Laurent Petitgirard

Laurent Petitgirard is a French contemporary composer known for his orchestral works and his numerous scores for TV and film. He is also a highly respected conductor and has worked with several major orchestras in France and abroad including the Orchestre Colonne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, and the Utah Symphony. He was born in Paris in 1950 to a musical family, and he showed an interest in music from a very young age. At three years old, he began learning the piano from his father Serge Petitgirard, and when he was seven, he started to study composition with...