Armand Amar
Armand Amar (born 1953 in Jerusalem (Israel)) is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Original Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu).
Armand Amar
- Name
- Armand Amar
- Born
- 1953
- Birthplace
- Jerusalem
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Israel · France
- Fields
- film score · music · ballet
- Honours
- Amanda Award for Best Score
- Languages
- French
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Armand Amar (born 1953 in Jerusalem (Israel)) is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Original Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu).
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Biography
Biography
Amar worked across composer and film score composer. This article rests on 6 catalogued compositions and 70 issued recordings drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Armand Amar • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — Jerusalem • Genre — * Film score • contemporary classical • world • ambient • Occupation — Composer • Years Active — 1994–present • Label — * Naïve • Long Distance • Femios • Universal • Website — armandamar.com/
Life and career
Life and career
Armand Amar is a French composer living in Paris. In 1968, he began playing the congas. He also practiced the tabla and the zarb in the following years. In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance. His works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as The Trail, Days of Glory, Live and Become, The First Cry, Earth from Above, Bab'Aziz and Home. Since Amen., he has also collaborated with Costa-Gavras scoring all of his subsequent films. He founded the label Long Distance in 1994 with his partners Alain Weber and Peter Gabriel.
Television
Television
• 1997: Miracle in the Eldorado (Philippe Niang) • 2006: Earth from Above (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) • 2007: Marie Humbert, the secret of a parent (Marc Angelo) • 2009: Great Reporters (Gilles de Maistre) • 2009: London River (Rachid Bouchareb) • 2010: Marion Mazzano (Marc Angelo) • 2011: Voir le pays du matin calme (Gilles de Maistre) • 2013: Crime d'état (Pierre Aknine) • 2014: Ce soir je vais tuer l'assassin de mon fils (Pierre Aknine) • 2014: Jusqu'au dernier (François Velle) • 2015: No Second Chance (François Velle)
Other creations
Other creations
• 1976 à 1991: musiques de ballet pour le chorégraphe sud-africain Peter Goss • 1976: "Entre l'air et l'eau" au théâtre des Champs-Élysées, puis est présentée au Festival d'Avignon et au Festival d'Apt. • 1978: "Sable mouvant" est créé au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. • 1979: "A transformation mystery" au Théâtre de la Bastille puis au Festival de Vienne. • 1980: "Quatuor et Side by side" au Théâtre Mogador • 1981: "Marécage" au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Festival de Montpellier, Festival de Toulon, Festival d'Annecy, Festival de la Culture Juive. • 1982: "Below and Above"; créé dans le cadre du Festival des Bouffes du Nord. • 1983: "L'aube portée par les ailes du vent"; Théâtre de la porte Saint-Martin – Festival de Turin. • 1984: "Ties" pour le Théâtre des Amandiers à Nanterre • 1985: "Seajoy et Gamos" dans le cadre du Festival d'Automne au Centre Georges Pompidou • 1986: "Aller-retour" et "Y"; Festival de Turin, Tournées en Argentine, Espagne, Italie, Allemagne. • 1987: "Steellight"; Biennale du Val-de-Marne. • 1988: "Le Pouvoir du silence"; Festival Vignale Danza. • 1989: "Circumanbulatoire" à Choisy-le-Roi. Tournées en Italie et à la Réunion. • 1990: "Le Poids des anges"; Festival de Caseres. • 1991: "Arbre de pluie"; Allemagne, Italie, Belgique... • 1987 à 1998: Musiques pour des spectacles de la Cathédrale d'Images aux Baux-de-Provence (ces 5 spectacles ont été réalisés par Hans-Walter Müller): • 1987: Hymne à la Vie • 1992: Les Portes de l'Europe • 1993: Les Forêts de l'Espoir • 1995: L'Or des Alpilles • 1997: Images Paroles du Monde • 1992: "The Other Side" au Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris • 1994 à 1996: "Nomades Dance" et "Paroles d'Anges" avec les musiciens du Rajasthan et les gitans de Perpignan pour Montpellier danse et la biennale de Lyon • 1997 à 2001: création pour Philippe Talard au théâtre national de Mannheim • 2005: Inanna, un ballet de Carolyn Carlson • 2006: Souviens toi de Marie-Claude Pietragalla et Julien Derouault • 2009: Marco Polo de Marie-Claude Pietragalla et Julien Derouault • 2010: Bande annonce du Printemps du cinéma (extrait de la bande son du film The First Cry). • 2010: Bande annonce de La rentrée du cinéma (extrait de la bande son du film La Jeune Fille et les Loups). • 2011: Leylâ et Majnűn, ou l'amour mystique; oratorio Mundi pour 40 musiciens et chanteurs. Il est interprété au Festival de Fès des Musiques Sacrées du Monde le 3 juin 2011 et à la Salle Pleyel en avril 2014. • 2014: Falen pour le Ballet Boy, danse • 2014: Steel par Russel Maliphant, danse • 2014: pixel par Mourad Merzouki, danse
Nominations
Nominations
• 2003: César Award for Best Original Music for Amen. (Costa-Gavras) • 2006: César Award for Best Original Music for Live and Become (Radu Mihăileanu) • 2007: César Award for Best Original Music for Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb) • 2007: IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film for The First Cry (Gilles de Maistre) • 2015: IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary for Human (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
Origins
Origins
Armand Amar was born on 1 January 1953 in Jerusalem. Amar held the nationality of Israel and France.
