Prize for Best Film Music and at the European Film Prize for Best Film Music . Together with Richter, he won the German Film Critics' Prize for Die Fremde in 2010 with Max Richter .

personal data
SURNAME	Moucha, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Most , Czechoslovakia