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Yann Tiersen
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Film & TV
Brest, France
Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments: primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers and the violin, but also instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano,…
Known for
- Yann Tiersen Piano Day 20252025
- Yann Tiersen Passengers: Tempelhof Airport — Self2023
- Yann Tiersen | Kerber - The film — Self2021
- The Crossing — Self2005
- Victoires de la musique — Self1985
- German Film Award — Self1951
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Key facts
- Born
- Yann Pierre Tiersen , ( 1970-06-23 ) 23 June 1970 (age 55) , Brest , Brittany, France
- Genres
- Minimal rock avant-garde rock post-rock folk rock bal-musette
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Piano violin piano accordion electric guitar toy piano vocals
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Labels
- Sine Terra Firma Ici, d'ailleurs... EMI Virgin Mute ANTI-
- Website
- yanntiersen .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Yann
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Brest
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Languages spoken
- Breton
- Field of work
- electric guitar
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.yanntiersen.com
- Image
- Yann Tiersen 4 2.png
- Residence
- Ouessant
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- name in native language
- Yann Tiersen
- Commons category
- Yann Tiersen
- date of birth
- 1970-06-23
- birth name
- Yann Pierre Tiersen
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- Yann Tiersen
- location of formation
- Brest
- P12749
- West Nile virus
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- social media followers
- 305000
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Yann Tiersen
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
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Encyclopedic overview
Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer from Brittany. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken for a soundtrack composer; he himself states that "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background," but his real focus is on touring and recording studio albums, which are often used for film soundtracks. Tracks taken from his first three studio albums were used for the soundtrack of the 2001 French film Amélie.
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