Compositions
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 6 further compositions are catalogued under Amar's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Underwater — I Come from the Ocean — Coral Tree
Films and moving-image works, 2002–2024
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works, 2002–2024
These entries are catalogued as moving-image works. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 32 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 58 titles in all, from 2002 to 2024. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
56 films carry dates between 2002 and 2024
The run opens with Amen. And closes with Last Breath
Amen
2002
Earth from Above
2004
The Sleeping Child
2004
Zohre & Manouchehr
2004
Live and Become
2005
The Ax
2005
Bab'Aziz
2005
Blame It on Fidel
2006
The Colonel
2006
Days of Glory
2006
The complete catalogue · 58
56 films carry dates between 2002 and 2024
The run opens with Amen. And closes with Last Breath
Amen
2002
Earth from Above
2004
The Sleeping Child
2004
Zohre & Manouchehr
2004
Live and Become
2005
The Ax
2005
Bab'Aziz
2005
Blame It on Fidel
2006
The Colonel
2006
Days of Glory
2006
La piste
2006
Father's Footsteps
2007
Cartouches Gauloises
2007
Sagan
2008
La Jeune Fille et les Loups
2008
Le Concert
2009
Eden Is West
2009
London River
2009
Home
2009
The Last Hunter
2010
Outside the Law
2010
Comme les cinq doigts de la main
2010
Invasive
2010
The Source
2011
Free Men
2011
Tu seras mon fils
2011
What the Day Owes the Night
2012
Le Capital
2012
Planet Ocean
2012
The Story of Mojang
2012
My Sweet Orange Tree
2012
Né quelque part
2013
Pour une femme
2013
Belle and Sebastian
2013
Crime d'État
2013
A Thousand Times Good Night
2013
The Nightingale
2013
24 Days
2014
Red Lines
2014
Algeria from above
2015
Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
2015
Human
2015
L'Odeur de la mandarine
2015
Braqueurs
2015
The History of Love
2016
Verdon Secret 3D
2016
A Bag of Marbles
2017
Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life
2017
Mia and the White Lion
2018
Best Intentions
2018
Whispering Sands
2018
De Gaulle, l’éclat et le secret
2020
Vicky and Her Mystery
2021
Spread Your Wings
2021
Autumn and the Black Jaguar
2024
Last Breath
2024
Films
Films
• 2002: Amen. by Costa-Gavras • 2004: Earth from Above by Renaud Delourme • 2004: Tabous (Zohre & Manouchehr) by Mitra Farahani • 2005: Live and Become by Radu Mihăileanu • 2005: The Axe by Costa-Gavras • 2006: La Piste by Éric Valli • 2006: Bab'Aziz by Nacer Khémir • 2006: Days of Glory by Rachid Bouchareb • 2006: Blame It on Fidel by Julie Gavras • 2007: Summer of '62 by Mehdi Charef • 2007: The Colonel by Laurent Herbiet • 2007: The First Cry by Gilles de Maistre • 2007: Comme ton père by Marco Carmel • 2008: La Jeune Fille et les Loups by Gilles Legrand • 2008: Sagan by Diane Kurys • 2009: Welcome by Philippe Lioret • 2009: Eden Is West by Costa-Gavras • 2009: Moi, Van Gogh by Peter Knapp and François Bertrand • 2009: Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand • 2009: Le Concert by Radu Mihăileanu • 2009: London River de Rachid Bouchareb • 2010: Comme les cinq doigts de la main by Alexandre Arcady • 2010: Ao: The Last Hunter by Jacques Malaterre • 2010: Outside the Law by Rachid Bouchareb • 2011: You Will Be My Son by Gilles Legrand • 2011: Free Men by Ismaël Ferroukhi • 2011: The Source by Radu Mihăileanu • 2012: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit by Alexandre Arcady • 2012: Capital by Costa-Gavras • 2012: Mon bel oranger by Marcos Bernstein • 2012: Planet Ocean by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot • 2012: Amazonia Eterna by Belisario Franca • 2013: For a Woman by Diane Kurys • 2013: Belle and Sebastian by Nicolas Vanier • 2013: A Thousand Times Good Night by Erik Poppe • 2014: Red Line by Andrea Kalinl • 2014: The Nightingale by Philippe Muyl • 2014: 24 Days by Alexandre Arcady • 2014: Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy by Stéphanie Valloatto • 2015: L'Odeur de la mandarine by Gilles Legrand • 2015: Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues by Christian Dugay • 2015: Human by Yann Arthus-Bertrand • 2015: Lake Como by Yann Arthus-Bertrand • 2016: The History of Love by Radu Mihăileanu • 2017: L'école buissonnière by Nicolas Vanier • 2018: Mia and the White Lion by Gilles de Maistre • 2018: Belle and Sebastien: Friends for Life by Clovis Cornillac
