Born in 1974, Cyrille Aufort
started his career as an arranger, working for many artists such as
Michel Sardou, Michel Fugain, Serge Lama, Charles Aznavour, Philippe
Lavil, Bernard Lavilliers and others. Winner of many prizes from
both the Paris and Lyon Music Academies, Cyrille Aufort first
started composing music for the theater, short films and animation
films before working extensively in the cinema. He also worked
as an orchestrator for movie soundracks such as "Massai,
les guerriers de la pluie", "San Antonio", "Blueberry", "Hostage",
"L'odyssée de l'espece", "Ah, si j'étais riche", "Le cactus". The
first film for which he composed music was "9A" directed by Reza
Rezai. He wrote music for documentaries, TV advertising and short
films.
In 2006, he composed the
original music for 9A directed by Reza Rezai and for HELL directed
by Bruno Chiche. He has also written for TV programmer such as La
MAISON TELLIER and CET ETE LA directed by Elisabeth
Rappeneau.
Since 2009, Cyrille Aufort
composed music for many feature films like SPLICE (Vincenzo Natali)
L'EMPIRE DU MILIEU DU SUD (The Empire of mid-south) a film directed
by Jacques Perrin and Eric Deroo. He also signed the score of Yann
Samuell's called L'AGE DE RAISON (Age of reason), produced by
Nord-Ouest Films.
In 2011, he composed the music
for OMBLINE directed by Stephane Cazes. Ombline has met with
critical success, receiving the Ecran Junior Award at Cannes
Festival 2012. Cyrille has been nominated for the prestigious
"France Musique – SACEM" Award in 2011, recognizing each year the
best film music composers in France.
Most recently in 2012, Cyrille
Aufort continued with A ROYAL AFFAIR (awarded Silver Bear for best
main actor and best scenario at the Berlinade 2012), directed by
Nicolaj Arcel, an original soundtrack co-composed with Gabriel
Yared.
He has scored Luc Jacquet's new
feature film, THE ICE AND THE SKY in 2015, as well as Yann Gozlan
next film A PERFECT MAN.