HarrisonParrott and Polyarts are thrilled to announce the global classical management of French composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat. Revered for his extraordinary career as a composer of film music, he has created original scores for over 130 films and received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, three César Awards, two Golden Globes, two GRAMMY awards and numerous other nominations and distinctions. Desplat has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, George Clooney, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig, Terence Malick, Roman Polanski, Jacques Audiard, Wim Wenders and Guillermo del Toro… 

As a conductor of his own works in concert, Desplat has regularly worked with orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Wiener Symphoniker, and in prestigious venues such as Barbican, Wiener Musikverein, Paris Philharmonie and Radio France, with future performances to be announced. 

In recent seasons, he has composed new works for Lang Lang, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Emmanuel Pahud, the latter performing his Pelléas et Mélisande, a symphonie concertante for flute and orchestra (which was also later released on Warner Classics with Orchestre National de France). In 2020, his first opera En Silence was premiered in Luxembourg, Paris and Japan, with a libretto and staging by director-musician and long-term artistic partner, Solrey. In 2021, Desplat collaborated with the choreographer Alan Lucian Øyen for a new work The American Moth which was commissioned by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Theater and Concert Hall Taipei, The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and premiered at Bergen International Festival. His most recent staged work, another collaboration with Øyen, was premiered by Norwegian National Ballet at Norwegian Opera in 2023.

Jasper Parrott says: ​“We feel most privileged to be working with Alexandre, an artist of such huge talent and calibre, ranging through his mythic film scores but also in his symphonic works and as a conductor. We are excited to be able to work together with him to develop collaborations with top level orchestras and institutions around the world as well as with great international soloists.”