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
2 further films are catalogued under Amar's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
No Second Chance
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Amar's work has been published in sound, not what Amar made. 70 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1996 to 2026. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2010s are the densest decade of publication, with 25 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
La Traversée
1998
Les 7 papillons
2022
Belle et Sébastien: L'aventure continue
2015
Le couperet
2005
Va, vis et deviens
2005
Rétrospective
2008
Images of Dance
Fugueuse
2021
L'enfant du désert
2026
Moving Music
2007
Ikat
2001
Chamanes
1999
Paroles D'Anges
2003
Vertikal
2018
Resist
2014
Belle et Sébastien (Bande originale du film)
2013
Vu du ciel
2006
Le Premier Cri
2007
Leyla et Majnûn
2014
Le dernier Néandertal
2010
Sekai
2000
Indigènes
2006
Ce Que Le Jour Doit à La Nuit
2012
Percussion For Dance
2002
Songs From a World Apart
2006
Barbès, little Algérie
2025
Nomad's Dance 3 (Music For Dances Class)
2006
La Source Des Femmes
2011
Images
1997
Un sac de billes
2017
Music From Morocco
Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2020
L'école buissonnière
2018
L'histoire de l'amour
2016
La Terre vue du ciel
2004
Moi, Van Gogh
2009
My Sweet Orange Tree & Amazonia Eterna (Original Soundtrack)
2013
Bab' Azîz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
2006
Moon le panda
2025
Mystère
2021
Planet Ocean (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2013
Hors-la-loi
2010
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010
Nomad’s Dance (Music for Dances Class)
1996
Vivre avec les loups
2024
Nomad's Dance 2 (Music For Dances Class)
1999
Exil
2025
Autumn And The Black Jaguar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2024
The Wolf and the Lion
2021
Marco Polo
2009
Pixel
2015
Belle et Sébastien 3: Le dernier chapitre
2018
A Sea for All
2013
Marche avec les loups
2020
Le Couperet / Amen
2005
Primary material
Documents and archives
institutional register
- VIAF cluster 2692307 for Armand Amar, aggregating national library name authorities.
General reference · VIAF
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2659446: Armand Amar
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Armand Amar”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Awards
• 2009: IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film for Home (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) • 2010: Gopo Award for Best Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu) • 2010: César Award for Best Original Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu) • 2014: Amanda Award for Best Score for A Thousand Times Good Night (Erik Poppe)
Authority records
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Deming, Mark. Artist Biography. AllMusic.
- 2.Armand Aman Discography. Discogs.com.
- 3.Rencontre avec Armand Amar – "Le pouvoir mystique de la musique me fascine" – Littérature, musiques, arts, BD, albums jeunesse, sorties culturelles…. 2024-02-16.
- 4.Between sound and image. Haaretz.
- 5.César 2010 : Le César de la meilleure musique est attribué à Armand Amar pour Le Concert. Premiere.fr. 2015-09-17.
- 6.Armand Amar.
- 7.Films/tv – PLANET OCEAN – Films/tv – Films/tv – Yann Arthus-Bertrand. www.yannarthusbertrand.org.
- 8.Lettre d'information Film Documentaire. www.film-documentaire.fr.
- 9.Films/tv – HUMAN – Films/tv – Films/tv – Yann Arthus-Bertrand. www.yannarthusbertrand.org.
- 10.TEDxLakeComo on YouTube. Lake Como seen by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
- 11.VISIT'WORLD - Leylâ et Majnûn ou l'amour Mystique.
- 12.leconomiste.com. Festival de Fès des Musiques sacrées: Un grand succès dès l'ouverture (en francés). 6 June 2011.
- 13.Home. IMDb.
- 14.Le concert. IMDb.
- 15.Le concert. IMDb.
- 16.Tusen ganger god natt. IMDb.
- 17.Amen. IMDb.
- 18.Va, vis et deviens. IMDb.
- 19.Indigènes. IMDb.
- 20.Le premier cri. IMDb.
- 21.Human. IMDb.
References
Citations
References
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General referenceinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q2659446: Armand AmarWikimedia Foundation
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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