- Born
in Neuilly sur Seine (France), a French and Swiss
national, film director Georges Gachot has been
directing music documentaries since 1990.
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- He
left Paris at the age of 18 for Switzerland where he
simultaneously studied electrical engineer at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Diploma
in 1988 with specializing: Acoustics, Automatic
Control Technology and Applied Digital Information
Processing) and devoted himself to his passion for
piano and musicology. In 1985, he was acting in
adverts and institutional films before working for the
music label Naxos visualizing whole music works from
the great classical music repertoire. He was then
commissioned by various TV channels (ZDF, BR...) and
European producer to direct films such as portraits of
composers and interpreters like Pinchas Zukerman,
Grace Bumbry, Claude Debussy, Rodion Schschedrin,
Maxim Vengerov or Hermann Prey.
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- 1996,
he began to produce his own films some of which where
distributed also in cinemas. He received the
prestigious "Prix Italia" for his portrait of
Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich in 2002 "Evening
Talks".
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- Georges
Gachot has been interested in Cambodia since 1996 and
has directed 4 documentary films about the
humanitarian works of the paediatrician and cellist
Beat Richner and his childrens hopitals Kantha Bopha.
In 2005, he tackles for the first time a subject other
than classical music in his film on Brazilian singer
Maria Bethânia "Musica é perfume". His
love for Brazilian music brought him to produce 2010
RIO SONATA an impressionistic musical portrait of
singer Nana Caymmi and he is preparing a new one to
complete his Brazilian trilogy.
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- Have
a look at his filmography.
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- Special:
Décès
du chef opérateur Matthias
Kälin
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